Tag: entertainment
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How do musicals symbolize our national identity?
Tuesday 2nd July 2024
blogGrace Barnes’s excellent new book is both provocative and illuminating
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What is the history of British drag?
Saturday 30th September 2023
blogJacob Bloomfield’s excellent new book illuminates the subject in all its wonderf…
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Patriots, Noël Coward Theatre
Tuesday 6th June 2023
reviewPeter Morgan’s award-winning story of Putin’s triumph is vivid, but lacks real c…
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Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre Since the Second World War
Friday 29th January 2021
blogYesterday, my latest book was published in paperback.
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Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre 1940–2015
Thursday 12th December 2019
blogThis time, I have taken a critical look at about 75 years of British theatre his…
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Max Stafford-Clark on British theatre
Tuesday 5th September 2017
blogQuote of the day: “Theatre is veering towards entertainment rather than to provo…
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Mark Fisher on critics
Friday 8th July 2016
blogQuote of the day: “Every critic is a performer.”
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Repeat performance: a new crisis? (New Writing 2012)
Wednesday 1st May 2013
writingIn the YouTube video of ‘Read All About It’ a little boy smashes up his step sis…
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On London Road
Sunday 17th April 2011
blogOver the past three weeks, several journalists and commentators have tried reall…
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