Shakespeare's First Acts series: Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare's First Acts: Love's Labour's Lost. Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides, talks about some of the challenges and the pleasures of the first act of Love's Labou…
Shakespeare's First Acts: Love's Labour's Lost. Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides, talks about some of the challenges and the pleasures of the first act of Love's Labou…
Interview: Mark Espiner and Dan Jones, two of the three co-directors of the pioneering company Sound & Fury talk about their follow-up to their hit show "Kursk" - a new piece about astr…
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON The playwright and screen writer talks to Aleks Sierz about Bloody Poetry, his 1984 play about Shelley, Byron and the loves of these Romantic poets, which is curren…
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with No Fit State Circus hosted by Dick McCaw about their show, Mundo Paralelo, performed as part of the 2012 London International Mime Festival, at the…
ASIAN VOICES: ISHY DIN and IQBAL KHAN The playwright and director of Snookered (Oldham Coliseum Theatre/Bush Theatre) talk about the genesis and staging of this new play, produced by Tamasha…
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with Theatre Ad Infinitum hosted by Mike Tweddle with performers George Mann, Deborah Pugh, Kim Heron and Nir Paldi about their show, Translunar Paradis…
MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with Blind Summit performers Dorothy Max Prior and Mark Down, Nick Barnes, Sean Garratt, Sarah Calver and Ivan Thorley about their show, The Table, perf…
INTERVIEW: ABI MORGAN The playwright and writer of film The Iron Lady talks to Aleks Sierz about Lovesong, her latest collaboration with Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett of Frantic Assembly, …
INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest Royal Court play, Haunted Child, which is about a man who suddenly walks out on his wife and child and then return…
INTERVIEW: TASH FAIRBANKS and TOBY WHARTON The co-authors of Fog, which is currently playing at the Finborough Theatre, tell Aleks Sierz about their unique cross-generational collaboration, …
NEW YORK SPECIAL Michael Feingold, chief theatre critic of the Village Voice, chats to Philip Fisher about theatrical life during the past few months, covering both the big houses of Broadwa…
Review of the Year: 2011 (part 1). Mark Shenton invites guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to consider the hi…
Theatrevoice review of the year (part 2): Mark Shenton and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene for thei…
SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET The director Ian Rickson talks to Heather Neill about his current production of Hamlet (Young Vic), which stars Michael Sheen and has a controversial modern-day setting i…
Interview: Laurence Boswell, director, talks to Dominic Cavendish about his season of premiered translations of neglected European classics at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath: The Phoenix of Madri…
DEBATE: HAS THEATRE GONE TOO FAR? Panel discussion chaired by Paul Warwick of China Plate Theatre with participants Steve Marmion (Artistic Director Soho Theatre), Simon Stokes (Artistic Dir…
INTERVIEW: LUCINDA COXON The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her disturbing new play, Herding Cats, which has transferred to the Hampstead Theatre from the Ustinov in Bath, where it op…
INTERVIEW: DAVID MICKLEM The Co-Artistic Director of BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), speaks to Diana Damian about this year's Christmas Cook-Up, the venue's plans for 2012 and some of the arts …
DEBATE: THE FALL OF NEW LABOUR Panel discussion chaired by Michael Crick with Diane Abbott MP, Don Foster MP, Artistic Director Steve Marmion and John Hodgkinson, about Michael Chaplin's ada…
West End Review (1): Revivals Special. Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tr…
West End Review (2): New Plays Special. Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald T…
INTERVIEW: SEAN HOLMES The artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith discusses in detail, with Aleks Sierz, his revival of Edward Bond's landmark 1965 play, Saved, which features the stonin…
INTERVIEW: NICOLAS KENT and GILLIAN SLOVO. The director and writer talk to Dominic Cavendish about The Riots, an attempt to create a rapid-reaction verbatim drama in response to the riots th…
INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS WRIGHT The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest work, The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre), which is based on the book of the same name by Caroline Bla…
INTERVIEW: STEWART PRINGLE The co-director of the London Horror Festival (which runs at the Courtyard Theatre until 27 November) tells Diana Damian about the seasonal theme of ghosts stories…