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The latest issue of Young Performer magazine is hot off the press. Packed with interviews, features and competitions, as well as advice from industry experts, YP is the only magazine for young performers... so get in on the act!

As well as all the news from the performing arts world, the May/June issue of Young Performer is bursting with features:

• There's a new Fairytale Princess in town! Lily Collins, daughter of music legend Phil Collins, talks exclusively to Young Performer about her starring role as Snow White in the magical Hollywood movie 'Mirror, Mirror'


• Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson tell YP about starring in box office smash 'The Hunger Games' and how it feels to be 2012's hottest rising stars


• Come to Hogwarts! The Harry Potter films have been entertaining the world for the past 11 years and now a new studio tour is giving fans the chance to see how they were made. YP jumps aboard a Nimbus 2000 to find out more


• Round and Round the Garden: One of the most exciting theatrical events of 2012 promises to be a new version of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' playing in Kensington Gardens this Summer. YP explains why


• World famous children's author Michael Rosen talks to YP about bringing stories to life


• It's Titanic! With an £11 million budget, 82 people in the cast, 2,500 extras and 1,100 costumes, ITV's four-part series has been billed as Britain's most expensive drama. Young Performer goes the behind the scenes to report on the making of a television colossus.


• Do you hoot when someone slips on a banana skin? Does seeing a custard pie thrown at someone make you roar with laughter? If so, you'll enjoy the School of Slapstick! YP paid a visit to London's whackiest workshop


• On Your Feet! Are you crazy about dance? Then this is a good time for you, because dance is big in the run-up to the Olympics. There's plenty to see and, also, plenty of opportunities to strut your stuff at one of the big dance events that are part of the Cultural Olympiad, a marathon of arts, culture events and performances happening around the UK. YP picks out some of the best on offer


• Would you love to be in the music biz, but aren't a performer? There are some great backstage careers available and to find out more YP hooks up with Sound Engineer Karen Lauke


• PLUS take part in a live 'Doctor Who' adventure, meet rising actor/singer Alexander Newton, enrol in Film School, pick up some top advice from performing arts expert John Byrne and much, much more

Young Performer is the only national performing arts magazine for young people. Inspired by Stagecoach and published by Ten Alps Creative, the magazine is designed to appeal to those young people for whom acting, singing and dancing is a passion. With six issues a year, the focus is to entertain, inform and educate through articles, interviews, news stories, quizzes and competitions.

All Stagecoach students from Stage One upwards receive a copy of the magazine as it comes out, but if you would like to receive copies of Young Performer please visit: http://www.stagecoach.co.uk/stagecoach/html/subscribe.php or telephone: 0208 950 9117. Subscription is £10.95 a year.

"If Young Performer had been available when I was young I know I would have been an avid reader. I think it's a tremendous magazine."
Dame Jacqueline Wilson

"This magazine is absolutely wicked, it's a real inspiration to any young performer out there, a really novel approach."
Dani Harmer, TV's Tracy Beaker