The 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM1. National Youth Theatre Rep Company Every year, the National Youth Theatre recruits 15 of its members, aged 18-25, to form a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMLavatories in theatres – or rather lack of them. It’s one of my favourite topics and I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve ranted about woeful provision, especially for women. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDarren Hart has just completed a run at Hackney Empire in Sleeping Beauty. He started out in youth theatre at Theatre Royal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIs one of your new year resolutions to read more books about whatever aspect of the theatre industry you’re involved in or want to be? If not, then perhaps it should be. Whatever your spec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSapphire Joy is a London-based actor working in television, film, stage and radio. She trained at Rose Buford College of Theatre and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMRobin Hood at Egg Theatre, Bath. Photo: Nick Spratling. It’s that time of year again. It’s customary for critics and others who purport to have some kind of overview to look back…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAnnus horribilis it may have been but 2016 has been a good year for youth theatre. There’s been some interesting work by actors in training too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMCruise ships are big business, and the benefit to the entertainment industries is clear. Every cruise employs entertainers and technical crew, and many have full-size theatres in which they …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMImaginative puppetry usually works wonders on a very young audience. The First Hippo on the Moon is full of puppets. The jungle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMJordan Productions has evidently invested in casting this year. The result is a smooth, traditional show with lots of actors who know
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMWhat exactly do we expect when we go to the theatre? Something compelling, entertaining, thoughtful or moving to watch and listen to, obviously. But what about the physical surroundings of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIt’s a balancing act, creating a pantomime that is both traditional and fresh, but this fine Aladdin achieves it. The Chinese dragon
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMCruise ships are big business, and the benefit to the entertainment industries is clear. Every cruise employs entertainers and technical crew, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAs you’d expect from Qdos this is a pantomime which thinks big. Its real star is Ceri Dupree’s glittering beautiful outfits as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMIt’s hard to find a focal point in Theatre Royal Margate’s Peter Pan. While it strives to be traditional, it lacks a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMhttp://www.stagefaves.com/shows/she-loves-me/
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMKiruna Stamell, who has dwarfism and is around 3ft tall, arrived in Britain from her native Australia in 1999. Since then she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMA sparky tap dance round the cauldron by Hollie Cassar as Spite and a wittily well written love duet from Terrence Frisch
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMColour, movement, smiles, clear story telling, visual surprises and a narrative so iconically familiar that almost everyone in the audience can recite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMYes, it’s that time of year. Last week I saw my first two 2016 pantomimes – Dick Whittington at the Marlowe Theatre (Evolution Pantomimes) and Sleeping Beauty at Hackney Empire. The form…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSEDOS (Stock Exchange Drama and Operatic Society, long since open to people from all walks of life across London) never disappoints. Their Candide – with a thirteen piece band – certainl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:01AMAn Equity-registered fight director, Roger Bartlett’s credits include Treasure Island, Richard III and Julius Caesar for Iris Theatre, African Gothic at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMStage schools are often unfairly stereotyped by the media and teaching unions as places where the spoiled brats of pushy parents receive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMLast week I went to TheatreCraft 2016, the eleventh annual “beyond the stage” careers event which routinely attracts over 1000 people, most of them young. This time it was based at the W…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMYou know you’re winning with an early years show when the young children in the audience call out in cheerful, uninvited vociferous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMThe New Oxford Shakespeare the Complete Works has just arrived and it has set me reminiscing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMGrace Lancaster graduated from the actor musicianship course at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance this year. She regularly gigs as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI’ve been thinking about Shakespeare. Not unusual. I probably think about him at least once every two minutes as chaps are supposed to do about … but never mind that. I used to t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMIf you want to act professionally then it’s important to know why you do. Otherwise you won’t be able to convince the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMLast week I was variously accused (good old Twitter) of marginalising, undermining, undervaluing and failing to respect technical theatre professionals in general and stage managers in…
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