Monday, October 31, 2016
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 03:00AMMonday, October 24, 2016
'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 left,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Yvonne 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 02:00AMThursday, October 13, 2016
Happy 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 06:35AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
I'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's All Ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:06AMMonday, October 3, 2016
It 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 02:00AMMonday, September 26, 2016
It'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. It is no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMMonday, September 19, 2016
James 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 02:00AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Yes 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 h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:20AMSunday, September 11, 2016
"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 feet…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:02AMFriday, September 9, 2016
It'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 09:00AMMonday, September 5, 2016
Drama 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 Bristol…
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 02:00AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Everything 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 ev…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:40AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
The 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 04:44AMMonday, August 22, 2016
Here 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 enlig…
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 02:00AMMonday, August 15, 2016
Susan 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 11:20AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
They'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, rec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:20PMFriday, August 12, 2016
The first term at drama school " like the rest of the training " is tremendously exciting for anyone who has long
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMMonday, August 8, 2016
An 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 02:00AMMonday, July 25, 2016
Lucinda 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 02:00AMFriday, July 22, 2016
Cardiff 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 05:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Nobody 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 02:00AMMonday, July 11, 2016
Lucy 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 02:00AMSunday, July 3, 2016
It'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 05:00AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Where 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 05:00AMThursday, June 30, 2016
Joking 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:20AM 
