Tatty venues do not guarantee good theatre
Let’s stop smilingly pretending that tatty, cramped dives with dreadful lavatories are more artistically expressive than venues which conform to modern standards....
Let’s stop smilingly pretending that tatty, cramped dives with dreadful lavatories are more artistically expressive than venues which conform to modern standards....
Two interesting new theatre-related titles have arrived on my desk from Methuen Drama (part of Bloomsbury) – both relevant to youth theatre...
It was a real joy and privilege to be a special guest at The MTA’s tenth birthday party, Gradunion, last week. It...
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....