How do we get the word out – really out – about fringe theatre in general and pub theatres in particular. There’s cutting-edge work going on all the time at, for example, the Finboroug…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMIt’s unusual these days to sit in the theatre for more than a few minutes without the darkness and your concentration being disturbed by someone nearby flashing a mobile phone on. It’s i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMI used to review large numbers of graduating student showcases for The Stage. Then last year an editorial policy decision was made at the Stage not to cover them any more. So I didn’t go t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSo Ramps on the Moon is living up to its wonderfully optimistic name. It really is creating ramps – ways in – to fabulous, moon-like opportunities to talented people of all sorts. Bravo!…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMRejoice with me at the sheer breadth, energy and healthy eclecticism of it all – especially if you’re feeling gloomy about the arts and their future.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMScarlett Leigh Fawcett recently finished playing Dorothy in Trinity Theatre’s 2017 Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz. Having entered the industry as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSo it isn’t press night – because you were at another show then. You arrive at the box office and say politely: “Hello. My name’s Susan Elkin. There should be a press comp for me for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMKatherine Vernez Gray trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she received the gold medal in acting. She has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSusan Elkin chats to Justin Cooke, CEO of Digital Theatre. Digital Theatre offers access to films of live theatre, ballet, opera and classical concerts to individual subscribers and educatio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMI stand by everything I write in any review and will not make changes just because someone’s feelings may be a bit bruised. In fact I’m not prepared even to discuss it. We’re all grown…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhen school groups go to the theatre to watch dramatised versions of the novels on the curriculum, there is a problem: English
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSo how on earth do greedy producers justify their obscene top ticket prices? Last week we heard that the best tickets for Hamilton are now £250 each. Okay, so I know you can sit elsewhere i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMLGBTQ+ activist Jamie Fletcher, who is transgender, is a film and theatre director and also a musician. She creates multidisciplinary queer work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMChris Cuming, who teaches at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Rose Bruford College, recently choreographed the musical Yank!
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe RSC provide resources, support, workshops and more to help children to start Shakespeare earlier, do it on their feet and see it live as set out in the RSC’s 2006 Manifesto, Stand Up F…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIn a vibrant, growing but overcrowded industry, which is also swamped with good young people desperate to be part of it, the ability to create work independently has never mattered more.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAre you a non-drama student who has decided that a theatre career is for you? Are you an actor looking for focused
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMLast Thursday [while much of the UK was still on holiday], I attended the press conference at which Michelle Terry revealed her first season at The Globe. And the dynamics in the room were f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM“It keeps a show fresh if you’re innovative, but it’s no good setting out to be ‘different’ for the sake of it. It’s essential that you remain true to your character and the situ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMatthew Campling’s 10th produced play, The Secondary Victim, which recently had a four week run at the Park Theatre, was inspired by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PMJohn-Jackson Almond, the new director of the Assembly Hall Theatre, has clearly got the measure of what works in Tunbridge Wells. While
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMTrinity Theatre artistic director John Martin negotiated for four years for the rights to John Kane’s lovely version of The Wizard of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMChildren – for the most part, don’t find filth and innuendo funny even if they understand it. Actually, neither do I if it’s there simply because it’s smutty. A joke has to be really…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMEbony Feare trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and has worked in theatre, television and radio since graduating. She is currently
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMA trumpet playing, narcoleptic good fairy (Nicola Bryan) sets the tone for Chatham’s traditional yet fresh pantomime. It’s a treat, featuring delightful
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMNow this is how you produce a decent local panto on a very low budget. With a cast of eight and a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMThe innate glitziness of the Orchard Theatre – with its strips of multicoloured, flashing neon lights around the auditorium – makes it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMIf you’re looking for a present, bound to make your beloved theatre person giggle all Christmas morning, then West End Producer’s shiny new book is the obvious 2017 choice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas at the end of this year’s Churchill Theatre panto is one of the funniest sequences
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMThe world’s largest Shakespeare Festival ends this week after 292 performance nights in theatres all over the country. I refer, of course, to Shakespeare Schools Foundation which, every ye…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe idea of four modern-ish children improvising a story is not particularly original but it works splendidly in Mike Kenny’s adapatation of The Snow Queen for a cast of four.
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