The Wicked Stage: Best “New” Musical and other surprises from Olivier Awards 2013
The Olivier Awards are always an exciting time for the theatre community and there was great anticipation as ITV were showing highlights of the award ceremony...
Sarah Green
The Wicked Stage: Why is A Chorus Line a singular sensation?
A Chorus Line makes a triumphant return to the West End for the first time since it premiered in the UK in the late seventies, which ties in with research I h...
The Wicked Stage: The Pretty Women of Musicals
Recently I read a book by Stacy Woolf documenting the feminist history of the musical (Changed For Good: A feminist history of the Broadway musical, 2011: Oxf...
The Wicked Stage: A new British show! So why aren’t we dancing for joy?
This week was the London opening of Loserville. A brand new home-grown musical, it seemed like it could've been the show everyone had been waiting for. So why...
The Wicked Stage: Can musicals be used as tools for social change?
Last year I wrote a response to fellow writer Elinor Walpole’s article on the relevancy of musical theatre in today’s society. I argued that musicals didn’t n...
The Wicked Stage: Another Op’nin’, Another Show – A West End Round-Up
During my 10 months of writing this blog I have often wondered over the future and state of musicals and what it means for the genre. I and many people have com...
Sarah Green
Sarah is a musical theatre graduate now studying for her Masters in theatre practice with hopes of going onto a PHD. She has been writing for A Younger Theatre since September 2011 on all things musical theatre related.