My Gurus

15 Oct 2014

Director of Half Moon Theatre for children and young people, Chris Elwell names those who have inspired him throughout his career.

Breathing with art again

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13 Oct 2014

Tatiana Rais tells how she has brought back to life an abandoned theatre in the centre of Bogotá.

No more blundering around

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13 Oct 2014

Stan’s Cafe used to ‘blunder around’ doing workshops and videos, but now it has formed some partner relationships with a small number of schools, says James Yarker.

A dramatic effect

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06 Oct 2014

At a school in Bradford, a large number of pupils speak little or no English. Sarah Mumford explains how performing arts techniques are being used to improve their language skills.

Graduate training programme to feed commercial theatre

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29 Sep 2014

Ambassador Theatre Group has launched a scheme that will combine a business foundation with specialist placements to give graduates industry-specific knowledge and experience.

Theatres take action to address gender imbalance

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23 Sep 2014

Sheffield Theatres has pledged to “run against current stereotypes” and employ an equal number of male and female actors throughout each season.

Job Ladder

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17 Sep 2014

Director of The Pleasance Theatre Trust, Anthony Alderson, looks back on a career that has taken him all around the globe.

Critical conditions

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17 Sep 2014

Glen Pearce reacts to one theatre’s decision to grant press tickets only to critics who generate it enough website traffic.

Who is family theatre for?

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11 Sep 2014

Creating and producing family theatre has led Harper Ray to reconsider his audience and cast aside some misconceptions.

Preparing to relax

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08 Sep 2014

Hosting relaxed performances requires thorough staff training and partnership working to target audiences, say Karen Townsend and Zoë Briggs.

Shakespeare to suit

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08 Sep 2014

Patrick Spottiswoode outlines how the Globe Theatre in London is continuing a long tradition in adapting Shakespeare’s plays for the young.

Passion, ambition and vision

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08 Sep 2014

Peter Glanville is passionate that children’s theatre should be of the highest quality attracting the best actors and creative teams.

UK benefits from Creative Europe’s first grants

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29 Aug 2014

More than €5m has been awarded to UK organisations to lead collaborative projects by the European Commission's revamped funding programme.

Study unravels audience experience of theatre

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31 Jul 2014

The value of theatre is in the inter-relationship between the performance, the spectators, and the associations which the experience triggers, according to new research.

Christmas starts early

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21 Jul 2014

The height of summer is the best time for venues offering a Christmas show to start gearing up for success. Hannah Mitchell explains why. 

Arts enthusiasts benefit from subsidy

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21 Jul 2014

While NPOs attract regular attenders, independent theatre is more successful at broadening the theatre audience base, suggests new report.

A wider pool of talent

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21 Jul 2014

Mountview Academy of Arts is making a step-change in its recruitment of drama students to attract talent from a wider social and racial mix, writes Vikki Heywood.

Beating bad behaviour

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08 Jul 2014

Offence-focused group work has been used to reduce re-offending. Louise Heywood explains two key techniques that help offenders to understand and ultimately change their behaviour.

Working with women

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08 Jul 2014

Naomi Joseph talks to Lucy Perman about how Clean Break works with female ex-offenders not just in theatre-making but also offering pastoral care.

Starting young

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03 Jul 2014

Two members of a youth forum have been invited to sit on the board at The Dukes in Lancaster, and are now influencing important decisions, writes Louise Bryning.

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