Actors and Performers Blog

Celebrate 60 Years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series with this special edition box set of titles as voted for by the public.

Actor Rob Ostlere offers helpful advice from his new book The Actor's Career Bible

Read sample exercises from Samantha Marsden's new book 100 Acting Exercises for 8-18 year olds to inspire classroom and drama club participation.

Read an extract from director Matthew White's new book Staging Musicals in which he discusses the research process for the creative team.

Read an extract from actor and activist Julie Hesmondhalgh's Working Diary which documents a year in her life.

Methuen Drama attend the Surviving Actors 2019 conference in London. Read about our day and seminar with Daniel Dresner.

As with most things in the acting world there is no ‘right way’ when it comes to putting a letter or email together. The following advice comes from interviews I’ve…

For the last 2 weeks of June 2014, I was in Calgary working with Keith Johnstone (as his Literary Executor) preparing and packing his personal archive (or a portion of…

Film and stage are quite similar in that they both are looking for truthful behavior within imaginary circumstances, or to quote Stanislavski, "Actors must live privately in public" regardless of…

In October 2017, the The New York Times published an article accusing Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual harassment and assault. The entertainment industry’s apparent astonishment caused actress…