By Emma Schneider What does one come to see at a dance performance? There are components of productions that help to create a whole—costumes, lighting, music, etc.—yet, it would be di…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:24PMat the end of the day, the concept of "bastardizing your own culture to get ahead" is not a new one in this country - I'd just never seen it done within an Eastern European context
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:42AMINTERVIEW: DAME PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE. Dame Patricia Routledge is one of the UK’s most beloved and recognisable actresses, whose career spans more than 70 years and hundreds of plays, musical…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:50AMINTERVIEW: BUNNY CHRISTIE. Bunny Christie is one of the most acclaimed designers working in theatre today. She is the winner of four Olivier Awards and two Tony Awards, and has designed show…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:13AMARCHIVE EDITION: INDHU RUBASINGHAM. When Indhu Rubasingham spoke to Theatre Voice in 2013 she was just coming to the end of her first year as artistic director of what was then called the Tr…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:13AMINTERVIEW: DAVID SABEL. Fifteen years ago the National Theatre had its first live cinema broadcast, Nicholas Hytner’s production of Racine’s Phedre starring Helen Mirren and Dominic Coop…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:49AMIn April 2023, as part of the V&A’s Performance Festival, a group of leading theatre practitioners came together to discuss representation in theatre. Taking part were: Mei Mac, Cherre…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:11AMINTERVIEW: JESSICA HUNG HAN YUN. What makes good lighting design in theatre? Jessica Hung Han Yun explains all – and talks through some of her award-winning lighting work from the past few…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:53AMINTERVIEW: ISOBEL MCARTHUR. Isobel McArthur is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. In 2018 she created Pride and Prejudice *sort of, a raucous and irreverent take on the…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:24AMINTERVIEW: CHRIS BUSH. Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work ranges from huge community-led pieces to musicals and political plays. Her recent musical Standing At …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:14AMTHEATREVOICE ARCHIVE: GREG DORAN. In 2012, Greg Doran, newly appointed artistic director of the RSC, spoke to Heather Neill about his critically acclaimed production of Julius Caesar relocat…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:59AMIn April 2023 a group of leading theatre practitioners and campaigners came together for a panel talk about sustainability in theatre as part of the V&A’s annual Performance Festival. …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:52AMDISCUSSION: As theatre makers recover from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, Tim Bano is joined by critics Fergus Morgan and Arifa Akbar to discuss the highs and lows of this year’s fest…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:33AMINTERVIEW: LOLITA CHAKRABARTI. At this year’s Olivier Awards, Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi took home five wins from its nine nominations. The succ…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:02AMINTERVIEW: ELLIE KEEL. Ellie Keel is an award-winning producer and campaigner. She is the Founder Director of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, a literary prize and campaign for gender e…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:46AMINTERVIEW: TRISTAN FYNN-AIDUENU. Writer and director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu grew up in a Ghanaian household in South London, and discovered drama as a teenager by chance through a youth theat…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:43AMINTERVIEW: MARK RAVENHILL. Mark Ravenhill exploded on to the theatre scene in 1996 at the Royal Court with his uncompromising play about young people in a materialistic world, Shopping and …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:31PMARCHIVE EDITION: Belarus Free Theatre was founded by Natalia Koliada and Nikolai Khalezin in 2005. After falling foul of Belarus’s oppressive political regime, the company has been forced…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:50AMINTERVIEW: FINN AND LEWIS DEN HERTOG. The sons of actor Ann Louise Ross and production manager Nils Den Hertog, brothers Finn and Lewis Den Hertog spent their formative years in and around…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 03:56AMINTERVIEW: ABDUL SHAYEK. In August 2020, Abdul Shayek took over the reigns as Artistic Director of Tara Theatre. Following his first 18 months in the role, he talks to Anya Ryan about takin…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:34AMARCHIVE EDITION: Alecky Blythe is one of the leading practitioners in verbatim theatre, responsible for flexing and breaking the form with works like The Girlfriend Experience, London Road …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:44AMINTERVIEW: LISA SPIRLING. Sam Marlowe met Lisa Spirling, artistic director of Theatre503, in Battersea, South London, at a time of exciting redevelopment for a venue that has made its mark …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:02AMINTERVIEW: STEPHANIE SIRR. For the start of a new series, and in the midst of a time like no other for theatre, we’re looking forward. Stephanie Sirr was recently made joint president of U…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:57AMI hope the more arts workers and others share these stories, the more clear and obvious the focus on change becomes. —Emily Johnson
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:33AMINTERVIEW: GIUSEPPE CANNAS. Sam Marlowe sits down with Giuseppe Cannas, Head of Wigs, Hair and Make-up at the National Theatre, to find out about the extraordinary craft and minute detail i…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:33AMARCHIVE INTERVIEW: MUSTAPHA MATURA AND NICOLAS KENT. When Mustapha Matura died in October 2019, he had become one of the most important dramatists in Britain. Matura was born and grew up in …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:50AMINTERVIEW: ELIZABETH NEWMAN. Elizabeth arrived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2018 after eight years at Bolton’s Octagon, five as associate director and three as artistic director. Now i…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:01AMINTERVIEW: CHRIS SONNEX AND DAVID RALF. In 2016 Joshua McTaggart and Joel Fisher converted an underground car park in south London into a theatre, and very quickly the Bunker established its…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:56AMDocumenting the performances affected by COVID-19
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:42PMINTERVIEW: DEATH OF A SALESMAN CAST. Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s revelatory Death of a Salesman cast the Loman clan as an African-American family, striving against the stream o…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:05AMINTERVIEW: CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM. Having been diagnosed with osteoporosis as a toddler, Claire Cunningham spent her formative years wishing she could divert attention from her body. Having trai…
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