739 stories by "Susan Elkin"
Andrew Wright is an award-winning director and choreographer, whose work has been staged worldwide. His current projects include Half a Sixpence and
Founded in 1971 by Jackie Palmer (who died last year aged 95) and her daughter Marylyn, the school has occupied various premises in and around High Wycombe.
Oliver Ford Davies is an unusual actor because he’s also an accomplished academic – that makes him a pretty cerebral blend of practical and theoretical. His latest book Sha…
Need more proof that drama transforms young lives? I think most of us are already convinced but if you need evidence to support an argument with the unenlightened then I’ve seen three …
Katy Lipson, 32, started Aria Entertainment in 2012 having put on musical theatre shows since she was 19. Aria's productions currently include
I review a lot of professional theatre. I also cover amateur shows, including student ones. Regularly doing both throws up some thorny problems.
Amy Trigg was the first wheelchair user to graduate from a performance course at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and recently appeared
I reviewed Changeling Theatre's rather good Hamlet last week in the ruins of the old Garrison Church at Woolwich. I really liked the production and it is my fervent hope that we shall soon s…
The stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson's What the Ladyird Heard has benefited from a great deal of development work since its first
Last week I saw The Wind in the Willows at the Palladium on press night. Did I see the same show as, for example, Dominic Cavendish, Ann Treneman and Michael Billington? Apparently not.
Chloe Poulter is head of wigs and make-up at Opera Holland Park. Starting her working career at the age of 14 in
While universities have traditionally offered more academic programmes compared with more practical training at drama schools, the lines between different institutions are
It happens every year so I really shouldn't be surprised. The Edinburgh Fringe programme drops (like an old fashioned telephone directory) on the mat and I'm bowled over by the eclecticism o…
Once the decision has been made to try to break into the performing arts, 16 to 18-year-olds can choose from a variety
Julian Glover is Julius Caesar, Lynn Farleigh is Calpurnia and John Hartoch is Cinna the Poet. Everyone else in the cast of Bristol Old Vic's current production of Julius Caesar is a third-y…
Of course I can understand why the UK's major drama schools feel they need some kind of communal (united?) voice. They've lost National Council of Drama School Training which merged with Co…
Matthieu Bellon-Leloup is a French-born, Brighton-based theatre director who teaches at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. He and the company
For the second year, students from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School are performing at its namesake venue with a cast of professional
The British are, as ever, mad, I reflected as I gathered with a large group of blanket carrying stalwarts at Coolings Garden Centre near Bromley last week for the opening performance of Illy…
Jeni Boyns is a secondary school drama teacher in Medway, Kent. She is on the committee of Gillingham Dramatic Society which mounts
Richard Knowles Organisation: Chichester Festival Theatre Training: University of Hull CV: West Yorkshire Playhouse working with young people, youth theatre, community groups,
Some theatrically inclined school leavers are ready for drama school. Others are not. So how can or should such a young person " or an older one seeking an opportunity to dip a toe in the wa…
In response to government thinking on the length of degree courses, Susan Elkin says despite misgivings drama schools should reconsider their one-size-fits-all approach.
If you want to train as an opera singer, Britain seems a good place to be based. In the 2017 listing by subject, QS World University Rankings placed Juilliard School in New York first in the…
Take learning how to read play scripts imaginatively and intelligently. Robert Knopf's Script Analysis for Theatre (Bloomsbury) has masses of advice for theatre students and professionals in…
