Discussions and articles regarding performing arts training.
A selection of contributors, who have all recently graduated from CDS courses, share experiences on their entry into the performing arts industry
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An occasional series of interviews with names from the world of theatre, broadcasting and all avenues of the performing arts.
One of the country’s leading theatre reviewers, Mark Shenton offers news, opinion, commentary and the occasional anecdote about theatre in the West End, Broadway, and further afield. Mark is also theatre critic for the Sunday Express and other theatrical publications.
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Recent posts
Children in theatre
Education and Training: A year or so ago I interviewed Jo Hawes for the Training page in The Stage about her very successful new (then) masterclasses for children wanting to audition for professional shows. Jo, whom I’ve known for some time, is...
Theatres on a roll
Shenton’s View: Success in the theatre, as in life, breeds success; they acquire momentum, confidence and of course an audience in turn, and a virtuous circle is created. The opposite is also true: there are theatres locked in vicious cycles of...
Gut instinct versus hard facts
Shenton’s View: Because theatre is live and therefore endlessly mutable, it is one of the most instinctive, intuitive and personal art forms around to respond to: whatever we feel about it cannot be a snapshot of the event in its entirety,...
Do you want to learn the craft in an actor training company?
Education and Training: Here’s something different. Could this modus operandi possibly evolve into the way forward in these cash strapped times? Fourth Monkey Theatre Company is an actor training company led by Steven Green. Based in Muswell Hill in north London’s Borough...
The changing rules of PR engagement
Shenton’s View: I’ve previously worried away here at the fate of critics in an ever-changing media landscape, where dead-tree journalism is hurtling the way of the Dodo towards flightless oblivion, but since everyone’s a critic already on the internet, there’s a...
Fingers crossed for Redbridge Drama Centre
Education and Training: Redbridge is not a sexy borough. It has neither the deprived-so-we-must-help image of, say Tower Hamlets, nor the prosperous middle class ambience of, for example, Bromley. And my perception is that because of this it tends, rather unfairly, to...
Short Shorts 21
Shenton’s View: It’s not often that The Sun writes about the theatre, so I suppose we should be grateful whenever it does, even if only to reveal some steamy goings-on , apparently in the back of a cab, between a young,...
The most successful theatre in the (English-speaking) world
Shenton’s View: At last Friday’s Stage New Year party, The National Theatre was presented with its Stage 100 Award for Producer of the Year , recognising its ever-expanding produceorial role beyond its home theatre, and even beyond its own productions. Last...
Pick and mix and tax
Grads’ Club: Well I don’t know about you, but I’m rather grateful HMRC were striking yesterday . And even happier they’ve given us two days leeway on this blasted tax return. God bless the angry call centre strikers and down with...
Michael Pennington as educator
Education and Training: I write all the time about learning in these online columns. That’s the whole point. Education and training is what this blog is about. Usually, however, I write about other people’s learning. Today I have to tell you about...
Latest news
- Exclusive: New Off-West End venue to replace Westminster Theatre after ten-year wait
A replacement for the old Westminster Theatre will finally open this autumn, following a protracted and sometimes bitter decade-long battle to create a new purpose-built, mid-scale theatre in central London.
- Third London Great Gatsby adaptation announced
A third London stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby has been announced in two days, with a musical version due to open at the King’s Head Theatre in August.
- Wilton’s to re-bid to HLF following £700k grant
Wilton’s Music Hall is to re-apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund for financial support for its renovation plans, after securing a £700,000 grant from a trust last week.
- Cuts force Theatre Writing Partnership to close
Theatre Writing Partnership, the development agency formed more than a decade ago to support and promote new playwriting, is being forced to close this summer after it lost its regular funding from Arts Council England.
- Madani Younis announces debut Bush season
Madani Younis has unveiled his inaugural season as artistic director of London’s Bush Theatre, saying he intends to take more work “beyond the building”.
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