West End Review: revivals special. Mark Shenton hosts a final session in the current format, in which regular panellists Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Matt Wolf are joined for one contrib…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:18AMWest End Review: New work special. Mark Shenton hosts a final session in the current format, in which regular panellists Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Matt Wolf are joined for one contrib…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:18AMINTERVIEW: HAYLEY SQUIRES Hayley Squires talks to Matt Trueman about Glitterland, her play for the Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre company inspired by John Webster’s seminal revenge t…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:13PMINTERVIEW: PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE Actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge tells Matt Trueman about her debut play, Fleabag, a monologue about a sex-obsessed twentysomething, who runs a hamster-themed caf…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:04PMTHE CONFESSIONS OF GORDON BROWN, roundtable. Post-show talk in which Kevin Toolis, the author and director of this acclaimed one-man show about former Labour PM Gordon Brown, hears the views…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 01:52PMINTERVIEW: KARL DAVIES and JODIE McNEE The two actors talk to Judi Herman about their roles in Harold Brighouse’s classic play, Hobson’s Choice, at The Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park,…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:06AMINTERVIEW: NICK BAGNALL The director of Simon Armitage’s new play, the Last Days of Troy, performed at Manchester Royal Exchange and Shakespeare’s Globe, with Lily Allen as Helen of Troy…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:03AMINTERVIEW: KATHRYN HUNTER and MARCELLO MAGNI The performers, who are married, talk to Judi Herman about appearing together in The Valley of Astonishment (currently at the Young Vic), written…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:33AMSHAKESPEARE: LEAR Ursula Mohan tells Sophie Reynolds about the challenges and rewards of playing Shakespeare’s troubled sovereign. Mohan is currently playing Lear in the Union Theatre prod…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:15AMINTERVIEW: URSULA MOHAN. Ursula Mohan tells Sophie Reynolds about the challenges and rewards of playing Shakespeare's troubled sovereign. Mohan is currently playing Lear in the Union Theatre…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:34AMSHAKESPEARE: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Director Jonathan Munby talks to Heather Neill about his very well-received version of this Roman play, currently at Shakespeare's Globe, and starring Eve B…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:18AMINTERVIEW: CASSIE BRADLEY and PENNY NEWELL The actor (in Sam Mendes's King Lear) and the doctoral researcher at King's College London, who are co-convenors of the Research with Reach initiat…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:24AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres, session 2. Funding Community Theatre, Sir Peter Bazalgette. The Chair of Arts Council England outlines current funding strategies aimed a…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:35AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres, session 2. Funding community theatre. The session looked at a range of new and existing models for the capital and revenue funding of comm…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:35AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres, session 4. The future. The final session looked at a range of exciting and ambitious projects that aim to improve markedly the community…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:35AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres, session 3. Community rights. The Localism Act of 2011 created opportunities for communities to plan and develop the future of their local …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:30AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres. Keynote speech by Stephen Williams MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Recorded at City Varie…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:58AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres, session 1: What is a Community Theatre? The conference opened with the question – What is a Community Theatre? Offering their own experi…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:11AMTheatres Trust Conference 2014: Community Theatres, opening address by Peter Stark, OBE. At the annual conference organised by the Theatres Trust, the theme this year was Community Theatres.…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:47AMINTERVIEW: MOIRA BUFFINI (1/2) The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her play Handbagged, which examines the relationship between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Queen in the …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:43AMINTERVIEW: MOIRA BUFFINI (2/2) The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her play Handbagged, which examines the relationship between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Queen in the …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:31AMINTERVIEW: IAN HISLOP and NICK NEWMAN Long-term writing partners Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk to Judi Herman about transferring A Bunch of Amateurs, the story of a faded Hollywood action …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:32AMINTERVIEW: JONATHAN CROALL The theatre writer, journalist and editor talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest book, In Search of Gielgud (Herbert Adler), which tells the story of how he came to…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:59AMAsian Voices. Suman Bhuchar talks to Leesa Gazi, actor, translator and a founder of Komola Collective, a new theatre company whose debut production, Birangona: Women of War tells the stories…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:57PMASIAN VOICES: SHAKESPEARE. Suman Bhuchar conducts an interview about All's Well That Ends Well, as performed in Gujarati at Shakespeare's Globe, with its director Sunil Shanbag (director), a…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:27PMINTERVIEW: STELLA FEEHILY and MAX STAFFORD-CLARK. The playwright and Out of Joint's artistic director talk about This May Hurt a Bit, which tracks the embattled NHS since its foundation in 1…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:11AMSHAKESPEARE: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Director Michael Fentiman, actors Katy Stephens (Petruchio) and Forbes Masson (Katherina) talk to Judi Herman about the RSC's First Encounters version of…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:13AMInterview: Shane Shambhu. The artistic director of Altered Skin, whose physical theatre show, Power Games, is on a UK tour, talks to Suman Bhuchar about the nature of the company's work. Rec…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:58AMINTERVIEW: ADELE THOMAS The director chats to Heather Neill about her production of Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe), a Re…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:12AMINTERVIEW: DAVID MERCATALI The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his current production of Philip Ridley’s superb new play, Dark Vanilla Jungle, which is at the Soho Theatre and is a mon…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:23AMSHAKESPEARE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE The director talks to Heather Neill about Shakespeare’s play, which is the Deutsche Bank Playing Shakespeare production at Shakespeare’s Globe in Lond…
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