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  1. Dancers Wellbeing

    Dancers Wellbeing  

    As the Head of Dance at READ College, I am passionate about ensuring that my young students have the very best start to their professional dance training and consequently their future careers. This means educating our young people about how to look after themselves both physically and psychologically. By Helen Read In recent years there […]

  2. Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank

    Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank  

    Proving an unmitigated success, the annual Playing Shakespeare season at The Globe promises to enthral, engage and entertain thousands more teenagers this spring. Susan Elkin is a huge, well wrapped up fan Anyone who doubts that Shakespeare still speaks to young people should get along to The Globe to see The Taming of the Shrew […]

  3. School of the Year

    School of the Year  

    Susan Elkin meets the ArtsEd’s Chris Hocking to find out why the school continues to be so successful and is in such high demand “I think we are probably the school of choice for anyone wanting to specialise in musical theatre” says Chris Hocking, principal designate of Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick and currently head of […]

  4. THE BIG INTERVIEW: Ben Ofoedu

    THE BIG INTERVIEW: Ben Ofoedu  

    Ben Ofoedu chats with Susan Elkin about his life and career, from global singing star to scene-stealing genie and beyond He bounds beaming up the stairs to meet me in a Mexican café in Soho. He has chosen this establishment because they’ve given him a Gold Card in acknowledgement of his celebrity status. His rather […]

  5. THE INBOX – MARCH 2017

    THE INBOX – MARCH 2017  

    NATIONAL THEATRE TO TOUR IBSEN’S MASTERPIECE HEDDA GABLER Following a sold-out run at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre, the NT will begin a UK tour of its acclaimed production of Hedda Gabler on 2 October 2017.  Beginning at Theatre Royal Plymouth, the tour will journey across the UK finishing on 3 March 2018. Just married. […]

  6. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Michael Volpe

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Michael Volpe  

    Michael Volpe is the director of Opera Holland Park but his background is unusual. He spoke to Susan Elkin

  7. Book Review: The Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present

    Book Review: The Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present  

    by Gary Day Bloomsbury Methuen Drama So how did it all begin? It’s easy to forget, when you’re sitting in the National Theatre absorbed in, say, the current Christmas show, Peter Pan with all its technical smoothness, that drama as a genre is constantly changing and involving. It has a long history and key periods […]

  8. Book Review: Drama Games for Young Children & Drama Games for Rehearsals

    Book Review: Drama Games for Young Children & Drama Games for Rehearsals  

    by Katherine Zachest Drama Games for Rehearsals by Jessica Swale Nick Hern Books A couple of new additions to the bestselling Drama Games series from NHB landed in our office. These dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire books would make an excellent addition to the resources at your disposal – whether you are working with young children or […]

  9. Theatre Review: Mamma Mia – Novello Theatre

    Theatre Review: Mamma Mia – Novello Theatre  

    Owing to the popularity of the 2008 film, there are no real surprises with the stage version of Mamma Mia; you go expecting – and getting – a thoroughly entertaining night out. Now in its 18th year, the ABBA numbers could almost have been written with this musical in mind, so seamlessly do they weave […]

  10. Theatre Review: Half a Sixpence – Noel Coward Theatre

    Theatre Review: Half a Sixpence – Noel Coward Theatre  

    This comedy of social class and socialism, based on HG Wells novel Kipps, first saw the light of day in 1963, written by Beverley Cross and David Heneker for Tommy Steele who played Arthur Kipps. Now reworked with book refreshed by Julian Fellowes and lots of new Stiles and Drewe songs and lyrics, it’s deliciously […]