To Audition, or Not to Audition
For some musical theatre programs, working professionally while in school is not an option, while others leave it up to the students.
Category Archives: Approaches to Theatre Training
The Case for a B.A. in Musical Theatre
Training programs offering undergrad musical theatre degrees provide students with tools for life onstage and beyond.
Matter Over Mind: How Actors Learn to Embody Ideas (and Animate Bodies)
All stage performers must strike a balance between ‘head’ work and physical theatre, but the main trick may be not to see them as separate.
An Actor Prepares: 6 Performers Detail Their Processes
Carrie Coon, Crystal Dickinson, Maria Dizzia, Daniel Duque-Estrada, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Jon Norman Schneider talk training, acting process, and the mind/body connection.
A Playwright’s Journey Through a Year of Physical Theatre Training at Dell’Arte
The writer shares her experience of spending 10 months in Blue Lake, Calif., at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
Running Away To Join Circus Theatre
How circus arts companies are training artists to become both actors and acrobats.
A Roundup of Physical Theatre Training Programs in the U.S.
Theatre companies and training programs are incorporating physical acting training to strengthen ensembles and improve performance.
Stages of Change
Theatre is born of collective effort and aspiration. Maybe that’s why it’s such a powerful vehicle of social engagement, and why activist artists are drawn to it.
The State of Cornerstone Theater’s Art
With “California: The Tempest,” the pioneering community-focused company is showcasing its influential methodology, as well as the institute it’s created to teach it to others.
To Do or To Teach? Is That Even a Question?
For the nation’s theatre teaching artists, “arts education” is a redundant phrase. Their own lives and careers prove it.
