This summer, I spent nearly a month in Greece, rehearsing my play Six Seeds for performances by American actors, in Greek, in four mountain villages.
Sage is one of the busiest humans I know – if she's not teaching free workshops on how to create urban gardens, she's organising a feminist protest or rehearsing with her latest bandmates.
An organist was rehearsing for a concert the next day and, although most of the cathedral was dark, the lights still shone in the nave.
Its namesake, South Africa's greatest playwright, Athol Fugard, was rehearsing his latest play there while we were performing.
Sharing the bill will be Sir Paul McCartney and our conversation is punctuated by the distant strains of the former Beatle rehearsing – the chords of Get Back reverberating around the corrugated metal walls.
When we met again, in 1991, Cliburn was rehearsing for the opening concert of Carnegie Hall's centenary celebrations.
Mitchell is halfway through five weeks of rehearsals for Forbidden Zone, a play that will premiere at the Salzburg festival in August – though rehearsing is perhaps not quite the right word.
It's in these same derelict steelworks that the six redundant workers, who once manned a strip mill, end up rehearsing their strip routine.
Over in the Sheffield Boxing Centre in Hillsborough, Glynn Rhodes MBE remembers the cast rehearsing in his gym.
The owner of the garage – a "slum" where the actors have been rehearsing and performing – has been warned to cease collaboration with BFT, or his house will be demolished.
It was as though he was rehearsing for major rebellions.
