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Interviews and more from the world of professional theatre right across the UK.

Episode Date
Twelfth Night in Regent's Park, London
Apr 18, 2024
Now, I See continues Malaolu's family trilogy at Stratford East
Apr 13, 2024
Greg Hicks is Dostoyevsky's Ridiculous Man in London
Mar 19, 2024
fix+foxy brings alternative Wild West story to Manchester
Feb 08, 2024
imitating the dog follows Dracula and Living Dead with Frankenstein
Jan 28, 2024
New Roald Dahl family theatre; Witches and Croc are just the start
Jan 18, 2024
Almond's Ella Grey to open at home in Newcastle
Jan 11, 2024
Gecko's migration stories travel to the National
Dec 20, 2023
Mark Thomas on England & Son
Nov 17, 2023
Stephen Schwartz on bringing The Prince from screen to stage and back to screen
Oct 17, 2023
Tamasha brings Indian partition to Manchester via Dickens
Aug 30, 2023
Willie White on the 2023 Dublin Theatre Festival
Aug 23, 2023
Edinburgh 2023: backhold wrestling at the Traverse
Aug 16, 2023
Michie and Young in new Arnott Summer Portrait
Jul 28, 2023
Mei Mac: from 4-year-old to century-old prisoner of Western stereotypes
Jul 19, 2023
As You Like It matured at the RSC
Jul 14, 2023
Edfringe 2023: Graeae's Jenny Sealey returns to performing after three decades
Jul 08, 2023
Zero-waste theatre The Greenhouse tours Docklands
May 17, 2023
Gypsy opens Pitlochry rep season
May 04, 2023
This is Kneehigh: online
Apr 26, 2023
Frank Exchanges with David Wood OBE
Apr 15, 2023
Factory launches Manchester International Festival 2023
Mar 15, 2023
David Greig resurrects The Egyptians
Feb 16, 2023
Ghost stories and gritty realism from Paradise Heights to Blaine Manor
Feb 09, 2023
Stage Door Jonny, a love letter to the stage
Feb 05, 2023
Ex-Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan takes panto online
Dec 23, 2022
Return to the VAULTS: London festival is back in 2023
Dec 16, 2022
Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 winners
Nov 15, 2022
Not Too Tame opening for Shakespeare North's Midsummer
Oct 17, 2022
MIF announces Factory opening for October 2023
Oct 06, 2022
Jekyll and Hyde divided between Derby and Hornchurch
Sep 20, 2022
Adrian Scarborough adapts Alan Bennett for Nottingham
Sep 13, 2022
Gitika on Road back to Oldham
Sep 07, 2022
Edfringe 2022: Peter Straker takes us on a musical theatre adventure
Aug 12, 2022
Edfringe 2022: Mischief returns to Edinburgh
Aug 04, 2022
Edfringe 2022: Any questions for QI creator John Lloyd?
Jul 28, 2022
27th GDIF brings free outdoor performance to London
Jul 23, 2022
Edfringe 2022: Jon Culshaw brings Morecambe team to Les Dawson
Jul 14, 2022
David Sefton at the Gulbenkian: from London to LA to Adelaide to Kent
Jul 09, 2022
Sally Rogers revives '80s Stockport in London
Jun 07, 2022
New Contact Artistic Director Keisha Thompson
Apr 04, 2022
Les Enfants' Chicken Legs comes to roost at HOME
Mar 28, 2022
Cameron's sold-out play For Black Boys transfers to Royal Court
Mar 21, 2022
Pilot brings Australian refugee story to UK
Feb 02, 2022
Vikki Stone: panto for the 2020s in Hammersmith
Dec 04, 2021
Nathaniel Parker returns as Henry VIII in RSC's Mantel trilogy
Oct 08, 2021
Ravenhill and Price jointly take over London's oldest pub theatre
Aug 25, 2021
Restarting the Edinburgh Festivals: Guy Masterson on his 27th Fringe
Aug 19, 2021
Brighton Fringe returns both online and in live venues
Apr 23, 2021
Comedian Kevin Day joins appeal for support and recognition for the live events industry
Mar 30, 2021
Staged star hears out leading theatre actors performing favourite speeches
Mar 23, 2021
UK Theatres at Risk in 2021
Feb 18, 2021
An adventurous 70th anniversary season at Pitlochry after a challenging 2020
Feb 12, 2021
Talawa tells verbatim tales from black frontline workers
Dec 11, 2020
Peter Polycarpou takes online audiences back to the music of the Roaring Twenties
Nov 21, 2020
Pursued by a Bear takes Nothing on Earth online
Sep 28, 2020
Theatre in a time of Pandemic
Sep 04, 2020
Kneehigh strikes out with post-lockdown plans in 40th anniversary year
Aug 28, 2020
Told by an Idiot invites families to Get Happy at Greenwich+Docklands
Aug 21, 2020
New Tara Arts Artistic Director Abdul Shayek
Aug 14, 2020
Godspell 50th anniversary concert streaming worldwide
Jul 29, 2020
Beats & Elements brings working class voices and beatboxing to online theatre
Jun 26, 2020
New Perspectives presents all-star recordings of David Rudkin pieces
Jun 21, 2020
All-star cast broadcasts to the world from Huddersfield
May 01, 2020
Slung Low streams civil war from Leeds
Apr 24, 2020
HOME brings Homemakers into your homes
Mar 27, 2020
Long John Silver sets sail for Derby Theatre for Easter
Mar 14, 2020
Dickens ascends Ramps on the Moon in Leeds and on tour
Feb 28, 2020
Crossing the Atlantic: NYT theatre critic Ben Brantley on theatre in New York and London
Feb 21, 2020
Sansom brings Barrie's Quality Street to the home of the chocolates, then on tour
Feb 12, 2020
See six varied plays in six days at Pitlochry
Feb 05, 2020
Crongton Knights ride into Coventry
Jan 29, 2020
imitating the dog recreates Romero horror classic for the stage
Jan 22, 2020
Jamie writer on awards to diverse Visionary creators
Jan 16, 2020
BTG podcast reaches 200: hear from our reviewers
Jan 13, 2020
Scrooge flies into Derby for Christmas
Nov 08, 2019
Supporting Mame in Manchester
Nov 02, 2019
Chekhov's Seagull adaptation rocks Bolton Library
Oct 24, 2019
Rich Kids of Tehran (and elsewhere) come to Manchester
Oct 17, 2019
Ongoing Mischief at the Vaudeville—and spreading
Oct 03, 2019
A gender-switched Enemy of the People in Nottingham
Sep 28, 2019
New management team at the Rep
Sep 12, 2019
Three decades of a male friendship on tour in Under Three Moons
Sep 06, 2019
One Man, Two Theatres: Richard Bean's comedy in Derby and Hornchurch
Aug 29, 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Shakespeare for Breakfast and Paines Plough's Roundabout
Aug 21, 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Owen O'Neill is Shaving the Dead
Aug 12, 2019
Edinburgh 2019: The Wardrobe Ensemble and Daniel Bye
Aug 03, 2019
Classic Thrillers return to Nottingham Theatre Royal
Jul 28, 2019
New Octagon Artistic Director launches her first season
May 19, 2019
Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester
May 10, 2019
Lisa Holdsworth: bringing Andrea Dunbar's story back to Bradford
May 03, 2019
Braham Murray: how the Royal Exchange Theatre was born in Manchester
Apr 26, 2019
MIF 2019: John McGrath, Leo Warner and Phelim McDermott
Apr 05, 2019
Derby Theatre takes BSL to the Jungle
Mar 30, 2019
MIF launch 2019
Mar 09, 2019
From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant
Feb 26, 2019
Box of Tricks sets spark to new play from Manchester actor and writer David Judge
Feb 14, 2019
Much Ado About Benedick at Northern Broadsides
Feb 01, 2019
New consortium for theatre for young people stages Blackman's Noughts and Crosses
Jan 27, 2019
Three years of actors' honesty with Jonathan Harden
Dec 23, 2018
Christmas Crimes in Lichfield
Dec 08, 2018
"Follow your dream"—to the Marlowe's Cinderella
Dec 02, 2018
Hansel and Gretel follow the trail to Derby for Christmas
Nov 24, 2018
Enter pantoland with Imagine Theatre at 14 UK venues
Nov 13, 2018
Director Lily Sykes on bringing Genet's Maids to Manchester Home
Nov 03, 2018
Pauline McLynn brings Courage to Red Ladder's fiftieth birthday
Oct 10, 2018
Fo at Broadsides: translating '70s Italian political farce to Brexit Britain
Oct 02, 2018
RashDash on what we may find in their (and our) Future Bodies
Sep 26, 2018
Rankin's Inspector Rebus embarks on first UK tour
Sep 22, 2018
SBC Theatre considers Where We Began with migrant stories
Sep 15, 2018
Jude Christian directs othellomacbeth at HOME Manchester
Sep 07, 2018
Stella Duffy: bringing Joan Littlewood's idea of fun to a palace near to you
Aug 12, 2018
Edinburgh 2018: Rick Conte on The Time Machine and Guy Masterson's 25th Fringe
Aug 02, 2018
Bringing the thrills back to the Royal in Nottingham
Jul 26, 2018
Hopkins and Middleton are The One in Soho
Jun 24, 2018
Take a bus to a Summer Holiday in Bolton
May 29, 2018
Filament Theatre brings Space Rabbit down to Earth
May 22, 2018
Theatre in Paris opened up for English-speaking theatre-goers
Apr 26, 2018
Tiger Lillies bring Mexico to Manchester
Apr 18, 2018
Jake Murray brings Jesus to Elysium in Manchester and Durham
Apr 11, 2018
Our online Legacy explored across the generations at York Theatre Royal
Apr 06, 2018
Brining brings Proclaimers' Leith Sunshine to Leeds
Mar 25, 2018
Tribute to John Blackmore, featuring Mark Babych
Mar 18, 2018
Community drama class comes HOME in Circle Mirror Transformation
Mar 06, 2018
McKenzie and Mousley are Cartwright's Two in Derby
Mar 01, 2018
Greene's Brighton Rock opens in York—with Bryony Lavery, Esther Richardson and Hannah Peel
Feb 23, 2018
Joseph Houston on the rapid rise of Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre
Jan 30, 2018
Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu's Homecoming in New York
Jan 23, 2018
HOME Manchester gives PUSH to Manchester theatre creators
Jan 16, 2018
Village Voice critic Feingold on New York theatre 2017/18
Jan 12, 2018
Andrew Pollard: around the UK in 6 pantos
Dec 07, 2017
Atack Heartworms his way to £16,000 Bruntwood top prize
Dec 01, 2017
Sally Cookson on adapting C S Lewis to in-the-round at the Quarry
Nov 10, 2017
Asylum and refuge: Theatre of Sanctuary from SBC
Nov 03, 2017
Vanya comes HOME to Manchester for Revolution centenary
Oct 25, 2017
TakeOver Festival at York Theatre Royal
Oct 17, 2017
Adam Penford on taking over Nottm Playhouse
Oct 14, 2017
Hear from Rita, Sue and Bob Too: Out of Joint tours Andrea Dunbar revival
Oct 04, 2017
Great Expectations: Dickens in Derby
Sep 29, 2017
Investigating Calderdale's relationship with water with 509 in Halifax
Sep 26, 2017
Gilly Roche on new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse
Sep 21, 2017
For Love or Money: Blake Morrison and Northern Broadsides
Sep 18, 2017
Kevin Fegan on The Ruck, The Shed Crew and 30 years as a playwright
Sep 13, 2017
Edinburgh 2017: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan and Mark Fisher
Sep 08, 2017
Graeme Macrae Burnet at the Book Festival and Milly Thomas at the Fringe
Sep 04, 2017
Lara Foot of Baxter Theatre and Monica Dolan, Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Aug 17, 2017
All We Ever Wanted... Hull's Middle Child at Latitude
Jul 13, 2017
Clod Ensemble's On the High Road - Festival Edit at Latitude
Jul 09, 2017
Suffragettes in York from York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre
Jun 12, 2017
Ellie Harrison on latest Grief Series work The Unfair
May 08, 2017
Wertenbaker's Winter Hill in Bolton
May 02, 2017
Barrie Rutter on Richard III and 25 years of Northern Broadsides
Apr 26, 2017
Looking into The Darkest Corners with RashDash
Apr 17, 2017
Amy Letman on Transform Festival in Leeds
Apr 14, 2017
MIF launch 2017
Mar 27, 2017
Pinter's Betrayal in Derby
Mar 12, 2017
Playwright Lizzy Nunnery on Narvik for Box of Tricks
Jan 23, 2017
Village Voice's Michael Feingold on the New York theatre scene
Jan 17, 2017
Conrad Lynch on his first season at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake
Dec 22, 2016
New Perspectives on rural touring of classic ghost story
Nov 27, 2016
Joyce Branagh on directing Huddersfield theatre's first panto
Nov 13, 2016
Alex Chisholm on North Country from Freedom Studios
Oct 16, 2016
Luke Wright's What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
Oct 04, 2016
Hugh Maynard and Sophie-Louise Dann on Sweeney Todd at Derby Theatre
Sep 24, 2016
Kate Anthony on playing Priestley with Northern Broadsides
Sep 18, 2016
Edinburgh 2016: Joyce McMillan on 35 years of Theatre in Scotland
Sep 07, 2016
Edinburgh 2016: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan, Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper
Sep 02, 2016
Edinburgh 2016: Bucket List, Glass Menagerie, Ghost Quartet
Aug 30, 2016
Phelim McDermott talks Improbable and Animo
Aug 11, 2016
Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham Theatre Royal
Aug 04, 2016
The Paper Birds go Mobile in a caravan
Jul 28, 2016
Writer Nell Dunn on her 50-year writing career
Jul 23, 2016
Roxanne Pallett on Some Girls and The Wedding Singer
Jul 07, 2016
Vicky McClure & new John Harvey adaptation for Nottingham's Sweet Vengeance
Jun 20, 2016
Puppet State does Tolkien's Niggle in Scotland
Apr 28, 2016
Neil Duffield on adapting E M Forster science fiction tale
Apr 22, 2016
Evan Placey on writing WiLd for tutti frutti
Apr 03, 2016
The Glass Menagerie at Nottingham Playhouse
Mar 13, 2016
Look Back in Anger's 60th at Derby Theatre
Mar 06, 2016
Michael Harrison on producing pantos and West End musicals
Feb 23, 2016
New York theatre: Jeremy Herrin and Jesse Berger
Jan 16, 2016
Michael Feingold on the current New York theatre scene
Jan 09, 2016
Donovan Christian Cary in panto in Aldershot
Jan 03, 2016
Alex Wright of The Flanagan Collective on The Great Gatsby at The Fleeting Arms in York
Dec 19, 2015
Inkheart: HOME Manchester's first Christmas
Dec 03, 2015
A tale of two Snow Whites: Natasha Holmes of Tell Tale Hearts and Liv Lorent of balletLORENT
Nov 23, 2015
Playwright Emma Reeves on Snow Child for tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal
Oct 01, 2015
Pilot Theatre's Outsiders, re-imagining Camus
Sep 25, 2015
Robert Powell on playing King Charles III and his 50-year career
Sep 20, 2015
Michael Billington on his career and new book The 101 Greatest Plays
Sep 08, 2015
Conrad Nelson on The Winter's Tale for Northern Broadsides
Sep 02, 2015
Critics Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper on Edinburgh 2015
Aug 28, 2015
Richard Jordan on EIF and Edfringe
Aug 24, 2015
Fergus Linehan, director of Edinburgh International Festival
Aug 20, 2015
EdFringe 2015: actor and writer Pip Utton and comedian and animator Howard Read
Aug 15, 2015
EdFringe 2015: playwright Philip Meeks, James Seager of Les Enfants Terribles and Guy Masterson
Aug 04, 2015
David Slack and Annika Edge on 24:7 Theatre Festival 2015
Jul 18, 2015
The Lowry Studio Showcase 2015
Apr 25, 2015
Ella Carmen Greenhill and Adam Quayle on Plastic Figurines for Box of Tricks
Mar 31, 2015
Elizabeth Newman on becoming new Octagon Theatre Bolton artistic director
Mar 22, 2015
Barrie Rutter and Catherine Kinsella on performing King Lear with Northern Broadsides
Feb 22, 2015
Douglas McGrath on writing Beautiful - the Carole King Musical
Feb 14, 2015
Jonny Donohoe on performing Every Brilliant Thing for Paines Plough
Jan 15, 2015
Panto Dame Leon Craig in Oxford and Keith Jack and Olly Pike in Cinderella in Horsham
Dec 23, 2014
Re:Play Festival 2015 from Home Manchester
Dec 18, 2014
Panto writer and director Simon Aylin
Dec 02, 2014
David Cromer on Our Town at the Almeida
Nov 24, 2014
Tim Webb of Oily Cart Theatre Company on There Was An Old Woman
Nov 09, 2014
Michael Rudman on his life as a leading UK and US theatre director
Oct 31, 2014
Mike Tweddle on the Best of BE Festival tour 2014
Oct 15, 2014
Pete Brooks of Imitating the Dog on Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
Oct 06, 2014
Marcus Romer of Pilot Theatre on Antigone
Sep 18, 2014
Manchester Shakespeare: Maxine Peake's Hamlet at Royal Exchange and Home's Romeo and Juliet at Victoria Baths
Sep 10, 2014
Writer and performer Neil Gore on United We Stand from Townsend Productions
Sep 04, 2014
Edinburgh 2014: producer Richard Jordan, Hannah Price of Theatre Uncut and Guy Masterson
Aug 25, 2014
Edinburgh 2014: Baby Wants Candy and James Grieve of Paines Plough
Aug 17, 2014
Edinburgh 2014: Horse + Bamboo's Red Riding Hood and Blofeld and Baxter Memories of Test Match Special
Aug 09, 2014
Director Conrad Nelson on She Stoops to Conquer for Northern Broadsides
Aug 03, 2014
Actors Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann on touring in John Godber's April in Paris
Jul 05, 2014
Louise Lowe and the cast of Angel Meadow from ANU Productions and HOME Manchester
Jun 08, 2014
Daniel Boys and Lauren Samuels on Love Story at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Jun 01, 2014
Mike Shepherd and Charles Hazlewood on Kneehigh's Dead Dog in a Suitcase
May 25, 2014
National Theatre on tour: War Horse, One Man Two Guvnors, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
May 18, 2014
Annie Get Your Gun on tour: director Ian Talbot OBE and actor Norman Pace
May 11, 2014
Mark Babych on A Taste of Honey at Hull Truck Theatre
Mar 25, 2014
Manchester Theatre Awards ceremony 2014
Mar 21, 2014
Ellie Nunn on Bombshells
Feb 23, 2014
Jersey Boys: cast and production team on first ever UK tour
Feb 16, 2014
Anya Reiss on the Library Theatre revival of her adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull
Jan 30, 2014
Deborah McAndrew on An August Bank Holiday Lark with Northern Broadsides
Jan 26, 2014
New York: Bryce Pinkham on The Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols on Bedlam Theatre
Jan 09, 2014
Walter Meierjohann and Dave Moutrey on creation of new Home Manchester arts centre
Dec 23, 2013
Panto: Nottingham Playhouse's Jack and the Beanstalk and Birmingham Hippodrome's Snow White
Dec 17, 2013
Kat B and Matt Dempsey on Hackney Empire Puss in Boots and Phil Gallagher on Marlowe Canterbury Jack and the Beanstalk
Dec 11, 2013
Anna Jordan announced as winner of Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2013
Dec 04, 2013
Nick Hern on 25 years as a specialist theatre book publisher
Dec 02, 2013
Martin Barrass on playing the fool in the York Theatre Royal panto for 28 years
Nov 27, 2013
Paul Holman and Lee Waddingham of pantomime producers Paul Holman Associates
Nov 24, 2013
Tom Morton-Smith and Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder on In Doggerland from Box of Tricks
Nov 01, 2013
Stuart Rogers and Roxana Silbert on reopening of refurbished Birmingham REP
Sep 10, 2013
Edinburgh 2013: Philip Zeigler on Laurence Olivier, director Michael Bogdanov, Fringe veteran Pip Utton
Aug 26, 2013
Edfringe 2013: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Orla O'Loughlin and Howard Read
Aug 17, 2013
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Theatre of Widdershins, Puppet State Theatre, Les Enfants Terribles and Phil Nichol
Aug 02, 2013
Co-founder Simon Willis and presenters Alex Gaumond and Louise Dearman on Stage Door Internet radio station for musical theatre
Jul 26, 2013
Founder David Slack and some of this year's writers on Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival
Jul 12, 2013
MIF: Alexander Vlahos on Macbeth and Hadley Fraser on The Machine
Jul 05, 2013
Seth Numrich on Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic
Jul 02, 2013
Sarah Greene on The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward Theatre
Jun 28, 2013
Joe Sumsion on The Dukes Robin Hood, and a walk around Williamson Park
Jun 21, 2013
Writer Polly Wiseman and director Paul Jepson on Manchester Sound: The Massacre for Library Theatre
Jun 01, 2013
In Battalions: playwright Fin Kennedy on his report on the effects of funding cuts on new theatre writing
May 17, 2013
Sarah Brigham on taking over at Derby Theatre and director Mark Babych and actor Jack Lord on its first production
May 05, 2013
Artistic director Stephen Barlow on the 2013 Buxton Festival
Apr 24, 2013
Playwright Tim Fountain and director Mike Bradwell on Queen of the Nile for Hull Truck
Apr 01, 2013
Tommy Luther on the UK tour of War Horse
Mar 23, 2013
Manchester International Festival 2013 programme is announced
Mar 02, 2013
Playwright Amanda Whittington on three new play openings
Feb 28, 2013
Indhu Rubasingham after her first season at the Tricycle
Feb 21, 2013
Manchester's Library Theatre Company revives Brecht's Mother Courage at The Lowry
Feb 08, 2013
Tara Fitzgerald talks about her RSC debut
Feb 06, 2013
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog on The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon
Jan 23, 2013
Ben Roddy on playing panto dame for the first time at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury
Jan 13, 2013
Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides on the forthcoming tour of Rutherford and Son
Jan 11, 2013
Philip Fisher talks to The Village Voice's Michael Feingold in New York City
Jan 08, 2013
Susannah Flood talks about playing Sylvia in Nina Raine's Tribes in New York
Jan 06, 2013
Simon Fielding on panto at the Towngate Theatre Basildon
Jan 05, 2013
Playwright Richard Vergette on American Justice at the Arts Theatre in London
Dec 21, 2012
David Chadderton talks to the principal cast members of The Lion King tour in Manchester
Dec 05, 2012
Kevin Shaw on the long panto tradition at Oldham Coliseum
Dec 01, 2012
James Graham - The National Theatre's latest "Big Discovery"
Nov 28, 2012
Octagon founder Robin Pemberton Billing: a tribute from David Thacker and recollections from Robert Powell
Nov 27, 2012
Jodie Prenger on returning to Blackpool in One Man Two Guvnors
Nov 12, 2012
Porl Cooper of The Lowry Studio
Nov 09, 2012
Paul Hendy of Evolution Productions
Nov 05, 2012