166 stories by "Lisa Martland"
BBC Radio 3: For this special series of programmes, recorded at the 2014 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, five different 'authors' discuss the influence Nobel…
Introducing the triumphant winners of The Stage Scholarships to SLP College, who will be starting at the Leeds-based training centre this autumn
Ghost Academy of Performing Arts is offering a total of six places on various courses at the Nottinghamshire-based school " worth a total of nearly £80,000. Lisa Martland speaks to three …
Southwark Playhouse, London: American songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's show A Christmas Story was Tony-nominated in 2013, but it is the team's Off-Broadway musicals that ha…
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Shrek the Musical is the latest in a line of large-scale West End productions (The Lion King and Wicked are others) to tour the UK and Ireland, and on the evidence of t…
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London: Since its original Broadway opening in 1935, critics have debated whether Porgy and Bess (composed by George Gershwin, lyrics co-written by his brothe…
Lisa Martland talks the joint winners of The Stage/Fourth Monkey Theatre Company scholarship
A stream of programmes has been commissioned to mark the Commonwealth Games being held in Glasgow this year, so perhaps it was
A stream of programmes has been commissioned to mark the Commonwealth Games being held in Glasgow this year, so perhaps it was inevitable that one of the city's most famous exports " Marie M…
Katelyn Greenwood tells Lisa Martland about wining the 2014 The Stage/Stella Mann College of Performing Arts three-year dance scholarship
One of the biggest decisions an up-and-coming stand-up comedian can make is to give up the day job and concentrate on performing.
One of the biggest decisions an up-and-coming stand-up comedian can make is to give up the day job and concentrate on performing. It means farewell to the career as a teacher (Greg Davies), …
Blackpool Opera House: It is a boost for Blackpool to be the exclusive UK location for the Mamma Mia! international tour, playing a 12-week season at the Opera House during the crucial holid…
"We are always being told that children don't like reading or writing or anything to do with school and are idiots, and I saw that there was this huge response, and I thought, 'I'd love̷…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: Having started life as a television play, The Blonde Bombshells of 1943 has been through a number of manifestations, the latest of which - seen at Hampstea…
Denise Hutton-Gosney, founder of the Razzamataz Theatre Schools company is offering scholarships at all 40 of its locations across the length and breadth of the country, writes Lisa Martland
Stand-up, actor, writer, composer and musician Isy Suttie has already won a Sony Radio Academy award, but while I have been familiar with her work in the theatre and on television (particula…
Opera House, Manchester: There is a feeling of foreboding in the early stages of this new production of 20th Century Boy - a biographical, jukebox musical dedicated to the life and career of…
The Pauline Quirke Academy has gifted our biggest-ever number of tuition opportunities to young students, worth a total of £50,000, writes Lisa Martland
In May 2012, Alistair McGowan bravely followed in the footsteps of Alec Guinness by portraying several members of the same family in the BBC Radio 4 drama Like Father, Like Daughter " a sequ…
Savoy Theatre, London: Yes, it's another musical adapted from a movie (the 1988 Michael Caine/Steve Martin comedy), and yes, it's one of a stream of recent shows in the genre that …
Ghost Academy is offering six scholarships for its two-year extended diplomas in performing arts, dance or music " worth a total of nearly £80,000
This year we offer a combined £42,000 to a boy and a girl to train on a two-year course in an idyllic seaside town, a stone’s throw from London
Any journalist who has ever tried to arrange a newspaper or broadcast interview with a person of note has, at some point in their career, faced a press representative prepared only to offer …
The Stage and SLP College have teamed up to offer four fantastic scholarships worth a combined £34k to gain top triple threat skills at its well-equipped facility near Leeds
