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During a recent dinner party with friends, the discussion turned to books and finding or making time to read and, almost universally, we all expressed a desire to read more often. I find myself guilty of not making enough time to read for pleasure, s

It was recently announced that performances of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall have been extended to April 2024, making it London’s longest running site specific theatre production. Since opening in 2017, the produ

We’re in congenial tea shop in Balcombe in West Sussex where a homely lady in a traditional white pinny has served us tea, coffee and fruit scones. William has suggested this pretty village venue because I live in London and it’s a convenient spot ha

Young people care deeply about the arts and the role that the arts play in both their formal and informal learning journeys. Research carried out by the RSC has shown that young people not only see arts and creative subjects as a key contributor to w

When Julian Chenery founded Shakespeare 4 Kidz twenty-five years ago he had a young family. I interviewed him – and them – for a national newspaper not long after S4K launched. Today, three of his four adult children are professionally involved in th

There isn’t a child in the world who doesn’t like a story” declares Rachael, who tells me she’s a voracious reader herself. “But some will tell you that they hate reading and that acts like a narcotic for me as I set out to find ways of hooking them.

It made theatre history. When, in 1963, Joan Littlewood and her company famously devised Oh! What a Lovely War and staged it at Theatre Royal Stratford East, nobody had ever seen anything like it. It developed into a biting satire about the futility

Before the Andy Warhol that we all know for his Marilyns and Soup cans created his factory in New York, he was a jobbing graphic designer, and a successful one at that. The latest exhibition at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum aims to fill the gap

How do you choose fiction to share in class? The National Curriculum programme of study says that Key Stage 3 students are “expected to read whole books, to read in depth and to read for pleasure and information”. Beyond that, the teacher has quite a

Three weeks of intensive acting training, the Acting Summer Boot Camp is designed to offer an introduction and access to world-class drama school training. Mountview’s expert staff deliver 90 hours of training in our purpose-built and cutting-edge bu

A YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO VOCAL HEALTH By Olivia Sparkhall Published by Compton Publishing If you are a teenager serious about singing – solo work, choirs, chorales, madrigal groups, musical theatre and so on – then you have to regard your voice as y

Gypsy, which premiered in 1959, is loosely based on the 1957 memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee (1911-1970), highly successful American burlesque stripper. It has been revived many times and the story is very familiar – the championing of one child at the expe

What are you doing today? We’re now in rehearsal for Private Lives which I’m directing, Unusually I’m not directing Romeo and Juliet which was our season opener for OVO’s three-month open-air summer season at Roman Theatre at St Albans. How did you g