Next week’s issue of The Stage, cover date December 18, will be a bumper-sized Christmas double issue. There will be no publication the following week.
A quick guide to some of the features to be found in next week’s bumper issue:
Interviews with Hollywood’s newest pantomime star, Steve Guttenberg, Lord Attenborough and Nick Starr, executive director of the National Theatre
Agony uncle John Byrne delivers a Christmas message on performing through the credit crunch
We provide a guide to showbiz charities for those who want to give or receive
We look at the South African theatre company bringing panto to Johannesburg
We reveal how shopping malls are providing a new market for short-form Christmas shows
We go behind the scenes at the mother of all community shows, the Thursford Christmas Spectacular
We look at the growth of DIY records and ways in which performers can gain success without needing the big record companies
Our writers take a look at how 2008 has treated regional and London theatre, light ent and broadcasting, together with The Stage’s own year.
Advice from our critics on which television, radio and podcast programmes, books and CDs to catch over the festive season
And a lot more besides…
The Christmas edition of The Stage will cost £2.00 and will be available from your usual outlets.
The following issue (back at the regular price of £1.40) will be available a day earlier than normal, with a cover date of Wednesday December 31 instead of our usual Thursday publication. (Advertisers please note: your deadlines will change accordingly!)
This will be the issue in which we publish The Stage 100, our annual list of the most powerful people in the performing arts world.
Everybody at The Stage would like to wish our readers a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
