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  • Olivier Audience Award shortlist: four musicals and a horse

    Olivier Audience Award shortlist: four musicals and a horse

    9th February 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this

    I promised you a reminder to vote in the second round of the Olivier Awards' brand-new category, the Audience Award - so here it is.

    The winner of the Audience Award for Most Popular Long-Running Show of 2009 is determined by the votes of the general public - the first time an Olivier Award winner has been decided by anyone outside the Society of London Theatre.  The first round of voting...

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  • New Olivier Award celebrates the power of you

    New Olivier Award celebrates the power of you

    21st January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    This year's Laurence Olivier Awards will include a brand new category, the Audience Award, introduced to celebrate the nation's favourite long-running production of 2009.  Notice that I say 'the nation's favourite', not 'the Society of London Theatre's favourite'.  The nominees and eventual winner of the Audience Award will be decided by a public vote.

    Public opinion polls aren't exactly news, especially in Theatreland; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group make their...

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  • No excuses: theatre is affordable

    No excuses: theatre is affordable

    14th January 2010 | 3 comments | 2 people like this

    Hey, did you see Avatar?  Did you see it in 3D?  What about IMAX 3D?  What did you pay?  I paid £12.50, plus online booking fee, to see it in IMAX 3D (at the Odeon in Wimbledon, if anyone's asking), and I was just one of millions:  millions of people who have proven themselves willing to spend £12.50 or thereabouts on an evening's entertainment.

    If you're one of those millions, you...

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  • iTheatre not as “comprehensive” as it claims

    iTheatre not as “comprehensive” as it claims

    30th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    I can't contest the claim in the press release that iTheatre is "the first iPhone application dedicated to London theatres".  I am equally powerless to deny that the app features "reviews, seating plans, ticket availability and even mapping services".  But I will dispute to the death the assertion that it can keep users "up to date with all the latest shows" (my italics).

    iTheatre was developed by Ubinow Solutions for BestOfTheatre.co.uk,...

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Arts journalist Matt Boothman talks performance, playwriting and criticism from London's fringe, where theatre is both challenging and affordable.

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