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 08:15AMINTERVIEW: KATHRYN HUNTER. Having just played Timon of Athens for the Royal Shakespeare Company – a production that will go to New York in due course – Kathryn Hunter has added another i…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:59AMPANEL DISCUSSION: THEATRE PHOTOGRAPHY. As a collection of Ivan Kyncl’s production photography goes on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, theatre photographers Manuel Harlan,…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:33PMINTERVIEW: TRACY LETTS. With August: Osage County running at the National Theatre, the American playwright Tracy Letts sat down with Philip Fisher in the summer of 2008 to discuss his Pulitz…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 01:06PMINTERVIEW: A PLAY A PIE AND A PINT. Since its launch by the late David MacLennan in 2004, Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre A Play, a Pie and a Pint has made an indelible mark on the Scottish t…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:57PMINTERVIEW: JOHN KANI. South African actor and playwright John Kani looks back over his life with Matt Trueman, focusing on the way art grounded his activism against apartheid. They discuss t…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:01AMINTERVIEW: PENELOPE WILTON. As she stars in a revival of David Hare’s 1986 play The Bay at Nice at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Downton Abbey actor discusses the highlights of her 50-…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:27PMDISCUSSION: FRANCES MAYLI MCCANN, JOHNNY MCKNIGHT, JULIE WILSON NIMMO. Actors McCann, McKnight and Wilson Nimmo discuss the vibrancy of the pantomime tradition in Scotland and explore how it…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:05AMINTERVIEW: SHARON D. CLARKE. As she storms the West End with a revelatory performance in Caroline or Change, musical stalwart Sharon D. Clarke discusses her career with critic David Benedict…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:36AMINTERVIEW: BREACH THEATRE. One of the smartest emerging companies in British theatre, Breach Theatre are interrogating the nature of veracity on stage. Against the backdrop of the post-truth…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:08AMARCHIVE INTERVIEW: KEN CAMPBELL. Back in 2004, the legendary eccentric of British theatre spoke to Dominic Cavendish about his life and work. In the course of a delirious and rambling conver…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:10AMINTERVIEW: RACHEL CHAVKIN. As Anais Mitchell’s contemporary folk opera Hadestown continues at the National Theatre ahead of its Broadway run, director Rachel Chavkin talks to Matt Trueman …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:02AMINTERVIEW: MICHAEL BOYD. Belfast-born director Michael Boyd ran the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2003 and 2012, during which time he stabilised its finances, restored its reputation, overs…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:59AMINTERVIEW: ALAN LANE. Slung Low’s artistic director tells Catherine Love about the company’s radical transformation over the last decade, from an independent experimental company to a so…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:21AMARCHIVE INTERVIEW: SONIA FRIEDMAN. In October 2003, producer Sonia Friedman sat down to discuss the state of the West End with critic Dominic Cavendish. The picture wasn’t rosy: the war on…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:19AMINTERVIEW: NEIL AUSTIN. The celebrated British lighting designer tells Luke Jones about the tricks of his trade and touches on a rich variety of shows including Albion at the Almeida Theatre…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:35AMNowadays I’m less interested in causing maybe a huge stir or making something achingly beautiful on the whole. Now it’s more like: take a sizable hunk out of the corner somewhere and mad…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:32AMINTERVIEW: JONATHAN PRYCE. Jonathan Pryce talks about appearing in Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm, in which he plays a novelist who may or may not be grieving for his wife of m…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:36PMWhat, for the theater, are our tablecloths, forks, spoons, plates and bowls that maybe aren't actually serving us anymore? Is how we are making theater and performance the best way it could…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:42AMI grew up in a yellow house in West Seneca, NY, a suburb of Buffalo. My bedroom window was on the second floor in between the windows of my sisters, though I am the youngest, with a huge map…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AM“Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.” We need money, but money is not the only way to define our value.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:37AMJeremy M. Barker and Matthew Goulish discuss Every house has a door's "The Three Matadores"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:33PMAw man. I wish I was a kick ass Trumpet player or something.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18PMEditors Note: We caught up with Alice Pencavel, who has written a few wonderful pieces for this very publication and now has a show coming up in the United Solo Festival on Tuesday, October …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:56AM"I really wish I knew how to drive." - Jess Barbagallo responds to FIVE QUESTIONS
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:30AMAlexandra Beller and Ivan Talijančić in conversation about choice-making, dramaturgy, and building Mindflock.
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SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:13PMThe NY-based director discusses her collaboration with choreographer/dancer Anne Juren, part of PS 122's 2013 COIL Festival
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