I created the fortnightly “American Stages” column for The Stage in London in 2013 with the mandate to cover news of American theatre news that didn’t necessarily warrant a standalone story and wasn’t being widely covered in other UK media. It gave me the ongoing opportunity to mix commercial with not-for-profit, Broadway with regional, as I saw fit, all targeted primarily at a readership of theatre professionals in the UK. Beginning in October 2014, the column became a weekly feature. Given the relatively tricky formatting of the original pieces, this pages serves as an index that will take you to each column as it appears on The Stage’s website, and will be updated on a rolling (and somewhat erratic) basis.
Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon makes directing debut in New York, 6 February 2015
Proof that you don’t need a star to break even on Broadway, 30 January, 2015
Julie Taymor directing Anne Hathaway set to be this spring’s hot ticket, 23 January 2015
Ruth Wilson and Jake Gyllenhaal open Broadway premiere of Constellations, 16 January 2015
The Last Ship leads winter Broadway closures, 9 January 2015
The year ahead in US theatre, 19 December 2014
Matilda recoups its investment, 12 December 2014
Bradley Cooper opens in The Elephant Man, 5 December 2014
Sting tries to stop The Last Ship sinking, 28 November 2014
Glenn Close returns to Broadway after 20 years, 21 November 2o14
Up Here musical to premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, 14 November 2014
Holly Hunter and Martin Short return to New York theatre, 7 November 2014
Sting’s The Last Ship opens and Halloween on stage, 31 October 2014
Al Pacino to star in China Doll by David Mamet in 2015, 24 October 2014
Anna D Shapiro steps up at Steppenwolf and Doctor Zhivago musical heads for Broadway, 17 October 2014
Steve Martin’s new musical and America’s top ten plays, 26 September 2014
Broadway’s first female-penned play in two years, 12 September 2014
Is Broadway getting a new theatre?, 29 August 2014
A sneak preview of Broadway’s new season, 15 August 2014
Re-revivals and Icelandic oddities, 1 August 2014
Song catalogues continue to woo producers and bullets for Broadway shows, 18 July 2014
Les Mis reinvented, 4 July 2014
Chicago picks up the slack for Broadway’s summer lull, 20 June 2014
Californian premieres, busy Rees and Off-Off-Broadway finally hits Broadway, 6 June 2014
Blood, mud and magic of Shakespeare heads across the Atlantic, 23 May 2014
Irish revival, Lucille Lortel Awards and Abba goes Greek, 9 May 2014
Tony determinations kick off the awards season and God gets the theatre bug, 25 April 2014
Radcliffe on Broadway, King and I rumours and Carole King off stage, 11 April 2014
If/Then kicks off Tony Awards madness, 28 March 2014
Bryan Cranston plays the president, Randi Zuckerberg plays guitar, 14 March 2014
Disappearing clowns, prog-metal Sweeney Todd and The Bridges of Madison County, 28 February 2014
King Kong heads home, Hugh Jackman helms the Tonys, 14 February 2014
Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman and Fatboy Slim – the stars aline in New York, 31 January 2014
Ghostly appearances from Satchmo, Tupac Shakur and Patti LuPone, 17 January 2014
Hugh Jackman disappears from Houdini, Rebecca Hall makes Broadway debut, 3 January 2014
The Iceman Cometh (but not quite yet), unpaid interns and The Sound of Music, 20 December 2013
Punchdrunk’s new restaurant, Daniel Kitson and dinner with Alan Ayckbourn, 6 December 2013
Nelson’s quartet complete plus Broadway openers and closers, 22 November 2013
Bruce Norris returns, A Time To Kill dies and Idina Menzel flies back to Broadway, 8 November 2013
A costly Betrayal, Julie Taymor returns and new musical composers on Sesame Street, 25 October 2013
Orlando Bloom, Emma Thompson and the Donmar on Broadway, 11 October 2013
The House of Mouse, Shakespeare spoofs and Terminator 2 on stage, 27 September 2013
New York City Opera in trouble, Sondheim celebrated, 13 September 2013
