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
A sneak preview into the world of The Stage, the UK’s newspaper for the entertainment performing arts industry.
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
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...
Attendances are falling (but the money keeps rolling in)
Shenton’s View: The week before last the Arts Council England released figures showing that total audiences at subsidised theatres across England have dropped by nearly 8% over the last two years, with audience levels for both 2008/9 and 2010/11 falling from...
A labour of love (and a love of theatrical labour)
Shenton’s View: Everyone wants to spend their lives doing what they enjoy, preferably with people they love; and having a career means being paid to do what you’d do anyway for free. Without wishing to be smug, that’s something that we...
Latest news
- Chichester Festival Theatre unveils 50th anniversary season
Chichester Festival Theatre is to build a new, temporary venue in the park beside the venue as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations this summer.
- The Lion King to tour UK
The Lion King is to tour the UK for the first time this summer.
- Upstairs, Downstairs actress Tomasin’s funeral to take place this week
Former colleagues of Upstairs, Downstairs star Jenny Tomasin are expected to be among the mourners at her funeral service on Thursday, February 9.
- Finborough and Landor lead Off West End Theatre Awards
Accolade at the Finborough and the Landor’s production of Ragtime were the big winners at this year’s Off West End Theatre Awards, presented in partnership with The Stage.
- Old Vic transfers Noises Off into the West End
London’s Old Vic Theatre is to transfer its production of Noises Off into the West End for a limited season this summer.
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