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
The complete Torchwood Week
TV Today: It’s been a fun week producing so much Torchwood -related content. Thanks to everyone who’s enjoyed what we’ve produced and given us such great feedback, be it on the site, by email or Twitter or on the various message...
Turn off the TV: Radio picks, July 4-10
TV Today: Saturday Play: Utz Radio 4, Saturday 2.30pm Gregory Norminton adapt Bruce Chatwin’s novel to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death. Kaspar Utz is a Prague-based collection of Meissen porcelain, and has managed to preserve his collection throughout his...
Torchwood Week: John Barrowman
TV Today: And so Torchwood Week starts to draw to a close here on TV Today , with the last of our interviews. After yesterday’s talk with Eve Myles , Wednesday’s conversation with Gareth David-Lloyd and our two-part interview with Russell...
Square Eyes 3-5 July
TV Today: Coronation Street (Friday 7.30/8.30pm, ITV1) A storyline that’s been bubbling away in the background for the last couple of months (and could still explode all over the cobbles somewhere down the line), takes a twist tonight as Maria gives...
Torchwood Week: Square Eyes Special Preview
TV Today: I’ve had a somewhat uneven history with Torchwood . The first season, broadcast in 2006, didn’t do much for me. It started well enough, but within a few episodes had descended into a juvenile mess that really didn’t become...
July 2: Neil Bartlett and Sally Lindsay talk bingo
In The Paper: In this week’s issue of The Stage , writer/director Neil Bartlett suggests it may be the first time that many theatregoers have been inside a bingo hall, but that’s exactly where they will find themselves when attending his new...
Torchwood Week: Eve Myles
TV Today: And so, as we enter into the home straight of our Torchwood Week here on TV Today , we follow up yesterday’s interview with Gareth David-Lloyd with a sit-down with Eve Myles , who plays Gwen Cooper. As with...
The power of 4,700 voices
Education and Training: Last night I was at O2 Arena for the launch of Voices for a Better World , a project to raise funds for dedicated children’s charities Global Angels and Arts by Children - two international organisations which work at...
Torchwood on radio: What did you think of Asylum?
TV Today: So the first of three Radio 4 Afternoon Plays featuring Cardiff’s least secret top-secret organisation, Torchwood: Asylum , has just finished. If you missed it, it’ll be available on iPlayer for seven days , and for UK licence fee...
Matthew James Thomas: The Stage Podcast #32
Podcasts: With screen roles including Stephen Poliakoff’s The Lost Prince and West End parts in Whistle Down the Wind and Fame , Matthew James Thomas’s highest profile role to date has been Jez Tyler on ITV1’s performing arts school-based musical...
Latest news [RSS]
- Just William back on the BBC
- Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye is to adapt Richmal Crompton’s Just William books for the BBC, marking the third time the Corporation has adapted the stories.
- Move north rejected by majority of BBC middle managers
- More than 50% of staff in the five BBC departments relocating to Salford’s MediaCityUK, the new base for BBC North, have refused to make the move.
- Del Boy back in Only Fools and Horses prequel
- Derek Trotter, the character made famous by David Jason in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, is to return to television screens in a new comedy drama about his teenage years.
- Cardiff’s Sherman Cymru theatre wins Arts and Business award
- Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold and Cardiff’s Sherman Cymru theatre have been recognised at this year’s Arts and Business Cymru Awards for organisations in Wales.
- Sales of Theatre Tokens up 14%
- Sales figures for Theatre Tokens in the first four months of this year are 14% higher than they were in 2008.
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