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Entries by Carl Woodward
Burlesque: The Musical – Don’t Shoot The Messenger
Burlesque Summer
Wallflower at the Orgy
The Burlesque The Musical train will hit the wall
Sweeney Todd
Blood on the boil
Burlesque The Musical: naked capitalism and fraud *allegedly
Burlesque the Musical producers spin “postponement” while freelancers pay the price
The Trouble With Burlesque
This week, I had to laugh stumbling on Cher’s ambivalence about the movie musical Burlesque: “I drove all of them crazy,” she told the Irish Independent in 2010, admitting the character she played “wasn’t exactly who she turned out to be on screen.” Writer-director Steven Antin, hearing she was wavering, tracked her down at Sony’s offices — […]
Here’s Your Definitive Guide to Edinburgh Fringe 2026 (you’re welcome)
The finest shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Allegedly.
Todrick Hall: “If people come away from the process of putting on a musical feeling traumatised, then I don’t think it’s worth it.”
Post-Burlesque, the multi-hyphenate discusses the tumultuous musical, his fight for credit and his new show Midnight
rewrite the stars
A reflection on the star-ratting economy
RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Winner Lily Dyble: “The landscape’s really hard right now. And who gets to do it?”
Lily Dyble has won this year’s Royal Theatrical Support Trust Sir Peter Hall Director Award.