Guest blog: Amy Lamé – push it real good
I have done quite a few crazy things on stage and television over the years. I’ve performed a safer sex show for gay men on Hampstead Heath at midnight, and...
Judi Dench
Review: Peter and Alice
John Logan’s new play Peter and Alice explores how stories and fantasy are used as escapism and can sterilise the pains of the past and present. Michael Grandag...
An Interview with Michael Grandage
Veronica Aloess speaks to Michael Grandage as his company's West End season opens, starring Sheridan Smith, David Walliams, Simon Russell Beale and Daniel Radcliffe.
Inside out: How old is too old to be an actor?
Age seems to be a big issue in life. We want to look younger, live longer, try many different and desperate ways to pursue youth – even when we hit our twenties...
The Wicked Stage: Emotional releases in musical theatre
Catharsis is a Greek word meaning ‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’. Aristotle explains catharsis as the "purging of the spirit of morbid and base ideas or emotio...
The Wicked Stage: Can musical theatre ever be naturalistic?
One of my biggest pet peeves is how musicals are often perceived as being as far from reality as you can get in theatre, because the characters sing and dance...