The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has been awarded £1.5 million from the Scottish Funding Council to provide free performing arts training for children from poorer backgrounds. The sche…
The Chicago Children's Theatre will reprise its production of the Broadway musical "A Year with Frog and Toad" as part of a 2013-14 season made up of just one major new production. &nbs…
A collaboration between Chicago Children's Theatre and Redmoon Theatre, the creative team of conceivers, designers, and performers work overtime to ensure this adorable story about friendshi…
As Artistic Director of Windmill Theatre, South Australia's leading performing arts Company for young people, Rosemary Myers has every right to be excited. Last month saw the launch of their…
The Shed; Lyttelton, LondonNicholas Hytner's departure is not the only change under way at the National. By the time a new artistic director arrives in 2015, large swaths of the once controv…
At the Moscow premiere of Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun in 1905, the audience started to panic as they watched the last act. When a marauding mob was heard offstage, approaching fast, su…
Waiting For Wings, a new orchestral piece co-written by Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt based on Lois Ehlert's children's book of the same name, will have its world premiere, co…
No matter how much the marketing team at the National pushes its £12 Travelex ticket deal in order to diversify audiences, watching a piece designed to ridicule the collective middle clas…
Howard Davies's production vividly captures the urgent despair of Gorky's play, but can't quite overcome its flaws, Sarah Hemming writes
Children of the Sun, director Howard Davies' latest production of a Russian classic at the National Theatre (following Philistines, The White Guard and The Cherry Orchard), opened to press i…
Lyttelton, LondonMaxim Gorky takes up where Anton Chekhov leaves off. Written in 1905, shortly after what would become known as Bloody Sunday, when peaceful protesters were shot down by…
Lyttelton, National Theatre, London: Director Howard Davies and translator Andrew Upton who (among other successful collaborations) brought Bulgakov's The White Guard to vivid and scint…
Maxim Gorky wrote this play while in prison in 1905 in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, the shameful episode in which the Imperial Guard turned fire on a peaceful, unarmed demonstration in Pe…
Emma Lowndes as Liza, Geoffrey Streatfield as Protasov & Lucy Black as Melaniya (photo: Richard Hubert Smith) One of the chief strands in Nicholas Hytner's tenure at the National Theatre ha…
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We are gluttons for " or perhaps that should be gourmands of " classic Russian drama in this country. So the National Theatre's revival of a comparative rarity " Gorky's 1905 play Children o…
National Theatre: Children of the Sun trailer Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky in a new version by Andrew Upton Howard Davies stages the latest Russian classic to be adapted by Andrew Up…
Among this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Howard Davies' latest staging of a Russian classic at the National, a 20th anniversary revival of Jon…
The Political Hearts of Children is an interesting play to find yourself observing. It exists largely in a children's imagination, replete with heightened imagery and emotions. At first i…
The Broadway production of Matilda the Musical celebrated its opening night at the Shubert Theatre on Thursday, April 12 with a post-
Children make up one of the most open and attentive audience groups. They will happily and willingly suspend disbelief for all kinds of entertainment. Voice of the Wood performs "How th…
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) was packed on Thursday of last week for the Washington, D.C., premiere of 50 Children: The Res…
MATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, will open on April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street. The four girls sharing the tit…
The BBC is under renewed pressure to ensure children used in its programmes are properly cared for, after an investigation found it had failed to protect the emotional welfare of young peopl…