Actors’ and Performers’ Yearbook 2020
Actors’ and Performers’ Yearbook 2020 is now on sale, featuring updated essential contacts for stage, screen and radio along with fresh advice from industry experts.
Book Extracts
Ten Steps to Launch Your Acting Career
Actor Rob Ostlere offers essential advice from his book The Actor’s Career Bible for any actors launching their career.
The Opera Singer’s Acting Toolkit
Read an extract from Martin Constantine’s new book The Opera Singer’s Acting Toolkit which offers opera singers an essential guide to creating a role on stage.
A Beginners Guide to Devising Theatre
Read about the Methuen Drama plays and authors performing at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe including Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd.
Working Towards Success: Rob Ostlere, The Actor’s Career Bible
Actor Rob Ostlere offers helpful advice from his new book The Actor’s Career Bible
Acting Exercises for 8-18 Year Olds
Read sample exercises from Samantha Marsden’s new book 100 Acting Exercises for 8-18 year olds to inspire classroom and drama club participation.
Staging Musicals: Director Matthew White on Researching a Musical
Read an extract from director Matthew White’s new book Staging Musicals in which he discusses the research process for the creative team.
Julie Hesmondhalgh a Working Diary
Read an extract from actor and activist Julie Hesmondhalgh’s Working Diary which documents a year in her life.
Beyond #metoo
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 Alyssa Milano to tweet, “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”
Interview with Andy Blankenbuehler
This interview is an excerpt taken from Creating Musical Theatre: Conversations with Broadway Directors and Choreographers (2013), by Lyn Cramer.
CRAMER: I want to ask you about choreographic approach