Matthew Bourne and designer Lez Brotherston discuss the making of the classic all-male version of Tchaikovsky's famous balletMatthew Bourne, creatorI had daydreamed through many performances…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMAlastair Whatley reveals that there is just as much drama off-stage as on it – and it's not about the moneyIt was when he was stuck on a Welsh cliff top with a cast of mutinous, unpaid act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMForced to wait until the last minute when they went missingI spent £385 on tickets in March so relatives could see Barbra Streisand at the The 02 in June. The tickets didn't arrive, but Tic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM'Our librettist was travelling in Borneo. The musical began life in a canoe surrounded by crocs'Cameron Mackintosh, producerIn 1982, a young Hungarian director, Peter Farago, brought me the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59PM'At first, when they heard how childish and foul-mouthed Mozart was, the cast got the giggles''Peter Shaffer, writerI came up with the idea for this play after reading a lot about Mozart. I …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMFive directors nominate their favourite living artist in their fieldMax Stafford-Clark on Bill GaskillI had the good fortune, in my early 30s, to be sitting on the steps of the Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMFive choreographers nominate their favourite living artist in their fieldDerek Deane on Jirí KyliánJirí Kylián is a dance genius, probably the only one left. Many choreographers lea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMSix leading set designers choose their favourite peerTom Scutt on Es DevlinI assisted Es briefly in 2007. We were delicately splicing up a Braille copy of a Harry Potter novel to clad her de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMLeading playwrights choose their favourite scribes of all timeDavid Hare on Tennessee WilliamsLoved and praised as a young man, by the end of his life Tennessee could barely get his plays on…
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