Tuesday, March 25, 2025
INTERVIEW: CLAIRE APPLEBY. Claire Appleby is the architecture advisor for Theatres Trust – the national advisory public body for theatres – and also manages the Theatres at Risk registe…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 01:19PMINTERVIEW: TINGYING DONG. Tingying Dong is a sound designer, composer, and theatre maker. Dong talks about her early interest in student drama and improv and her eventual training at LAMDA, …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:36PMINTERVIEW: RUFUS NORRIS. As he prepares to leave his role as Director and joint CEO of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris reflects on a decade in one of the highest profile arts jobs in th…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:23PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
INTERVIEW: OLIVER ROYDS. Across several different companies, Oliver Royds has his hand in a huge range of theatrical endeavours. Nicoll Entertainment creates some of the UK’s leading child…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:18AMThursday, March 13, 2025
INTERVIEW: DAVID BYRNE. In 2024, David Byrne left the small New Diorama Theatre in London – which he’d transformed into a powerhouse of new work by exciting young artists and companies…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:01AMINTERVIEW: CARO NEWLING. Caro Newling is one of the most successful and influential producers in British Theatre. After meeting Sam Mendes at the RSC, the two of them set up the Donmar Wareh…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:58AMFriday, November 29, 2024
A recording of an interview by Tim Bano with Theatre Critics Arifa Akbar and Fergus Morgan discussing the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024. This is an annual TheatreVoice critical round-up to …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:50AMA recording of a panel talk discussion celebrating 20 years of the TheatreVoice archive. The panel included theatre critic Arifa Akbar, theatre critic and founding editor of TheatreVoice Dom…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:49AMMonday, April 29, 2024
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 02:24PMSunday, March 10, 2024
at 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 10:42AMThursday, March 7, 2024
INTERVIEW: 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 09:50AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
INTERVIEW: 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 07:13AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
ARCHIVE 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 11:13AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
INTERVIEW: 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 09:49AMTuesday, January 23, 2024
In 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 11:11AMThursday, January 11, 2024
INTERVIEW: 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 07:53AMWednesday, 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 05:57AM 
