Archive for December, 2009

When it comes to learning to act, every British would be actor wants to get in to RADA but it only takes 32 new students a year on its full time acting course. There are no academic criteria and the audition is all important. As with a lot of acting schools, RADA offers scholarships and bursaries.  The school also runs short courses, acting workshops, technical courses and specialist courses in Shakespeare.

Looking at the other side of the Atlantic, probably, one of the most popular acting schools is the New York High School for Performing Arts, based in Manhattan. The public is very familiar with this establishment through the fictionalized stories dramatized in the movie and TV series, Fame. This school also provides scholarships and courses can be taken in theatre production, dance, visual arts and music, in addition to drama. Entry is secured through a good audition but academic levels and attendance are monitored during the student’s studies.