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Post by alison on Dec 20, 2016 17:15:50 GMT
I've got a decent handful ...
London:
London Coliseum - Sunset Boulevard
Old Vic - Groundhog Day
New London - School of Rock
Charing Cross - Ragtime
Phoenix - Guys and Dolls
Regional:
New Wimbledon - Keep Dancing
Wales Millennium Centre - Only the Brave
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Post by duncan on Dec 20, 2016 18:44:48 GMT
Festival Theatre - James 1, James II, James III
Festival Studio - Moonlight and Magnolias
Citizens - Endgame, Get Carter, trainspotting
Big Belly - Captured
Pleasance Above - The Mission
Prince of Wales - Book of Mormon
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Post by schuttep on Dec 20, 2016 21:32:16 GMT
Having been a theatregoer since 1974 I usually don't get too many, but this year was:
Lowry Lyric, Manchester: The Girls
Park 90, London: Hello Norma Jeane
Wilton's Music Hall, London: All That Fall
Bristol Old Vic: Long Day's Journey Into Night
St Paul's Church, London: Godspell
Arcola, London: Kenny Morgan
The Bunker, London: Muted.
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Post by d'James on Dec 20, 2016 22:07:26 GMT
Oh yes, that's true, it was my first visit to the Park 90 for that very same play (which was really bad by the way).
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Post by Marwood on Dec 20, 2016 22:37:12 GMT
London:
The Coliseum (Sunset Boulevard)
Apollo (Nell Gwynn)
The Globe (Macbeth)
Royal Opera House (Pet Shop Boys, Inner Sanctum)
Dublin:
Abbey Theatre (Cyprus Avenue)
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Post by Mark on Dec 20, 2016 23:29:19 GMT
London
Hampstead Theatre - #IHO
The New Union - Soho Cinders
NYC
Second Stage - Dear Evan Hansen
Jacobs - The Color Purple
Studio 54 - She Loves Me
Sydney
Theatre Royal - Ghost
Johannesburg
Pieter Toerien Theatre - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2016 9:51:38 GMT
Antarctica
Scott Memorial Theatre (Holiday on Ice)
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Post by schuttep on Dec 21, 2016 10:53:28 GMT
I used to go to the Charing Cross when it was The Players but the new layout made this seem like a totally different space. I've been to both the Players and Charing Cross theatres but the layout seems the same to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2016 22:42:46 GMT
I used to go to the Charing Cross when it was The Players but the new layout made this seem like a totally different space. I've been to both the Players and Charing Cross theatres but the layout seems the same to me. I was thinking of the Players in the mid 70s - I have slept a lot since then so maybe all that sleep distorted my view. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2016 10:32:08 GMT
Noël Coward: Half A Sixpence
Arts Theatre: American Idiot
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2016 10:45:04 GMT
It was refurbished in 2002, with new seats and a slightly different layout - still the two blocks, but slightly fewer seats per row and extra, flexible rows at the front. The stage can be extended out, which does make the place feel different. That may be what you mean, buddyvlc? Probably - I don't remember it being raked before. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2016 11:02:34 GMT
I went to the Old Vic for the first time in about 10 years (to my shame given it is very close)
London: Union Theatre (just before the move, so I can count it again this year!)
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Post by boybooshka on Dec 22, 2016 11:52:25 GMT
A few this Year.
LONDON
Vaudeville - Hand to God
Wyndham's - Hangmen
King's Cross Theatre - In The Heights / Lazarus
Old Vic - Groundhog Day
MANCHESTER (Home)
Bandit, Mugger& Thief - The Lonely Walk Home
Hope Mill Theatre - Parade
OTHER REGIONAL
Birmingham Rep - The Exorcist
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Post by Jan on Dec 22, 2016 13:49:19 GMT
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich - Midsummer Night's Dream
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 0:20:28 GMT
King's Cross Theatre - In The Heights and Lazarus
Criterion Theatre - The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
Apollo Theatre - Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Menier Chocolate Factory - Into The Woods
The Old Vic - Groundhog Day
Found111 - Unfaithful
Noel Coward Theatre - Half A Sixpence
Trafalgar Studios - Vanities
St James Theatre - The Last 5 Years
Royal Albert Hall - Cirque Du Soleil
Hmmmm... and I think that's it. Don't have my tickets with me at the moment so I can't check if I'm forgetting something...
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Post by d'James on Dec 24, 2016 0:23:11 GMT
I really like this thread. Maybe we can have a similar ongoing one throughout 2017 so we can 'review' any new Theatres we go to along the way.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 0:42:21 GMT
Oh, and the Phoenix Theatre maybe. Can't remember if I saw Bend It in 2015 or 2016...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2016 1:36:21 GMT
I forgot the Savoy Theatre! What a lovely venue. Saw Guys & Dolls and Funny Girl there.
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Post by moelhywel on Dec 26, 2016 11:27:32 GMT
My only new Theatre this year was in Paris, Théâtre Châtelet for New York City Ballet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2016 12:28:43 GMT
It's been a year full of new theatres for myself, which I always enjoy.
London:
London Palladium - Cats
Aldwych - Beautiful
Noel Coward - Mrs Henderson Presents
Southwark Playhouse - The Toxic Avenger
Old Vic - Groundhog Day
Vaudeville - Hand to God
Criterion - The Comedy About a Bank Robbery
Wyndham's - People, Places & Things
Shakespeare's Globe - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Playhouse - 1984
Palace - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
New York:
Radio City Music Hall - Christmas Spectacular
Bernard B. Jacobs - The Color Purple
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 13:04:05 GMT
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2017/mark-shentons-top-6-uk-theatres-cant-wait-visit/Three of these are amongst my favourites: the Tobacco Factory, the Yard, and The Other Place. The other three I've also never visited but have seen some of their work elsewhere: New Diorama, HOME, and Camden People's Theatre. I think he hits the nail on the head when he says that the more regularly you attend your preferred theatres, the harder it is to pay proper attention to the others! I think the answer is to cut all the duty or worthy visits and just follow your nose. Don't worry about what you might be missing but seek out what might be most exceptional or extraordinary in some way.
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Post by lynette on Oct 6, 2017 15:49:00 GMT
The Other Place in Stratford ? Has great potential, Lovely foyer and little bar. And of course just opposite the river.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 18:38:56 GMT
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2017/mark-shentons-top-6-uk-theatres-cant-wait-visit/Three of these are amongst my favourites: the Tobacco Factory, the Yard, and The Other Place. The other three I've also never visited but have seen some of their work elsewhere: New Diorama, HOME, and Camden People's Theatre. I think he hits the nail on the head when he says that the more regularly you attend your preferred theatres, the harder it is to pay proper attention to the others! I think the answer is to cut all the duty or worthy visits and just follow your nose. Don't worry about what you might be missing but seek out what might be most exceptional or extraordinary in some way. The only one I don't know is The Yard. The New Diorama has a great 'feel' as a theatre, confidently out of place in the middle of a posh development. CPT has a low rent bohemian vibe, perfectly in tune with its programme. Home is the sort of theatre that Manchester needed, cosmopolitan and bursting with life. |
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