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April 13, 2017 Susan Elkin

Encouraging deep end reading

There’s a lot of nonsense talking about teaching reading. Of course children, with the help of parents and teachers, need to learn...

March 26, 2017 Susan Elkin

YES to 2 year degrees

Oxford School of Drama which remains defiantly independent of degrees but is rated one of the world’s top five drama schools At...

March 19, 2017 Susan Elkin

All Change Please by Lucy Kerbel

Former director, Lucy Kerbel has – commendably –  turned gender equality in the theatre industry into her life mission. First came her...

February 26, 2017 Susan Elkin

Starting (in term 1) as you mean to go on

Natasha Ravenscroft as Titania in Split Second’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream I have been known to criticise drama school graduates who think...

February 5, 2017 Susan Elkin

Is theatre reviewing teachable?

Critics Kate Maltby and Libby Purves at Critics Circle Awards Last week two unrelated things happened to make me think hard and...

January 30, 2017 Susan Elkin

The Big Interview: Annemarie Lewis Thomas

Annemarie Lewis Thomas is composer, musical director and founder principal of Musical Theatre Academy. MTA has just won the Stage School of...