Wednesday, November 29, 2023
INTERVIEW: 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 06:24AMThursday, November 16, 2023
INTERVIEW: 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 05:14AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
THEATREVOICE 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 11:59AMWednesday, October 11, 2023
In 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 10:52AMWednesday, September 20, 2023
DISCUSSION: 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 11:33AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 07:02AMMonday, April 11, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 07:46AMFriday, April 1, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 11:43AMFriday, March 25, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 12:31PMFriday, March 18, 2022
ARCHIVE 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 10:50AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 03:56AMFriday, February 18, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 10:34AMWednesday, February 9, 2022
ARCHIVE 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 11:44AMWednesday, February 2, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 10:02AMWednesday, January 26, 2022
INTERVIEW: 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 05:57AMFriday, February 12, 2021
I 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 10:33AMThursday, April 16, 2020
INTERVIEW: 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 11:33AMThursday, April 9, 2020
ARCHIVE 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 10:50AMThursday, April 2, 2020
INTERVIEW: 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 08:01AMThursday, March 26, 2020
INTERVIEW: 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 06:56AMSaturday, March 14, 2020
Documenting the performances affected by COVID-19
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:42PMFriday, December 20, 2019
INTERVIEW: 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 06:05AMThursday, December 12, 2019
INTERVIEW: 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…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:09PMThursday, December 5, 2019
INTERVIEW: ZOE WANAMAKER. Born in New York, Zoë Wanamaker was brought up in the UK where her father, Sam Wanamaker, fled to escape McCarthyism. Known for the detail of her characterisation…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:47AMThursday, November 28, 2019
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: JONATHAN MILLER. The legendary late director Jonathan Miller spoke to Judi Herman about his fifth – and final – attempt at King Lear in 2015. Having directed Northern …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:13AMThursday, November 21, 2019
INTERVIEW: PAMELA CARTER AND STEWART LAING. Playwright Pamela Carter and director-designer Stewart Laing have worked together on a string of ground-breaking shows since Slope in 2006. In the…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:16AMThursday, November 14, 2019
INTERVIEW: SARAH FRANKCOM. As she finishes her tenure at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sarah Frankcom looks back over her decade in the artistic director’s chair and, before that, 10 year…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:32AMThursday, November 7, 2019
INTERVIEW: JULIE TAYMOR. To mark its 20th anniversary in the West End, The Lion King‘s director joins Dominic Cavendish to look back at the show’s beginnings. Surveying its astonishing s…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 03:59AMFriday, November 1, 2019
There is no preaching to the choir when it comes to considering reparations, because there is no choir. It’s a lonely act.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:42PMThursday, October 31, 2019
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: SHUNT COLLECTIVE. A decade has passed since the Shunt Vaults shut up shop to make way for the new London Bridge station. Before it opened its doors, critic Dominic Cavendi…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:40AMThursday, October 24, 2019
INTERVIEW: RACHEL O’RIORDAN. The new artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith tells Lyn Gardner about her route to and plans for one of London’s largest subsidised theatres. They disc…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:15AM 
