The Drama Student Magazine & Online - news, articles, interviews, blogs » Related News http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk Auditioning for drama school? Already training? This magazine is for you! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:40:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Interview: Brief Encounter With … Jenna Russell http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/interview-brief-encounter-with-jenna-russell/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/interview-brief-encounter-with-jenna-russell/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:40:02 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/interview-brief-encounter-with-jenna-russell/ Jenna Russell is playing the Baker’s Wife in the Open Air Theatre’s season closing revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, which opens on 16 August (previews from 6 August 2010).

The musical, which is staged to mark Sondheim’s 80th birthday,…

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Shoshana Bean – Live in the West End is produced by Jason
Haigh-Ellery, Hugh De La…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-galas-bean-at-ambassadors-barrowman-bares/feed/ 0 News: Cast: Lawson for Corrie!, Talented Ryan, Bedlam http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam-2/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam-2/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:40:02 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam-2/ Corrie!, the stage show version of Coronation Street, Britain’s longest-running soap opera, will star familiar face from ‘the street’ Charles Lawson as narrator.

Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the soap from 1989, remained as a regular characte…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam-2/feed/ 0 News: Cast: Lawson For Corrie!, Talented Ryan & Bedlam http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:27:32 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam/ Corrie!, the stage show version of Coronation Street, Britain’s longest-running soap opera, will star familiar face from ‘the street’, Charles Lawson, as narrator.

Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the soap from 1989, remained as a regular charac…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-cast-lawson-for-corrie-talented-ryan-bedlam/feed/ 0 News: Gambon Stars in Beckett’s Last Tape at Duchess http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-gambon-stars-in-becketts-last-tape-at-duchess/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-gambon-stars-in-becketts-last-tape-at-duchess/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:42:07 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-gambon-stars-in-becketts-last-tape-at-duchess/ As previously tipped, Michael Gambon will tackle Samuel Beckett’s monologue Krapp’s Last Tape in a limited season from 15 September to 20 November 2010 at the Duchess Theatre. The production transfers from Dublin’s Gate Theatre and is directed by Gat…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-gambon-stars-in-becketts-last-tape-at-duchess/feed/ 0 Photos: 1st Night Photos: New Cast Dances into Aldwych http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-new-cast-dances-into-aldwych/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-new-cast-dances-into-aldwych/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:40:02 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-new-cast-dances-into-aldwych/ The new cast of Dirty Dancing spent their first night (28 July 2010) onstage at the Aldwych Theatre, led by Royal Winnipeg Ballet dancer Johnny Wright as Johnny Castle.

He’s joined by So You Think You Can Dance winner Charlie Bruce and former X F…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-new-cast-dances-into-aldwych/feed/ 0 Review: Anne Boleyn http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/review-anne-boleyn/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/review-anne-boleyn/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:20:02 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/review-anne-boleyn/ “With her head tucked underneath her arm,” ran the old music hall song, and Howard Brenton’s muscular new history play begins with Miranda Raison pointing at a bloody bag and asking us, “Do you want to see it?”
She even…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/review-anne-boleyn/feed/ 0 Photos: 1st Night Photos: Cox is Donmar Prince Charming http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-cox-is-donmar-prince-charming/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-cox-is-donmar-prince-charming/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:11:25 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-cox-is-donmar-prince-charming/ Last night (27 July 2010, previews from 22 July) saw the opening of the Donmar Warehouse production of The Prince of Homburg, directed by Jonathan Mumby and starring Charlie Cox.

The play, written by Heinrich von Kleist in 1809, takes place in 17t…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/photos-1st-night-photos-cox-is-donmar-prince-charming/feed/ 0 News: Boris Johnson Turned into Toad Next to City Hall http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-boris-johnson-turned-into-toad-next-to-city-hall/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-boris-johnson-turned-into-toad-next-to-city-hall/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:20:02 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-boris-johnson-turned-into-toad-next-to-city-hall/ London Mayor Boris Johnson will find himself portrayed on stage next month in the shadow of City Hall.

Actor Paul Critoph is using Johnson as inspiration for the title character in Toad Hall!, a new musical version of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in…

Full published article at: Read more ...]]> http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-boris-johnson-turned-into-toad-next-to-city-hall/feed/ 0 News: Landor Gets Closer, Extends Joe’s with LaBarrie http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-landor-gets-closer-extends-joe%e2%80%99s-with-labarrie/ http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-landor-gets-closer-extends-joe%e2%80%99s-with-labarrie/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:41:21 +0000 tdsadmin http://www.thedramastudent.co.uk/2010/07/news-landor-gets-closer-extends-joe%e2%80%99s-with-labarrie/ The tiny Landor Theatre continues its musical success with an extension, and new leading lady, for its current production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, followed by a major revival of Maltby and Shire’s award-winning Off-Broadway revue Closer Than Ever.

I…

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