739 stories by "Susan Elkin"
It's hard to find a focal point in Theatre Royal Margate's Peter Pan. While it strives to be traditional, it lacks a
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Kiruna Stamell, who has dwarfism and is around 3ft tall, arrived in Britain from her native Australia in 1999. Since then she
A sparky tap dance round the cauldron by Hollie Cassar as Spite and a wittily well written love duet from Terrence Frisch
Colour, movement, smiles, clear story telling, visual surprises and a narrative so iconically familiar that almost everyone in the audience can recite
Yes, it's that time of year. Last week I saw my first two 2016 pantomimes " Dick Whittington at the Marlowe Theatre (Evolution Pantomimes) and Sleeping Beauty at Hackney Empire. The former i…
SEDOS (Stock Exchange Drama and Operatic Society, long since open to people from all walks of life across London) never disappoints. Their Candide " with a thirteen piece band " certainly be…
An Equity-registered fight director, Roger Bartlett's credits include Treasure Island, Richard III and Julius Caesar for Iris Theatre, African Gothic at the
Stage schools are often unfairly stereotyped by the media and teaching unions as places where the spoiled brats of pushy parents receive
Last week I went to TheatreCraft 2016, the eleventh annual "beyond the stage" careers event which routinely attracts over 1000 people, most of them young. This time it was based at the Waldo…
You know you're winning with an early years show when the young children in the audience call out in cheerful, uninvited vociferous
The New Oxford Shakespeare the Complete Works has just arrived and it has set me reminiscing.
Grace Lancaster graduated from the actor musicianship course at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance this year. She regularly gigs as
I’ve been thinking about Shakespeare. Not unusual. I probably think about him at least once every two minutes as chaps are supposed to do about … but never mind that. I used to t…
If you want to act professionally then it's important to know why you do. Otherwise you won't be able to convince the
Last week I was variously accused (good old Twitter) of marginalising, undermining, undervaluing and failing to respect technical theatre professionals in general and stage managers in…
Nathaniel Wade, 21, was offered a drama school place upon leaving school in 2014, but didn’t feel ready. Instead, he has opted
'Tis the season … to be applying to drama school if working as a performing arts professional is your career plan. Well, on the assumption that you may be still at school or not long left,…
Yvonne Stone studied puppetry at Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and has been making puppets and directing puppetry for more
Happy birthday, Marlowe Theatre, which is this month celebrating the first five years in its new venue. I attended an enjoyably upbeat celebratory gala concert (all proceeds to the new Creat…
I'm always nervous when I'm about to make an entrance. Then came Cambridge and the opening night of the tour on 20 April in the Arts Theatre. I stood in the wings. It's Sasha Reagan's All Ma…
It is less than a month since I wrote an article in which I argued for the winding up of Drama UK. I didn't expect it to disappear round the U bend quite so quickly but it is now dead.
Inga Davis-Rutter trained at Arts Educational Schools London before reading music at York University and studying piano with Royal Academy of Music's
It's gone ubiquitously mainstream. And don't anyone say it's "the War Horse effect". The passion for puppetry across the industry has been growing rapidly for at least twenty years. It is no…
James Hyland is artistic director and founder of Brother Wolf, an award-winning production company. He has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and
