The Old Vic Association ran several events during the year; the annual Twelfth Night Party,[2] on or around 6 January, was particularly popular as was Shakespeare's birthday on or around 23 April.
Leading performers continued to write for the magazine; for example, Robert Helpmann reminisced about touring Australia as a fifteen year old, dancing on the same stage as Anna Pavlova;[6] Ethel Smyth asked 'Is Opera a Wash-Out in England?'.
The historian Reginald P. Mander gathered reminiscences and anecdotes from chorus girls and stars and the VWA Newsletter is the source for the story about Lilian Baylis's aunt, Emma Cons, not replying to Charlie Chaplin when he applied to work at the Old Vic because he didn't include a stamped addressed envelope.
[11] Another VWA event was a performance of John Webster's The White Devil on 5 March 1961, at the Old Vic, featuring Stephen Moore and Barbara Leigh-Hunt and directed by Peter Ellis.
[16] In 2011, the VWA subsidised a restaging of W.B.Yeats's 1934 dance play The King of the Great Clock Tower at the Royal Ballet School, directed by Richard Cave.