52nd Theatertreffen 2015 in Berlin
What is Theatertreffen?
As Rivka Jacobson put it "every year, a seven-member jury zips across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, taking in scads of th...
Finding the Playmakers of the Future
Mel Cooper talks to Louise Chantal, CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, about her new initiative to find and encourage the next generation of playwrights
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The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2015, and Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize
It’s the middle of May so it can only be time for what has now established itself as an annual fixture on the musical theatre landscape, the afternoon...
Theatre: All class and no class divide
Jimmy Fairhurst, Artistic Director of Not Too Tame, talks about the future of theatre:
Pete Postlethwaite, during his time at the Liverpool Everym...
Hope in a Ballet Shoe
Michaela DePrince was only 19 when she wrote this memoir with the help of her mother and wondered if it was not premature to undertake this task. But ...
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr is a respected critic and biographer and in his latest book, a definitive life of Tennessee Williams, he has outdone himself in giving us a ...
Allen Shawn, Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician (Jewish Lives)
Allen Shawn’s new book about Leonard Bernstein probably doesn’t replace the magisterial Humphrey Burton tome about the polymath’s extraordinary life, ...
Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir
Over Christmas, three books about entertainment folk kept me enthralled, engaged and informed. The first of these was the haunting and, at times, surp...
A Critic’s Advice on Reviewing
I've been a theatre critic for most of my working life but I'm reluctant to lay down rules. Every review should be an expression of the writer's perso...
Challenges Facing a Student-Director
An overview of our production of Euripides’ Bacchae from beginning to its international tour.
Directing Euripides’ Bacchae and touring it for the pas...