Youth 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 02:20AMJulian Woolford is head of MA, musical theatre and pathway leader for MA Creative Practices and Direction Musical Theatre Creation. He has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe industry is doing pretty well. According to the latest figures, the music, performing and visual arts sector contributed £5.4 billion to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMOnce I’d got over the frustration of being sent a press release without any event dates on it and made a fuss,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTheatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams, reviews by Joyce McMillan, edited by Philip Howard (Nick Hern Books) A fascinating range of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIt really is time that successful, prominent actors stopped telling the world that actor training is now impossibly expensive for working-class aspirants.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMLou Stein is a man with vision. Only a few weeks into his new job at Chickenshed, based in Southgate, north London,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 brochure has arrived. As usual, it’s the size of a thumping great telephone directory – an astonishing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLloyd Hollett is one of the UK’s most sought after comedy entertainers. Billed as a “comedy wordsmith”, he is currently on an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMNT Connections claims to be the largest youth theatre festival in the world. It’s certainly hard to think of anything comparable. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe strongest argument in favour of part-time training is economic. Training is obviously much more affordable if there is time in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMI’m an eavesdropper. I’ve never quite known which came first. Did I go into journalism because I’m nosey, or did I get
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMKing Lear in Brooklyn, by Michael Pennington (Oberon Books, 2016) In 2014, actor and author Michael Pennington arrives in New York to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEvery theatre and venue in the country is busily doing as much education and outreach work as it can manage and get
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMGeorge Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, arguably the ultimate in dystopian fiction, has been on and off school syllabuses almost since it was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMRobert Stuhldreer is a professional dog trainer and exhibitor at championship show level. Following a hugely successful six-month run with his four
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI recently visited Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance’s Deptford campus to speak to its principal Anthony Bowne about taught degree
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMEleanor Jackson is singing a witty, poignant number from Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and she’s rivetingly good. I’m
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMShout! The Mod Musical runs at the Royal Court, Liverpool, until June 4. But this isn’t an ordinary show – it is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM1. Come prepared Bring with you everything you need. That includes any music in folders, amps and whatever you need for your
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLast Friday I shared some lunchtime sandwiches with veteran actor Stephanie Cole. She trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1957-59
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe pathways to directing are many and various. Some fine directors – Gregory Doran and Daniel Evans, for instance – train and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMDance science is a new discipline related to, but different from, sports science. I have to admit I hadn’t really heard of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMCross-gender casting is everywhere. It seems to be catching on so fast that I wonder how long it will be before drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTechnical theatre is invisible. It’s the swan’s busy, muscular, webbed feet paddling along beneath the surface, underpinning the calm, apparently effortless bird
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMJosh Boyd-Rochford works for Simon and How. With a junior assistant he manages 110 musical theatre clients, many of them in West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWhy aren’t we telling young people about the writing and writing-related careers that drive our industry? Careers advisers working in secondary schools
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWhose idea was RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation? Give him or her an OBE. The whole concept
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHow do you train to be a director? There are masters degrees, postgraduate diplomas and self-help books, but the best training is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMInclusivity is an absolute term. You can’t be inclusive with exceptions. I was chatting to staff at Chickenshed – an organisation that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhen most of the rest of the theatre world was either at the Olivier Awards or glued to them on TV, I
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