In this week’s issue of The Stage:
Tributes special: As the tribute market grows ever more competitive, we take a look at the acts working the circuit today, the impact of television on the business and the emergence of the tribute production show, while America’s top Elvis, Shawn Klush, explains its ongoing appeal. Matthew Hemley asks whether the BBC’s tribute talent show, The One and Only, did more harm than good, while showcase reviewers Mark Ritchie and Derek Smith choose the personal top ten tribute acts
Insight: Product placement has been given the go-ahead to appear in UK cinema, films for TV, sports broadcasts and light entertainment in less than two years. With TV on demnd services killing off scheduled advertising, Ben Dowell considers what this will mean for British commercial television and whether editorial integrity will be compromised in the process
Culture minister Margaret Hodge recently talked about the lack of high-ranking femalr talent in theatre. Richard Jordan examines changes that are already happening and argues that such comments may do more harm than good
Founder and artistic director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, Manuel Bagorro talks about putting on an arts festival in Zimbabwe’s troubled capital
Dear John: “I can ‘do’ several artists very well and I want to try the tribute market. Does it make more sense to work solo or to seek out a band?”
Actor and director Steven Berkoff tells Richard Brooks why he has chosen to stage the classic film On The Waterfront and why drama must deal with the burning issues
From the mean streets of Chicago to the haunted hallways of The Woman in White, Ruthie Henshall is as familiar to Theatreland as Lloyd Webber hits. She speaks to Nick Smurthwaite about her role in the new musical Marguerite
Vocal coach Zoe Tyler continues her exclusive review of BBC talent show I’d Do Anything
Seventy years after the death of the actor/writer/director Konstantin Stanislavski, Maria Hodson examines his impact on the acting profession
Backstage Focus: It takes 150 crew, 92 wagons and eight days to move the 800-tonne set of Afrika! Afrika!. Petrus Bertschinger visits the immense tented village and finds a slick technical operation with a vibrant African heart
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys bonded over a love of German electronica and, as Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark, helped usher in the synth sound of the eighties with a homemade machine. After some time out of the spotlight, they’re excited to be back, they tell Douglas McPherson
Plus all the usual news, reviews, national UK theatre listings and recruitment ads.
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