835 stories by "Paul Vale"
Revolution and upheaval have played a major part in Phil Willmott's season of plays at the Union Theatre this year. Detachment from
The Texan singer Tori Scott feels she has a good reason to drink. Not only is she single but her country is
Based in Reading and in its 10th year, Read College has a 100% success rate for its foundation course pupils gaining places
With The Game of Love and Chai, Nigel Planer successfully dovetails a classical Marivaux farce with Bollywood song and dance to create
Stephen Bill’s dark comedy about how a family copes with reality of assisted suicide premiered in 1987 in Hampstead. Since then, the subjects
At schools across the UK, Razzamataz offers theatre training in a friendly atmosphere and also supports students beyond graduation, Paul Vale writes
In Isobel Dixon's intriguing adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Burn Bright Theatre, the sex of both the creature and her maker
There has been talk about brining Richard Stirling’s play A Princess Undone to London for two years now. When it premiered in
Following on from successful touring productions of Our Man In Havana and Travels With My Aunt, Tilted Wig Productions turns its hand
Liverpool Theatre School hit the news recently when its principal Maxine Ellis announced it was eliminating all audition fees to encourage more
Arts Ed has a genuinely international reputation as an outstanding centre for training in performing arts. In 2016, its BA degree school
Patrick Hamilton's first play Rope may be less familiar to many than Gaslight but it's more tautly constructed, shifting gears from comedy
For his adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen, Phil Willmott has been, in part, inspired by Goya’s painting Los Fusilamientos del Tres de
Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jeykyll and Mr Hyde caused a minor sensation in its day. Plenty of
Of all the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles is the one that has been adapted for the stage and
One of the most interesting facts that surfaces in this Small Faces jukebox musical is that lead singer Steve Marriott could have
No school rivals Sylvia Young's connections with West End shows, and with The Stage Scholarships, you could train there free of charge,
In this articulate drama from R.Kid productions, angels walk the earth in a state of uncertainty. Heaven has restricted immigration and so
While the venue may have long since shifted from Brick Lane to a converted church in Silvertown, the ethos, energy and old-fashioned
Gypsy Queen evolved as a response to the 2016 Winter Olympics in Russia, where a zero-tolerance approach to LGBT+ rights was on
Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild dynasty, roes out of the Frankfurt ghetto to establish a bank in his name. Originally
Feeling disaffected, disillusioned and out of step with her liberal parents and friends, Kelsey considers Trump a serious contender in the race
Martin Blackburn’s first two plays, Alright Bitches! and Bitches Ahoy! showed a strong ear for comedy and a keen eye for characterisation.
Following an extensive refit of the Landor pub’s upper floor, the Landor Space in North Clapham has been created as a multi-purpose
Rachel and Gavin are best friends. Initially they appear to have little in common as Gavin is a good listener and Rachel
