Ticket Offer: £12 tickets to see The Machine at Manchester International Festival
Manchester International Festival - the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events - is back! Running from 4 – 21 July, this festival bring...
Hadley Fraser
The Wicked Stage: are talent shows the way forward for new musical theatre writing?
I have written before about the lack of new writing and especially of shows for the younger generation. However, with X Factor musicals and Britain's Got Tale...
The Wicked Stage: Emotional releases in musical theatre
Catharsis is a Greek word meaning ‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’. Aristotle explains catharsis as the "purging of the spirit of morbid and base ideas or emotio...
The Wicked Stage: How do we nurture the future of musicals?
Many will declare that there is in fact no problem with the West End - thousands upon thousands of us watch the shows and have a brilliant time. Sadly that ...