Musical theatre performers need to transcend the material to captivate an audience. A star name may boost the box office but if they can’t deliver, it can make or break a show
Welcome to our weekly discussion forum for key issues facing those working in theatre and the performing arts. This week, we ask: what kind of job have you never done, but would like to?
Fascinated by Beckett since seeing Waiting for Godot as a student, the in-demand actor tells Natasha Tripney about curating an international festival of his hero’s work, preparing to make his musical theatre debut in Kiss Me, Kate and his role in the game-changing Line of Duty
From crossing vast mountain ranges and committing brutal acts of violence, to conjuring life-sized tigers and going inside the human body, theatremakers have long attempted to stage the seemingly unstageable. Artists responsible for some of these onstage phenomena tell Lyn Gardner how they do it, and why, sometimes, doing more with less can be the most powerful solution
Sunset Boulevard choreographer Fabian Aloise tells Matthew Hemley about his unplanned but rewarding career journey, ahead of the West End opening of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
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