Education and Training [RSS]
Discussions and articles regarding performing arts training.
Grads’ Club [RSS]
A selection of contributors, who have all recently graduated from CDS courses, share experiences on their entry into the performing arts industry
In The Paper [RSS]
A sneak preview into the world of The Stage, the UK’s newspaper for the entertainment performing arts industry.
Podcasts [RSS]
An occasional series of interviews with names from the world of theatre, broadcasting and all avenues of the performing arts.
Shenton’s View [RSS]
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.
TV Today [RSS]
TV Today is the blog you need if your life revolves around television — on either side of the camera, or from the comfort of your sofa. With regular contributions from The Stage’s broadcasting correspondent Matthew Hemley, assistant editor Scott Matthewman and author and all-round TV guru Mark Wright.
Recent posts
Its certainly slippery: snow joke!
Grads’ Club: So Austria is pretty much a death trap for anyone of my clumsiness. Those who know me will be well aware of how useless I am on my feet; I believe the term ‘Winnie the Pooh on LSD’ has...
SYTYCD: Mandy and Alastair’s exit interviews
TV Today: And so with just one more show in the series to go, it’s time for the traditional exit interviews from the semi-final’s departing dancers, Mandy Montanez and Alastair Postlethwaite. According to Mandy, participating in the show has reignited the...
Awards déjà vu (and surprises from the commercial theatre)….
Shenton’s View: We’ve already had the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, but now the biggie is coming up: the industry’s self-governed, own awards to itself, the Laurence Olivier Awards. It’s always nicer, I think, when someone...
Glee video preview: Episode 7, ‘Throwdown’
TV Today: And so once more those lovely people at E4 have provided TV Today readers with a special preview of next week’s episode… In Throwdown , Sue Sylvester is now co-director of the glee club, and her ongoing battle with...
Square Eyes, February 8-11
TV Today: EastEnders BBC1, Monday 8pm One by one, the Jacksons are returning to the Square. Tonight, it’s the turn of Sonia (Natalie Cassidy) who joins in Bianca’s hen celebrations. Law & Order UK ITV1, Monday 9pm A backpacking student arrives...
SYTYCD: Live Show 5 review - the semi-final
TV Today: This week’s So You Think You Can Dance was a different experience for me, as the BBC were kind enough to invite me down to the studio to save me live tweeting from home. And it was a great...
Hip hop widens horizons
Education and Training: Good to hear of something as popular as hip hop being used to focus the attention of school students, many of whom are disadvantaged. When I was teaching we used rather inelegantly to call it ‘starting where the child...
Whose star ratings are they anyway?
Shenton’s View: Brevity, they are always saying, is the soul of wit; but these are lean times for theatre reviewing, in every sense. AA Gill famously suggested a few years ago that “no aspect of the culture is as badly served...
Puts a tingle in your fingers
Grads’ Club: Forgive me for my somewhat incoherent ramblings, but this week is rapidly descending into chaos, with sanity soon to be replaced with a big bowl of almost set raspberry jelly. Lovely. On the upside, it’s great to be back...
Turn off the TV: radio choices, February 6-12
TV Today: Archive on 4: Open Sesame Radio 4, Saturday 8pm Jim Henson’s Muppets have lived alongside humans in ** Sesame Street ** for forty years, educating children around the world as they entertain them. Konnie Huq looks back over the...
Latest news
- ACE grants Leicester’s Curve more than £1m from Sustain
- Leicester Curve is the first theatre to be awarded more than £1 million from Art Council England’s recession fighting fund Sustain.
- Nash quits Young Vic post after three months
- Young Vic executive director Gregory Nash has quit only three months after joining the London producing venue.
- Torvill and Dean to star in Dancing on Ice tour
- Skating stars Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are to star in a fourth UK Dancing on Ice live tour starting in April.
- Birmingham’s MAC reopens after £15m overhaul
- Birmingham’s Midlands Arts Centre will reopen on May 1 following a £15 million redevelopment project.
- Pineapple plans dance scheme to teach jazz and hip hop in schools
- London dance studios Pineapple is planning a new schools initiative which will see the organisation train up teachers to take jazz and hip hop classes.
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