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Feature: Stage One – Funding the future producers

April 8, 2014 Harriet Stevens #artsfunding, Acting, Arts Funding, Avenue Q, David Hutchinson, Fringe, Funding, Jersey Boys, LIPA, Producer, Regional Theatre, Stage One, Stephen McGill, The Pyjama Game, Theatre, West End, West End Producer, Westendproducer

Last month, Stage One, a charity funding body that supports the work of emerging theatre producers, announced the latest recipients

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Blogs The Wicked Stage 

The Wicked Stage: are talent shows the way forward for new musical theatre writing?

June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 Sarah Green Britain's Got Talent, Cats, Chasing the Dream, Danny Davies, Hadley Fraser, Laura Tisdall, Loserville, Mamma Mia, Matthew Hamley, Musical, Pete Gallagher, Simon Cowell, Soho Theatre, The Stage, Twitter, Westendproducer, X Factor

I have written before about the lack of new writing and especially of shows for the younger generation. However, with

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Blogs The Wicked Stage 

The Wicked Stage: Is it fair to attack fans of musicals?

January 29, 2013January 29, 2013 Sarah Green David Sexton, les miserables, Lyn Gardner, Musical Theatre, Musicals, Sexton, Theatre, Westendproducer

Most of the musical theatre community was shocked and appalled by David Sexton’s recent article in which he attacked not

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Blogs The Wicked Stage 

The Wicked Stage: The future of musical theatre casting

July 22, 2012July 24, 2012 Sarah Green Alex Gaumond, Emily Carey, Gemma Lowry Hamilton, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver Tompsett, SFATS, Superstar, talent shows, The Stage, Westendproducer

In the past two weeks the process of casting in musical theatre has been well and truly turned on its

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Dance Reviews Theatre West End 

Review: Search For A Twitter Star Live

July 11, 2012 Jack Thomas Aled Jones, David King, Gemma Lowy Hamilton, Louise Dearman, Lyric Theatre, Mike Dixon, Mike Wooster, Search For A Twitter Star, Theatre, Westendproducer

He’s the twitter sensation who drinks “too much dom”, has a “Lloyd Webber glove puppet”, sleeps in “Phantom pyjamas”, and

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Blogs The Wicked Stage 

The Wicked Stage: Strange thing mystifying

May 27, 2012May 27, 2012 Sarah Green Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anne Vosser, Blood Brothers, Casting, celebrity casting, Chris Moyles, Gemma Lowry Hamilton, Jesus Christ Superstar, Louise Dearman, Matilda, Melanie Chisholm, Mike Dixon, Peter Polycarpou, reality TV shows, Theatre, Tim Minchin, Tim Rice, West End, Westendproducer

A Twitter storm has once more erupted around the use of celebrity casting for the Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour

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