No 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAnne Mayer is an American who came to London in 1966. Since then she has worked across all the arts in press
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSome theatrically inclined school leavers are ready for drama school. Others are not. So how can or should such a young person
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe overlaps between theatre and education are many and various. Whenever I sit in on someone’s rehearsal and watch a director at work with a group of actors, I notice the similarity to cl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThese are just some of the interesting performing arts books which have winged their way to my desk in recent weeks.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMKinny Gardner, 58, who is hard of hearing, studied classical ballet at the Martha Graham School. He has featured in London’s West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIf you want to stay employed in this capricious industry, you need as many skills as you can get. It’s a mantra
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI am fascinated by signing. When I watch BSL in action I love the balletic fluidity of it. I find it arrestingly theatrical too. Imagine my excitement, then, at seeing not one, but two, show…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMA really good summer school can be like drama school in miniature. It may not offer the in-depth training of a two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIntegrated signing ensures that every child present understands every word and nuance of Oliver in the Overworld. Krazy Kat’s show takes the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMI caught up with La La Land on a recent long-haul flight. It’s a pleasant enough film with some interesting performances although I can’t for the life of me see why it won all those Osca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThis spin off from the popular CBeebies show Sarah and Duck walks a fine line between being appropriately gentle and just plain
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PMBilingual actor Maria Hildebrand trained at Drama Studio London. She has played roles as diverse as Mother Theresa and the mother of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMRobin Paley Yorke, 24, has been sight impaired in one eye since an accident when he was 17. He trained on Rose
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAt last. The government has announced that universities and other higher education institutions must offer two year year degrees.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFormer director, Lucy Kerbel has – commendably – turned gender equality in the theatre industry into her life mission. First came her enlightening 100 Plays for Women. Now we have All C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMCreating your own work is a proven way of breaking into this competitive industry. Young theatremakers and a leading arts consultant tell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMSchool leavers who desperately want to work in the performing arts are sometimes advised by teachers and careers counsellors – and encouraged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMRoss, 21 who comes from Belfast, teamed up with fellow students Tom Berkeley, Alex Coppola and Jessica Alade after they all began training on GSA’s Acting course. By Christmas 2014 they’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTanya Holt’s one woman show Cautionary Tales for Daughters toured last year and completed a run at Jermyn Street Theatre in January.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMClad in simple brown vests, fawn shorts and turquoise socks, five actors run, freeze, and speak chorally with finely nuanced precision as the story unfolds.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMDrama Studio London students at work. DSL’s new degree course includes teaching about arts funding and actor’s finances. Every drama school graduate needs to know exactly h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJohn Martin is artistic director of Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, a 291-seat theatre/arts centre contained within a Decimus Burton converted church,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAs an actor who soon realised that she preferred discussing plays to appearing in them, Jacqui Hanlon, director of education at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLast week two unrelated things happened to make me think hard and afresh about theatre reviewing – of which, of course, I do a great deal.The post Is theatre reviewing teachable? appeared …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMMichael Volpe is the director of Opera Holland Park but his background is unusual. He spoke to Susan Elkin.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMPoor SATS results are putting pressure on a headteacher’s job - a new play examines the issues and Susan Elkin meets the playwright.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAnnemarie Lewis Thomas is composer, musical director and founder principal of Musical Theatre Academy. MTA has just won the Stage School of the Year (2017) award for the second time. She cha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMChildren don’t read enough. They have too little experience of story – through books, theatre or whatever. It leads to diminished imaginative capacity, short concentration …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMEast Asian actor Eugenia Low has just finished playing Ariel in The Tempest at the Cockpit Theatre, having studied under and worked
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe English Folk Dance and Song Society and Cecil Sharp House have long occupied a special place in my heart. My father, Ken Hillyer, led The Southerners band and in the 1960s and 70s they p…
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