This has been a double deja vu week. I was both appalled and unsurprised to read Matthew Xia and Selina Thompson’s accounts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMThis week, I have two plays in rehearsal: one in my motherland and one in my fatherland. I can’t stop pinching myself,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMy first paid acting gig was a week at the Royal Court Theatre in London. It was a rehearsed reading of a knockout new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhat a moment to be living through. Whitney sang it, now we’re seeing it: children are the future. After almost a year
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEverybody’s talking about self-taping. Equity has led the cover of its summer magazine with a handy guide of how-tos; my Facebook feed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt has been an eventful six months. So much so I can’t quite believe it has actually been six months. But as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI’m concerned by the gulf that exists between why most of us want to work in the arts, and what the industry
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:40AMNext week, Act for Change hosts its third major event. Our focus this time is on training – the routes that can
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhat the hell am I doing? I have found myself asking that question with increasing regularity. Not that I am literally unaware
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMy name is Stephanie and I am a pregnant actor. I make this declaration because I haven’t been able to get much
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn an effort to silence the primal scream of the UK in social and political meltdown, I have been busying myself these
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWow. 2016 has really got its claws in, hasn’t it? I’m writing this away from home, working with a group of young,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMYou will by now have noticed my predisposition to using a medical analogy. This has something to do with the guilt I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI’ve been thinking about change a lot of late. Or, more accurately, change is happening to me a lot. As David Bowie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMJust over a year ago, Act for Change monitored shows playing in a selection of regional theatres, subsidised London and West End
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMPossibly the highlight of my working life was the time Peter Brook (crass name-drop alert) came backstage to congratulate a company I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe deja vu on November 13 was grim. My husband had worked late. It was a long wait as he picked his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt’s been a busy news month for women in our industry. While I’m hesitant just to join in on my little drum,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI realised this week that acting is quite like Bikram yoga. A series of 26 held postures working strength, balance and flexibility
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMI’d like to open my first regular column for The Stage with a little disclosure: I have always been partial to an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMOne Friday, a good few years ago, my brother, at the time a very junior doctor, came home after a tough day
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