The Expressions Academy of Performing Arts, based in the East Midlands, is offering two scholarships each worth more than £23,000, for top class training in a quality environment
BBC Radio 4 comedy can be a hit-and-miss affair, but Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen, Again turned out to be one of the most touching and laugh-out-loud, funny half-hours I have had the pri…
Here's your chance to apply for free training at one of the UK's top dance and musical theatre colleges
The Stage/CPA Studios Scholarship offers £26,000 for a dedicated young performer towards training on CPA's three-year, full-time musical theatre diploma writes Lisa Martland
Noel Coward Theatre, London: In the programme notes for The Full Monty, writer Simon Beaufoy comments: "Who would have thought a film in which there is impotence, unemployment, despair …
The Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama in Nottingham is offering places worth £51,000 to a boy and a girl as part of The Stage Scholarships
Apologies to singer-songwriter and musician Suzi Quatro for completely prejudging her taste in music. While it was impressive to discover that the artist's new series Quatrophonic marked her…
Do you know anyone keen to have a career working in technical theatre? If so then spread the word fast about The Stage Scholarships scheme partnership with the Backstage Academy in Wakefield…
If the conventional drama school route doesn't turn out to be the right fit for you, that doesn't mean there isn't alternative training on offer through The Stage Scholarships scheme, thanks…
Fancy the chance to work on productions for the likes of Jay-Z and the Arctic Monkeys, as well as being trained to handle staging, lighting and sound for sporting events, cruise ships and th…
With a reputation for producing top stars of stage and screen these scholarships are an unmissable opportunity for young people of talent, writes Lisa Martland
Sylvia Young Theatre School has an impressive list of stars among its past and present students " and with three scholarships up for grabs, you could join them, writes Lisa Martland
Prestigious drama school Italia Conti is again offering a lifeline to young performers via The Stage Scholarships scheme
If school years seven or eight are just around the corner, and you don't want singing, acting and dancing to be something you just do in the evenings and at weekends, then the opportunity to…
St James Theatre, London: While the Sondheim revue Putting It Together began its journey in Oxford in 1992 before heading across the pond, there have been limited opportunities since to see …
The D and B School of Performing Arts offers a balanced curriculum, an agency, individual attention " and two full Stage Scholarships. Lisa Martland reports
A rumour taken seriously can spread like wildfire in the digital world via Twitter, Facebook and every other social network, so long as enough members of the public keep the story alive. Wit…
As The Stage noted in its commemorative issue last week, this is a momentous year for the National Theatre, with many events scheduled to celebrate its 50th anniversary, plus a significant c…
In the 24-hour multimedia climate we live in day to day, it is perhaps difficult to appreciate how influential the writers and film makers of the British New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s beca…
Thanks to the inspired move to recruit Moira Stuart on to the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show team back in 2010, the station has also benefited from making use of her talents elsewhere. Following…
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London: Cynics will suggest that the team assembled for this project have jumped on the Roald Dahl bandwagon, following the award-winning success of Matilda the Mu…
BBC Radio 4 Extra is always a good place to go for a slice of nostalgia, an example of which was the recent broadcast of A Royal Gala Programme of Radio Variety 1953, marking the...
Associated Studios A new, full-time (four days a week), one-year diploma course in musical theatre begins at Associated Studios on October 1 this year. Based at the Riverside Studios in Hamm…
In 1982, German film director and producer Hans W Geissendorfer became fascinated by the effect soap opera, and in particular Coronation Street, had on its viewers. Indeed, he felt so inspir…
"All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts." This much-quoted phrase...