1. THE BIG INTERVIEW: Beyond the Cart

    THE BIG INTERVIEW: Beyond the Cart  

    Having ‘retired’ from running their hugely successful company, Oily Cart, Susan Elkin caught up with Tim Webb and Dave Bennett to find out what the future now holds in store.

  2. Hamlet at Leeds Playhouse

    Hamlet at Leeds Playhouse  

    Susan Elkin chats to Amy Leach, associate director, about the casting of a female lead and ensuring a contemporary production.

  3. Relaxed Ballet

    Relaxed Ballet  

    Birmingham Royal Ballet will be offering its second relaxed performances in early 2019 – a specially adapted production of Beauty and the Beast at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton and Birmingham Hippodrome. Here, dancer Jonathan Payn describes his involvement in the planning of this special production. Please introduce yourself for us: I’m Jonathan Payn, First Soloist […]

  4. Nurturing Young Talent

    Nurturing Young Talent  

    The Lyric Hammersmith has extended its education outreach work. Susan Elkin went along to find out more.

  5. Proudly Different

    Proudly Different  

    Musical Theatre Academy, long since rebranded as TheMTA, is a tiny vocational drama college whose working methods, influence and achievements are out of all proportion to its size. Susan Elkin went to find out how.

  6. EXHIBITION: Razzle Dazzle ‘Em

    EXHIBITION: Razzle Dazzle ‘Em  

    Graham Hooper takes in a couple of shows looking at the art of distortion and its very practical application

  7. Pause for thought… Christian Knowledge

    Pause for thought… Christian Knowledge  

    Susan Elkin puts forward the case for Christian knowledge as an intrinsic part of English lessons

  8. TheatreCraft

    TheatreCraft  

    Susan Elkin visited TheatreCraft 2018, offering great advice to students looking for careers in the creative industries.

  9. Book Review: The Real Traviata

    Book Review: The Real Traviata  

    By René Weis Published by Oxford University Press Verdi’s 1853 opera La Traviata is based on La Dame aux Camelias, an 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas which he reworked as a play in 1852. The inspiration for all of this was a French courtesan, named Marie Duplessis who shot from poverty to luxury and refinement […]

  10. Book Review: Monsters

    Book Review: Monsters  

    By Sharon Dogmar Published by Andersen Press The exceptionally clever but emotionally immature Mary Godwin was 16 when she met and eloped with Percy Byshe Shelley. He, of course, was already married. That makes her story the perfect subject for modern teenagers who might have got as far as their A levels at the age […]