Last 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMNathaniel Wade, 21, was offered a drama school place upon leaving school in 2014, but didn’t feel ready. Instead, he has opted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM‘Tis the season … to be applying to drama school if working as a performing arts professional is your career plan. Well, on the assumption that you may be still at school or not long lef…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AMYvonne Stone studied puppetry at Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and has been making puppets and directing puppetry for more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHappy birthday, Marlowe Theatre, which is this month celebrating the first five years in its new venue. I attended an enjoyably upbeat celebratory gala concert (all proceeds to the new Creat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:35AMI’m always nervous when I’m about to make an entrance. Then came Cambridge and the opening night of the tour on 20 April in the Arts Theatre. I stood in the wings. It’s Sasha Reagan’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:06AMIt is less than a month since I wrote an article in which I argued for the winding up of Drama UK. I didn’t expect it to disappear round the U bend quite so quickly but it is now dead.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMInga Davis-Rutter trained at Arts Educational Schools London before reading music at York University and studying piano with Royal Academy of Music’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt’s gone ubiquitously mainstream. And don’t anyone say it’s “the War Horse effect”. The passion for puppetry across the industry has been growing rapidly for at least twenty years…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMJames Hyland is artistic director and founder of Brother Wolf, an award-winning production company. He has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMYes we all know the ROH gets around £25m per year (in the 2015/2018) allocation) from Arts Council England and that’s a lot more than most other organisations get – although the subsidy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:20AM“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs …” Thanks, Kipling. Yes, I do try. Especially at the end of a mediocre show when mates of the cast are leaping to their …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:02AMIt’s nearly over for another year. Eight frenetic weeks of classical music concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and another BBC Proms
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMDrama UK claims to provide a kitemark to the “very best drama training available”. And yet that doesn’t include the three Conservatoires for Dance and Drama schools – RADA, LAMDA and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:53AMLouis Ling founded the Cambridge Theatre Company in 2012/13 with a production of Acorn Antiques. Specialising in community theatre, he has since
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEverything is cream or brown because the city we’re in has been devastated by a dust storm. Two newly homeless young women are left behind in the evacuation. They struggle, of course, but …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:40AMThe British Theatre Academy is trying to do things differently by offering many hours of free part-time training. It achieves this by mounting fine shows which more or less cover their costs…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:44AMHere are the facts: Women take longer in the loo than men. Conventionally they need to lock themselves into a cubicle even to urinate. Often – more often, in practice, than men even in enl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:21AMJemma McDonnell is the artistic director of the Paper Birds theatre company. She has performed in or directed all of the company’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSusan Elkin reviews three recently released books on theatre: Stanley Wells' Shakespeare on Page and Stage, Joan Littlewood's autobiography and a collection of 50 Best Plays for Young Audien…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:20AMThey’re on the home straight. Thousands of school leavers, post-gappers and post-grads are heading for drama school or drama course in universities. All that tense worry about auditions, r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:20PMThe first term at drama school – like the rest of the training – is tremendously exciting for anyone who has long
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMAn actor for more than 30 years with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, English Touring Theatre and Vesturport, Kelly Hunter is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLucinda Morrison was head of press at the National Theatre from 2000 to 2016. Having first joined the NT as senior press
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMCardiff is the theatre capital of Wales as well as the political one. Its busy cultural life encompasses the Wales Millennium Centre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMNobody uses the word ‘education’ at the Roundhouse. “Work by, with and for 11-25 year olds is our whole purpose. It underpins
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLucy Ellen Rix worked as a professional stage manager before taking a PGCE in 2002. Since 2009, she has been head of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt’s the signing season. Showcases and graduate shows take place every day at this time of year. I saw two of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWhere do actors and creatives go to hone their skills immediately after graduation? A handful, of course, will be offered high-profile job
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMJoking that he might have been something really useful such as a veterinary surgeon, Stephen Simms strayed from acting into teaching because
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMYouth theatre can, and does, change lives. Few people in the industry need reminding of the power of taking part in theatre
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