Wednesday, 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 07:15AMThursday, October 17, 2019
INTERVIEW: ALEXANDER ZELDIN. Following the final edition of his trilogy about the unseen hardships of austerity Britain, the rising director Alexander Zeldin tells Dominic Cavendish about th…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:10AMThursday, October 10, 2019
INTERVIEW: NED GLASIER. As Islington’s pioneering youth theatre Company Three marks a decade of socially-engaged practice, its artistic director Ned Glasier tells Matt Trueman about the or…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:24AMThursday, October 3, 2019
INTERVIEW: LUCY ELLINSON. As she steps onto the Manchester Royal Exchange stage to play Macbeth, actor Lucy Ellinson tells Catherine Love about putting her politics and her principles into h…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:19AMFriday, August 30, 2019
Each time we stumbled across a new challenge, we took note of how we could prepare for it in the future. Such is the reality of doing something new -- you don’t know until you know, and on…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:48PMThursday, August 22, 2019
“I’ll just put my bias on the table.” What is the impact of the work? “Let’s turn over the rock and see what’s under there.” Terry says.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:03PMFriday, July 12, 2019
INTERVIEW: LUCY KIRKWOOD. Following Chimerica’s outing as a Channel 4 miniseries, British playwright Lucy Kirkwood talks to Dominic Cavendish about adapting her hit stage play for the smal…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:36AMFriday, June 28, 2019
I was hired to perform as a sort of Vanna White car model at an auto show in New Hampshire. I had to memorize 2 pages of facts about a new model of Subaru, which I repeated over and over int…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:12PMThursday, June 20, 2019
INTERVIEW: ELEANOR LLOYD AND KATE McGRATH. Critic Matt Trueman talks to two independent producers – commercial producer Eleanor Lloyd and co-founder of FUEL Kate McGrath – about the dive…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:50AMFriday, June 14, 2019
INTERVIEW: ISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE. Acclaimed stage composer Isobel Waller-Bridge gives Matt Trueman a crash course in an under-appreciated art-form. Distinguishing between the disciplines of s…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:00AMThursday, June 6, 2019
INTERVIEW: ANU PRODUCTIONS. As they celebrate the company’s tenth anniversary this year, Louise Lowe and Owen Boss of ANU Productions sit down with writer and critic Saoirse Anton for a co…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:01AMThursday, May 30, 2019
INTERVIEW: LYNN NOTTAGE. Ahead of Sweat‘s transfer to the West End, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage talks to New York-based critic Helen Shaw about the play and…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:18AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
The other morning, Lila woke up and her first question was "Mama, how do you start to write a musical?" which, I admit, made me feel proud.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:54PMThursday, May 23, 2019
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: IAN RICKSON. To mark the approaching tenth anniversary of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, another chance to listen to its director Ian Rickson tell critic Aleks Sierz about…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:57AMThursday, May 16, 2019
INTERVIEW: RIDICULUSMUS. David Woods and John Haynes of the performance duo Ridiculusmus look back over their body of work with the critic Lyn Gardner. They discuss their recent trilogy exam…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:15AM 
