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Verbling is a web-based platform where individuals can pair up with native speakers to practice speaking new languages on live video, reports Mashable. Verbling was launched in 2011 when … [Read more...] about Verbling.com connects language learners with native speakers

Italian archaeologists have discovered a sacred mountain where ancient Etruscans worshipped gods and burned sacred objects in their honour during the Bronze Age 3000 years ago. Experts from the … [Read more...] about Etruscan Holy Site discovered near Viterbo

A lapse in Lindsay Lohan's health insurance - because she's not been working in the past year - has prevented her from paying for the psychological counseling ordered as part of her probation, her … [Read more...] about Lindsay Lohan’s too poor to pay a psychologist?

Just over 23 years ago, Stephen Evans, a corporate stockbroker bored with City life, took a punt on a promising young actor called Kenneth Branagh. With no previous experience in the arts, Evans put … [Read more...] about The man who made Kenneth Branagh: “It’s more difficult to get into RADA than it is to Oxbridge”

Terry Gilliam's production of  The Damnation of Faust is about to open at the English National Opera - here are some of his comments about opera, Faust and directing opera: “The operas I went to … [Read more...] about Terry Gilliam on directing The Damnation of Faust with his tongue stuck firmly in his cheek!

"I just loved Martha, although she was difficult and outrageous. It’s not a well-known fact about her, but she could be very funny. We’d laugh and laugh at rehearsals. I still think about her. She … [Read more...] about Paul Taylor on Martha Graham

Comedy writer Sol Saks, who created the 1960s US sitcom Bewitched, has died aged 100. He died on Saturday of respiratory failure as a result of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, his wife told … [Read more...] about Bewitched creator Sol Saks dies aged 100

Samuel L Jackson is to make his debut on Broadway this autumn, playing Martin Luther King Jr in a play first staged in London in 2009. Written by Katori Hall, The Mountaintop depicts the civil … [Read more...] about Samuel L Jackson will play Martin Luther King on Broadway

Like a flash mob they came at 24 hours' notice to hear Daniel Barenboim at Tate Modern, celebrating 60 years of public performance - and incidentally promoting three new releases from Universal … [Read more...] about Barenboim at Tate Modern performs for 400 lucky seated guests

"I think directing and choreographing have such a similarity: how to work with movement and motion and narration and emotion and creating images.... And I think having the ability to control the … [Read more...] about Benjamin Millepied gets the film bug

"He’s so incredibly loving and sensitive. He really is. He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with on a movie. And he’s not saintly, and he’s got a big mouth, and he’ll do gross things your … [Read more...] about “He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with” says Jodie Foster after directing Mel Gibson in a new film

"No one has ever hired me to take my clothes off and be sexy. No one. Not even when I was 25. But I’m funnier than I am sexy, so I’m hired to make jokes about sex; I’m not hired to do sex." … [Read more...] about Ted Danson on (not) being a sex symbol

"You have only so many variables you can hold in your brain. If those variables are stage elements, one must be actively engaged with all of them to draw a rich experience from a show. If the music … [Read more...] about The brain and dance: Rodolfo Llinas, professor of neuroscience at NYU School of Medicine, explains

At about the age of 15, my sister and I joined the local Big Little Theatre Company, and I learnt to stand in front of an audience and perform. It was also where I started to use my voice. We would … [Read more...] about Soprano Kate Royal on finding her voice in Bournemouth