Best British Playwrights
The top 10 British playwrights. 1. William Shakespeare 2. George Bernard Shaw 3. Noel Coward... See who else we consider the best British playwrights......
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Being an Actor in 2024
Buckle up, friends: this one’s a biggie. In this article, we’re talking about the year that lies ahead, and everything you can put towards being an actor in 2024. With most people winding down...
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Side Hustles For Actors
So you have started acting. This is it! You’re gonna be a damn millionaire: starring in feature films, touring the world for press—hell yeah, you’re living the dream! Literally, the dream. Waking up from...
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What is Subtext in Acting?
Words unspoken. Meaningful silences. Talking around the subject. In all of human interaction, subtext can be found wherever we need to convey our thoughts and feelings but don’t want to come right out and...
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Best Romantic Comedies for Actors
Romantic Comedies. Some people absolutely love them and herald performances by some of the greatest actors of all time as the focal point of their value. Other people completely despise them as vacuous, lowest...
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How to Work Internationally as an Actor
So you wanna follow those thousands of actors before you, pack your life into a suitcase, jump on a bus/boat/plane and go international to really take your acting career to the next level? Love...
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Best American Playwrights
A list of the best American playwrights. See who we consider the 10 top American playwrights......
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot first premiered in 1953, and has long been considered one of the greatest plays of all time. The play, though seemingly simple, is dense and widely interpretable. This play is...
The Crucible
Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, is one of the greatest plays of all time. It is a four act tragedy, that must be seen or read by all actors. There is a good film version with...
Visitors want more acting tips! (Poll Results)
Thanks you to everyone who voted in our most recent poll. It was great to get some feedback from our visitors about what they want to see more of on the site. We will definitely...
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone is one of Sophocles seven surviving plays. It is widely considered on of the best plays of all time. For any actor, this is an essential play to read. Antigone Synopsis The Palace of...
Iago Crowned (Poll Results)
The cunning and deceptive Iago takes the top spot as your favourite Shakespeare character. Lady Macbeth came a close second, followed by Beatrice from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. We have taken the polling results and...
Best Shakespeare Characters
After our recent poll we felt it was time we put together a list of best Shakespeare characters. The Bard created some of the most interesting and unique characters in all of Western literature, and...
Best Euripides Plays
About Euripides… One of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece, Euripides has given us some of the greatest plays of all time. Medea, the number one on our list of best Euripides plays, is...
Best Christopher Marlowe Plays
About Marlowe… Christopher Marlowe was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Born in fact in the same year, he was an eminent playwright of the Elizabethan era. Though today his name doesn’t share the same familiarity...