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RACHEL LYNES: The First Job

It’s week three of life after A Christmas Carol and I’m wondering how long I can utilise the sentence, “I’ve just finished working at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.” I figure I have a little longer before people catch on that A Christmas Carol was probably confined to the Christmas period and that I’m now unemp… [...]

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RACHEL LYNES: From pillar to Post It

This is my story of Post It notes. It begins at the end of a year playing a lead in a National tour of an Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical and it ends today…because today is as far as I can see right now My first Post It was a small pink square, which I stuck [...]

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Rachel Lynes: Peering at the past, pondering the present and facing the future

Rachel Lynes is a young actress who has currently finished a run at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds in a production of A Christmas Carol, directed by Nikolai Foster and previous credits also include playing the lead of Jenny in Nikolai Foster’s touring production of Aspects of Love and the famous heroine in Shakespeare’s Romeo [...]

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WHAT’S HOT – 31st January 2011

In the loud, boisterous world of theatre, the smaller projects often don’t get a look in. But away from the glitz of the West End and the headline-grabbing producing houses, there’s a vibrant fringe world. There’s the pub theatre showcasing international plays, the small venue run on love – and not much else, the director who isn’t in it [...]

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Catherine’s Blog: In Defence of the Musical

By Catherine Love This Saturday, by pure chance, I picked up The Independent. Pure chance because I usually read The Times at the weekend, more out of habit than anything else, and the only reason I was flicking through the pages of The Independent was because the local shop had sold out of my newspaper [...]

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Honour’s Blog: It is a fact universally acknowledged that a critic and an artist cannot be friends.

Can a Critic/Reviewer take a more hands on approach to the world in which we work? Honour Bayes takes a open, frank and very personal look into the role of the Critic.

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Becky’s Blog: Fancy a cheap ticket for a West End production?

Have you ever cringed at the price of West End theatre tickets and wished there was another way to see your favourite shows for less? Well now you can, with £10-£20 standby tickets.

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