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October
Firstly, thank you to everyone who has been in contact to suggest improvements. We're always grateful for these pointers, and will continue to include them if we can. Thank you too, to those of you who have pointed out errors or missing reviews. Again, it's really helpful, and we're always grateful to add or change anything you spot.
We're continuing, as always, to enter the archive, which will make TR fully searchable. Whilst in the process, I looked up Maggie Smith after the sad news of her death, and read the reviews of 'Virginia' by Edna O'Brien in 1981. Reading Michael Billington's review in the Guardian reminded me what a great actress she was. A national treasure indeed.
As always, do let me have any comments or suggestions at editor@theatrerecord.com
Tue 03 Sep 2024
September
As you'll see, the August listings have been published.
There are 3 issues as normal for August - issue 8 including all the London and regional productions (only 24 this time), and the Edinburgh fringe and International issues. Of a total of 1114 Edinburgh theatre listings, we managed to publish reviews on 981 of them. We are continuing to add them daily, but it is coming to an end now.
To have so much talent there, showing it all off to the world, The Edinburgh Festivals are one of the greatest celebrations of arts and culture on the planet. Reading all the information on the Ed fringe and International websites, they really are global events. From it's start in 1947, when 8 theatre groups performed to now is wonderful to see.
As things will be slightly less busy for us here at TR in September, we'll continue to make improvements to the site and continue with entering the archive, so it's fully searchable.
As always, do let me have any comments or suggestions at editor@theatrerecord.com
Fri 02 Aug 2024
August
This month is mostly given over to the Edinburgh Festivals and you'll see the reviews appear in purple on the 'latest production reviews' page. They will appear in a separate issue as usual, once all the reviews are in. The first 2 have just gone on, and we'll see if we can match last year's entries - 590 productions with 1328 reviews.
Speaking of totals, looking at the entries since 2022 when we started the new database, we've listed 12,318 actors, 13,695 creatives, and listed 15,513 reviews. We've entered reviews from 543 different theatre venues with 53 different reviewers. We currently have 5738 productions listed and in total there have been 21,228 productions on the listings page. The most popular actress has been Blythe Jandoo and the most poplular actor has been Sam Stopford.
We're also continuing to improve the press contact details on the 'What's On' page as well as continuing to enter the archive to improve the search facility. In typing up 1985 I've been entering some names including Ralph Fiennes, and his first stage debut as Curio in Twelfth Night at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London. 1985 and 1986 should be searchable within the month.
As always, please do get in touch if you have any comments or suggestions.