Reviewing Proms and other theatre
Concerts are just another form of theatre – especially classical ones which, however hard promoters and co try to de-formalise them, do...
Concerts are just another form of theatre – especially classical ones which, however hard promoters and co try to de-formalise them, do...
Let me share an, apparently unrecognised, fact of theatre life: You cannot review a show properly without the names of the creatives...
I’m an inclusivity advocate. I love colour-blind or “rainbow” casting such as you see in the current production of Oklahoma at Chichester...
Why aren’t we telling young people about the writing and writing-related careers which drive our industry? Careers advisers working in secondary schools...
My favourite young audience pieces are always those featuring actor musicians. Increasingly I am seeing actor-musos in theatre for grown ups too....
“Oh yes, I do like a musical” I told someone on Saturday. “This is my fourth this week”. It was, without doubt,...
I am gradually amassing quite a pile of books about writing plays. Collecting and reading them is probably a displacement/procrastination activity. One...
It is, obviously, a wonderful thing for the industry to be finding ways of encouraging into its auditoria the very young, people...