Andrew Scott Had to Re-Learn Shakespeare for Elsinore

www.thewrap.com: Like many of Britain’s great actors, Andrew Scott is very familiar with “Hamlet,” having played the title role dozens of times on the West End. But to take on the role of Ian Charleson in “Elsinore,” he had to toss much of how he approached the Prince of Denmark out of the window…except for the memories of how much it took its toll.

Meet Michael Man, the versatile actor playing Gollum at the Stratford Festival

Intermission Magazine: There’s something delightfully impish about the way Michael Man moves onstage. I noticed it when I saw the actor in the Stratford Festival’s world premiere production of Jovanni Sy 施崇梵’s The Tao of the World as Dr. Wilson Wong, a sexually repressed, buttoned-up physician from Saskatchewan caught in the social chaos of a wealthy Singaporean family. I noticed it again in The Hobbit, when he played the instantly recognizable Gollum, a creature who has spent centuries skulking around Middle-earth obsessing over a certain band of gold.

In The Attic, Shana Carroll Reflects on a Life Spent on the Trapeze

Playbill: Shana Carroll’s distinguished career in the circus arts—during which she’s performed as a Cirque du Soleil soloist, co-founded the Montreal-based circus-theatre collective The 7 Fingers, and earned a Tony Award nomination as co-choreographer and circus designer for Water for Elephants—began with a simple yet transformative encounter at age 18.

Between Land and Tide: giant starfish washes up in Portsmouth in this apocalyptic performance art

theconversation.com: Five women slowly process across Portsmouth’s municipal park, covered in hessian-coloured layered fabrics. On their heads they wear what look like strange overgrown dreadlocks, making them a group of connected beings. They move towards a deflated hessian starfish shape on the floor. Circling it, they enact a ritual performance, animating the space and quietly paying homage to the five-armed symmetry of echinoderms.

Disneyland's Cast Members Work Behind the Scenes to Create Magic

variety.com: In a 400,000 square-foot warehouse in Anaheim, Disney cast members create magic. It’s the facility where cast members create decor for the park — right now they are putting the finishing touches on Halloween and have already started winter holiday-scapes — fix everything from restaurant appliances to the iconic spinning teacups

New Seattle improv program offers more than performance skills

The Seattle Times: Among the tools that have helped Seattleite Saya Jenks manage anxiety most effectively, here’s one that might seem unexpected: improv. The theatrical art of performing or enacting scenes with no script has also helped her create community when moving between cities, recover from the social isolation of the pandemic and learn to “embrace failure” and be “OK with things not going perfectly,” she said.

Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’

Theatre | The Guardian: “I feel like I’m imitating an American accent, but it really is mine,” Monica Barbaro jokes. The actor has spent the morning rehearsing in an English accent for her stage debut in the National Theatre’s revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. During interviews, she says, she switches back. “I feel it’s best to use my own voice.”

‘It feels like flying!’ Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe on child stardom, passion and the heady rush of Romeo and Juliet

Theatre | The Guardian: Noah Jupe and Sadie Sink are comparing their CVs. “Noah has more Shakespeare experience than me, for sure,” says Sink. “Oh yes, I think so,” replies Jupe. “How many lines?” asks Sink. “Quite a few, actually,” he reports. “More than 10!”

Four actors on the high-stakes art of being an understudy

www.thestar.com: Being an understudy is one of the most challenging roles in the theatre. These actors, who can be called on in a moment’s notice to step in when a lead actor cannot perform, are the living embodiment of the “the show must go on.” The Star recently spoke with four current and former understudies, who shared their insights on the unique role.

Pouring It On for PICT: Michael Patrick Trimm Takes on ‘The Smuggler,’ a Solo Thriller in Rhythmic Verse

onStage Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre first announced Michael Patrick Trimm in the role of bartender/smuggler/immigrant Tim Finnegan for March of last year, working with director Patrick Cannon and expected at Riley’s Pour House in Carnegie. Fate and fire intervened, and Riley’s burned to the ground in November 2024, with Trimm moving on to a two-hander, the excellent co-production King James, at both City Theatre and Cleveland Play House.

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with Christopher Borg

DC Theater Arts: Originally trained as an actor by the late Kenneth Washington at the University of Utah, and then in the classics as an Acting Fellow under the tutelage of Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, Christopher Borg has since gone on to a multi-award-winning career in NYC’s innovative off Broadway and indie theater scene.

Black Actress Sues Harvard Theater Over Horrific Hair Experience

www.theroot.com: Her story revolves around the 2025 production of “The Odyssey” that was taking place at Harvard University’s American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. While there, Imoru said she was made to get cornrows in her hair as required for her role.

How to Fill a Clown Car (Lessons from Julia Proctor’s Clown Gym)

HowlRound Theatre Commons: New York City, 2021. Isolated, over-snacked, and starved for a creative community, I joined a virtual playwriting group. I was writing an existential dark comedy (as one does during a pandemic-induced lockdown) and thought, this play has clowns. Where do I find those?

"The Gift That Keeps on Giving": An Interview with Carmelita Tropicana

www.thesegalcenter.org: For longtime frequenters of the downtown New York theatre scene, Carmelita Tropicana is a household name. In her decades-long career as a performance artist, actor, author, and teacher, she has built a body of work that alloys raucous humor and fantastical role play—with the help of a roster of memorable personas and characters—to interrogate the entanglements of queerness, ethnicity, nationality, and gender.

Re-sensitizing to Place in Site-Specific Performance

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Welcome to the third episode of Bridge Between Realities, a podcast produced for HowlRound Theatre Commons, a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide. My name is Tara Khozein. I’m a classical singer and theatre artist.

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar

Life and style | The Guardian: As someone committed to my craft, I’ve always believed that the show must go on. An accident in my second year of university took it to new extremes. It was the Exeter University theatre society’s annual play at the Edinburgh fringe and I’d landed the part of Cassius in Julius Caesar.

‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright

Theatre | The Guardian: Derek Jacobi had a bout of it during a world tour of Hamlet. Bill Nighy wrestled with it in the run-up to The Vertical Hour opening on Broadway. Juliet Stevenson has likened it to “a disease”. It has even caused some to take flight: Stephen Fry disappeared from Cell Mates, while Lenny Henry left the stage during Educating Rita. “I’ve completely gone,” he said – although he did return to finish the show.

How to Cultivate Useful Inner Feedback

Dance Magazine: Have you ever started class lying on the floor, eyes closed, listening as the teacher cues breath, imagery, or small movements, and found yourself craning your neck to peek around the room? Trying to figure out what the teacher meant, what everyone else was doing, what you were supposed to look like? You’re not alone. That moment is so common, and so revealing.

'Task' Dialect Coach Susanne Sulby on Teaching the Delco Accent

variety.com: Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s 2021 hit “Mare of Easttown,” from creator Brad Ingelsby. On “Mare,” southeastern Pennsylvanians were generally pleased with the way that Kate Winslet, Jean Smart and especially Evan Peters bravely tackled the sounds of the region.

Review: Aakash Odedra Company's 'Songs of the Bulbul' Brings Joy and Inspiration to the Byham Theater

onstagepittsburgh.com: Dancer, Choreographer, and Teacher Aakash Odedra‘s impressive resume features over 300 full-length performance credits across more than 40 countries, all in the past decade. What makes this triumph even more amazing is that Odedra’s performances are solo. Odedra boldly and fearlessly steps on stage alone and single-handedly mesmerizes audiences for over an hour.