Andrew Wright is an award-winning director and choreographer, whose work has been staged worldwide. His current projects include Half a Sixpence and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMFounded in 1971 by Jackie Palmer (who died last year aged 95) and her daughter Marylyn, the school has occupied various premises in and around High Wycombe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMOliver Ford Davies is an unusual actor because he’s also an accomplished academic – that makes him a pretty cerebral blend of practical and theoretical. His latest book Sha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNeed more proof that drama transforms young lives? I think most of us are already convinced but if you need evidence to support an argument with the unenlightened then I’ve seen three …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMKaty Lipson, 32, started Aria Entertainment in 2012 having put on musical theatre shows since she was 19. Aria’s productions currently include
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMI review a lot of professional theatre. I also cover amateur shows, including student ones. Regularly doing both throws up some thorny problems.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAmy Trigg was the first wheelchair user to graduate from a performance course at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and recently appeared
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMI reviewed Changeling Theatre’s rather good Hamlet last week in the ruins of the old Garrison Church at Woolwich. I really liked the production and it is my fervent hope that we shall soon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThe stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s What the Ladyird Heard has benefited from a great deal of development work since its first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMLast week I saw The Wind in the Willows at the Palladium on press night. Did I see the same show as, for example, Dominic Cavendish, Ann Treneman and Michael Billington? Apparently not.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMChloe Poulter is head of wigs and make-up at Opera Holland Park. Starting her working career at the age of 14 in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhile universities have traditionally offered more academic programmes compared with more practical training at drama schools, the lines between different institutions are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIt happens every year so I really shouldn’t be surprised. The Edinburgh Fringe programme drops (like an old fashioned telephone directory) on the mat and I’m bowled over by the eclectici…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMOnce the decision has been made to try to break into the performing arts, 16 to 18-year-olds can choose from a variety
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMJulian Glover is Julius Caesar, Lynn Farleigh is Calpurnia and John Hartoch is Cinna the Poet. Everyone else in the cast of Bristol Old Vic’s current production of Julius Caesar is a third…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMOf course I can understand why the UK’s major drama schools feel they need some kind of communal (united?) voice. They’ve lost National Council of Drama School Training which merged wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMatthieu Bellon-Leloup is a French-born, Brighton-based theatre director who teaches at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. He and the company
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFor the second year, students from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School are performing at its namesake venue with a cast of professional
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe British are, as ever, mad, I reflected as I gathered with a large group of blanket carrying stalwarts at Coolings Garden Centre near Bromley last week for the opening performance of Illy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMJeni Boyns is a secondary school drama teacher in Medway, Kent. She is on the committee of Gillingham Dramatic Society which mounts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMRichard Knowles Organisation: Chichester Festival Theatre Training: University of Hull CV: West Yorkshire Playhouse working with young people, youth theatre, community groups,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSome theatrically inclined school leavers are ready for drama school. Others are not. So how can or should such a young person – or an older one seeking an opportunity to dip a toe in the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIn response to government thinking on the length of degree courses, Susan Elkin says despite misgivings drama schools should reconsider their one-size-fits-all approach.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIf you want to train as an opera singer, Britain seems a good place to be based. In the 2017 listing by subject, QS World University Rankings placed Juilliard School in New York first in the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTake learning how to read play scripts imaginatively and intelligently. Robert Knopf’s Script Analysis for Theatre (Bloomsbury) has masses of advice for theatre students and professionals …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn response to government thinking on the length of degree courses, Susan Elkin says despite misgivings drama schools should reconsider their one-size-fits-all
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMJack West, 23, who trained as an actor at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, is the writer for Lago Theatre, a company
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHats off to amateur theatre and all who take part in it. There’s so much good work out there and it rarely gets the recognition it deserves – and I can only suppose that people who sneer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIf you want to train as an opera singer, Britain seems a good place to be based. In the 2017 listing by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI think the division usually made between musical theatre and opera – with the implication that the former is inferior to the latter – is utterly spurious. It is all musical theatre. Ope…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMNo student should apply to audition for a college place he or she has no intention of accepting. It’s a waste of everyone’s time, effort and money. And it’s very rude.
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