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Pegasus Theatre appoints Jonathan Lloyd

Jonathan Lloyd is onto pastures new after seven years at the Polka Theatre...

Roxana Silbert

Roxana Silbert is the artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre which is re-opening in September. LESLEY FINLAY spoke to the dynamic woman who came to a career in theatre relatively late...

Northern Art Prize: the runners and riders

The Northern Art Prize supports artists living in the ...errrr... north of England. Here we introduce the prize and the artists....

Trestle: the power of the mask

Drama teacher ZOE NEAGLE explains how working with a professional theatre company like Trestle can add enormous value to the learning and confidence of students...

Pass it on: April

Share these lovely creative ideas with your colleagues....

Noticeboard: April

The latest news and views from around the world of the arts...

A Riot of our Own, Night and Day with The Clash

Johnny Green and Garry Barker's classic book on The Clash gets the audiobook treatment...

The Disgrace of Kitty Grey by Mary Hooper

Pamela McFarland enjoys another historical helping from Mary Hooper...

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men (/Women) 2

LESLEY FINLAY enjoys delving into this new collection from Oberon Books...

Anne Cassidy on The Murder Notebooks

Anne Cassidy is a celebrated writer of young adult fiction, noted for the Murder Notebooks series which are not shy in coming forward on the subject of crime. Here she shares why crime is a good subject for your students...

1. Pass it on: April

    

   Share this mini round-up of news for your colleagues from The Education Show…

2. Where there’s a Will, there’s a play…

    

   We asked two artistic directors their views of the continuing appeal of Shakespeare..

3. Ghost coming up

    

   Anyone of a certain age will never forget the tear-jerker Ghost starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Should be an interesting experience then, to see this on the Manchester and London stages this year. Ghost The Musical will premiere at the Opera House, Manchester, from March 28 then transfer to London. To book visit www.ghostthemusical.com/tickets

4. Planning ahead – or not

    

   Coming up in the distant future at Tate Liverpool is Alice In Wonderland, which features paraphernalia about the Lewis Carroll classic, including the original manuscript, photographic portraits of the Liddell family, Victorian children’s games, paintings and moving images. The exhibition starts on November 4. Now that’s forward planning… For those of a more ‘let’s just [...]

5. Bank on a good show

    

   Those pesky banks – never do any good? Well, you haven’t seen the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production. This idea of genius offers 14,000 free tickets to Year 9 London students to see a professional production at Shakespeare’s Globe. This year the youngsters will be treated to Macbeth. The series runs until March 11 [...]

6. Support local theatre

    

   Time to spend some money in this age of austerity - at your local theatre, that is...

7. A new place to play

    

   The RSC finally gets down to business with performances at its stunning new theatre...

8. Classics at the cinema

    

   Thanks to technology, more and more of us can enjoy top theatre in a very different way...

9. Listen up to Marx and Engels

    

   The Communist Manifesto is being released by Naxos as an audio book. Lesley Finlay had a listen...

10. A Titanic show

     

    A new exhibition about the Titanic draws crowds at the O2...