Many people change their careers especially when they are young, and some of them just yearn to tread the boards and become an actor. But without attending RADA and no prior acting experience, just how do you begin to start a career in acting? The lucky ones that have attended drama school may be still […]
Our final part in the series of the best musicals of all time looks at alternatives to Les Miserables which was recently voted in a radio station poll as the best musical ever. We have already highlighted some serious contenders to vie against Les Mis, and in our concluding part we look at even […]
The second part of our article concludes the history of British theater and relays how in the mid-1600’s that the theater was still under the control of the monarchy and the restrictions the reign of Charles II imposed on English playwrights. More Royal Interference The 1600’s in England saw great upheaval and political unrest, […]
The second part of our blog to discover the best musical of all time takes us back to Broadway and the West End of London to singalong to even more great songs. In part one we looked at The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Sweeney Todd, and now we follow the Yellow Brick […]
There have been many fabulous musical productions on the West End and Broadway that it is really hard to pick which one is possibly the best ever. In a recent survey by a UK radio station, the listeners voted Les Miserables as their favorite musical of all time, but in this blog, we thought we […]
An actor is someone who portrays a character, either on stage, in a movie, or on television. Contrary to popular belief, it is hard work acting. Many times, people will watch movies and talk about how they could’ve done a better job acting and people assume that actors and actresses simply lucked up and became […]
There is a certain jealousy among actors to those that have been classically taught. This jealousy often comes from the actors of Hollywood who have been selected for their roles because of physical attributes or beauty. The term classically trained normally refers to those British actors that have attended RADA and undergone years of […]
The last and concluding part of the series on the best theaters in Britain takes to the theatrical road once again, and this time visits the home of Shakespeare and also to one of the oldest theaters in the world. All the theaters featured in this blog are in England and all have long theatrical […]
Our second theatrical round up of the great theaters of Great Britain looks at the Welsh capital, revisits London, and travels up north to Glasgow to visit the iconic Citizen’s Theater. Theater is an institution for the people of Great Britain, and the experience of people gathering together to enjoy live performances has captured the […]
Britain is famed all over the world to have produced some of the best playwrights, actors and plays that have ever lived. The British theater has, for a long time, been a cultural institution in this historic nation and has represented all segments of society. The iconic British theater has presented serious literature, hosted music […]