739 stories by "Susan Elkin"
When school groups go to the theatre to watch dramatised versions of the novels on the curriculum, there is a problem: English
So how on earth do greedy producers justify their obscene top ticket prices? Last week we heard that the best tickets for Hamilton are now £250 each. Okay, so I know you can sit elsewhere…
LGBTQ+ activist Jamie Fletcher, who is transgender, is a film and theatre director and also a musician. She creates multidisciplinary queer work
Chris Cuming, who teaches at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Rose Bruford College, recently choreographed the musical Yank!
The RSC provide resources, support, workshops and more to help children to start Shakespeare earlier, do it on their feet and see it live as set out in the RSC's 2006 Manifesto, Stand Up For…
In a vibrant, growing but overcrowded industry, which is also swamped with good young people desperate to be part of it, the ability to create work independently has never mattered more.
Are you a non-drama student who has decided that a theatre career is for you? Are you an actor looking for focused
Last Thursday [while much of the UK was still on holiday], I attended the press conference at which Michelle Terry revealed her first season at The Globe. And the dynamics in the room were f…
"It keeps a show fresh if you're innovative, but it's no good setting out to be 'different' for the sake of it. It's essential that you remain true to your character and the situation he's i…
Matthew Campling's 10th produced play, The Secondary Victim, which recently had a four week run at the Park Theatre, was inspired by
John-Jackson Almond, the new director of the Assembly Hall Theatre, has clearly got the measure of what works in Tunbridge Wells. While
Trinity Theatre artistic director John Martin negotiated for four years for the rights to John Kane’s lovely version of The Wizard of
Children " for the most part, don't find filth and innuendo funny even if they understand it. Actually, neither do I if it's there simply because it's smutty. A joke has to be really clever …
Ebony Feare trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and has worked in theatre, television and radio since graduating. She is currently
A trumpet playing, narcoleptic good fairy (Nicola Bryan) sets the tone for Chatham's traditional yet fresh pantomime. It's a treat, featuring delightful
Now this is how you produce a decent local panto on a very low budget. With a cast of eight and a
The innate glitziness of the Orchard Theatre " with its strips of multicoloured, flashing neon lights around the auditorium – makes it
If you're looking for a present, bound to make your beloved theatre person giggle all Christmas morning, then West End Producer's shiny new book is the obvious 2017 choice.
The rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas at the end of this year's Churchill Theatre panto is one of the funniest sequences
The world's largest Shakespeare Festival ends this week after 292 performance nights in theatres all over the country. I refer, of course, to Shakespeare Schools Foundation which, every year…
The idea of four modern-ish children improvising a story is not particularly original but it works splendidly in Mike Kenny's adapatation of The Snow Queen for a cast of four.
Hollywood film director and acting coach Michelle Danner has been coaching for 27 years, working with actors privately as well as on set.
The flood myth is common to most cultures and John Agard, originally from Guyana, gives it strong African undertones with lots of African resonances in the language which often rhymes. At th…
Traditional can often mean stale but Paul Hendy knows panto too well for that. His latest, immaculately well-targeted pantomime for the Marlowe is
I have followed the success of Fourth Monkey Training Company, which launched in 2010, almost since before it was a twinkle in Steve Green's eye.
