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Some actors get 15 minutes of fame, Owain Johnston has had an hour. He won the BMDS Famous for 15 Minutes play-writing competition on Saturday evening — his fourth time. The prize was the much-coveted Golden Inkwell, and $250. Six 15-minute plays are...

Julia Frith joins the student body at one of the UK’s top drama schools next month; Rose Bruford College lists Hollywood actor Gary Oldman among its alumni. The 19-year-old isn’t hoping to follow in his footsteps, however. “The meaning and purpose o...

It’s playwright — W-R-I-G-H-T. As in shipwright or wheelwright. The point being that plays are never so much written as they are wrought: crafted, shaped and honed until they meet both the structural and artistic demands of the dramatic form. The key...

Looking for a way to kill somebody? BMDS is an unlikely venue for the solution but it’s offering just that. Nathaniel Butterfield’s ‘101 Ways to kill Janice’ is one of six plays that will be showcased as part of the 13th annual Famous for 15 Minutes...

What do you do on your way to work? Florence Graham Welton sings her way through the doldrums of the daily commute. The 11-year-old Bermuda High School student is now the youngest soloist in the BMDS pantomime, The Pied Piper. She says she is inspire...

Playwrights Justine Foster and Julia Pitt have taken the coveted Golden Inkwell after the latest round of the local dramatists’ showdown Famous for 15 Minutes. The annual contest was held at the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society’s Daylesford Theat...

The play really is the thing at the Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society’s annual Famous For Fifteen Minutes festival. A showcase for nurturing and celebrating local playwrights, this year’s selection of one-act dramas and comedies now being staged at ...

Some people are happy with having their two minutes in the spotlight. Local playwrights are hoping to get their hands on fifteen minutes of it — as they vie for the top spot in Bermuda Music and Dramatic Society’s (BMDS) annual playwright competition...

Five Bermudian students have each been awarded scholarships worth $5,000 towards their studies in the performing arts by the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society Charitable Trust. The recipients of the 2014 Kate Huntington Memorial Bursaries, which ...

A Smith’s woman has donated a total of $30,000 to various charities and to the performing arts as a way to give back to her community. To celebrate her 30th birthday, actress Nishanti Bailey decided to hold a play. The proceeds of her production Chai...

Listen very closely. I will say this only vonce. BBC classic comedy ‘Allo Allo’ is coming to the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society (BMDS) stage at 2000h [twenty-hundred hours]. Hide in the bar until the curtain opens. ‘Allo Allo’ ran from 1982 to ...