166 stories by "Lisa Martland"
Flying the flag for arts training outside London is highly-respected SLP College, based in Garforth, eight miles from Leeds. The school is back for a second year as a partner in The Stage Sc…
No one could doubt Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts' dedication to The Stage Scholarships scheme. For two years running now, the school's panel has not just given one full or several par…
Welcome Bristol-based The Big Act to The Stage Scholarships scheme 2015, the new kid on the block and our first partner to hail from the West Country. Having already gained an impressive rep…
This year, Susi Earnshaw is offering two scholarship winners invaluable help with school fees for years seven or eight up to 11. Two half scholarships are up for grabs " each worth £30,00…
When Downton Abbey actress Joanne Froggatt left her family home at the age of 13 to attend Redroofs School for the Performing Arts, not even she could have imagined being voted best supporti…
The Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama is offering training worth more than £50,000
When long-time partner on The Stage Scholarships, Sylvia Young, recently went to see Cats at the London Palladium with a group of her older students, so many people came up to her to say hel…
Fourth Monkey's artistic director Steve Green is a happy man. He has just read a report detailing how well the first graduates from his theatre company's two-year rep actor training programm…
Entries are now open for two free places on Expressions Academy of Performing Arts’ full-time course
Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury: There's a catastrophe at the very beginning of Aylesbury's Cinderella as the actress playing Fairy Godmother is 'injured'. Fortunately, a fi…
Broxbourne Civic Hall: As is typical in panto, not everything goes to plan. It seems unlikely that Gareth Davies, playing baddie Fleshcreep, was supposed to injure himself during Act II'…
Milton Keynes Theatre: A celebrity name does not a good pantomime make, unless Bradley Walsh is on top of the bill, and then it might just be a sure thing.
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BBC Radio 4: It's easy to assume there are few career challenges that could frighten an experienced, high profile and successful actor, but Richard Wilson blows that theory out of the w…
The Elgiva, Chesham: It requires skill to take control of a packed auditorium of school children at 10.30am on a Monday, but the enthusiastic cast performing the Elgiva's festive offeri…
BBC Radio 3: During the first of five essays on the voice and radio, recorded in October at London's British Academy, actor and director Samuel West discusses how unforgiving a medium r…
There is one big difference between D&B School of Performing Arts' latest scholarship winners. For Annalise Liard-Bailey, who lives 10 minutes away and began attending D&B's part-tim…
Some of the 20 winners of The Stage Scholarships at Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts tell Lisa Martland how they plan use this life-changing opportunity
Dominion Theatre, London: There is pressure on the creators of a Christmas production - especially one having its West End premiere and based on a 1954 movie classic - to present an audience…
BBC Radio 2: Much will be made of the fact that Made in Dagenham, November's big musical theatre opening, is yet another stage adaptation of a movie. So, how difficult is it to create a…
Crazy Coqs, London: Towards the end of his show Broadway State of Mind, US actor and singer Gregg Edelman says how much he loves "mixing it up" - in other words, having a career th…
Charing Cross Theatre, London: There is a scene in Act II of this new production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well in Living in Paris where all the elements come together to demonstrate how …
Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City: This intimate new production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, presented by UK Touring Theatre, introduces audiences to a new English transla…
"I have only been dancing properly for two years, but in the last 12 months it has become my passion and what I want to do as a career. The staff at Tiffany must have…
BBC Radio 4: Richard Eyre enjoys telling the story about when he wrote to Joan Littlewood about staging Oh What a Lovely War at the National Theatre. In her reply, the left-wing theatre dire…
BBC Radio 4: So what was it that finally convinced actor Maxine Peake and Manchester Royal Exchange artistic director Sarah Frankcom to stage their production of Hamlet after years of discus…
