In this week’s issue of The Stage, we include our annual guide to summer school courses. Whether you’re a teenager interested in starting in the performing arts, a keen amateur hoping to hone your abilities or a professional wanting to learn new skills, there is a summer school course for you. Susan Elkin looks at some of the training on offer in 2008.
Plus, exclusively online, a Dear John special in which singer Lorna Marshall talks about the benefits of teaching summer courses.
Also this week:
With the ‘people’s Maria’ Connie Fisher leaving The Sound of Music last month, Andrew Lloyd Webber had a cunning plan to regenerate interest in the show and its new star. Alistair Smith talks to Summer Strallen about keeping her Hollyoaks plot line quiet and replacing a stage favourite
In an exclusive news report, Matthew Hemley talks to performers from BBC1’s The One and Only tribute show, with some claiming they have been left out of pocket and out of work
Insight: Rumours of the death of digital radio could not be more misleading, says Michael Quinn
Managing Director Craig Hassall has turned the English National Ballet around from an ailing company to taking on tours across the globe.
Maggie Brown on Media: The BBC’s Passion | Crediting the credits
Arthur Smith: Presenting TV can sometimes be fun
Dear John: “Is it really viable to run your own business alongside being a performer? Won’t one side or the other suffer?”
Training: The Little Angel Theatre is at the forefront of training in professional puppetry
Stars of The Fixer Andrew Buchan and Tamzin Outhwaite had very different routes to television success. They explain all to Mary Comerford
Voice coash Patsy Rodenburg has staged Shakespeare in maximum security prisons, taught in poor areas of India, braved knuckle-dusters in London and worked with the best of British talent
Joss Ackland talks to Matthew Hemley about his role as Big Daddy in Radio 3’s forthcoming adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and reveals that after eight years avoiding the theatre, he is considering a return to the stage
Backstage Focus: The new Rose Theatre in Kingston, with its medieval-style stage and tiered circular Elizabethan-type auditoria, is a wonderful homage to 16th-century design, write Geoffrey Joyce
Catapulted to stardom by her 1976 duet with Elton John, Kiki Dee’s career has followed a more laid-back path than her flamboyant partner. Dee talks to Michael Quinn about her ‘all-sorts’ career and touring with songwriter Carmelo Luggeri
Plus all the usual news, reviews, national UK theatre listings and recruitment ads.
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