INTERVIEW: SAM WALTERS The artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond takes Aleks Sierz on a journey of discovery to explore the world of Githa Sowerby's 1924 play, The Stepmot…
ASIAN VOICES: HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI The co-adapter, with director Jatinder Verma, of Moliere's The Miser, now renamed as Kanjoos (Tara Arts, currently touring), talks to Suman Bhuchar about th…
SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Director Martin Parr talks to Heather Neill about his radically abbreviated Hamlet, which is being performed at the archaeological site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre on…
INTERVIEW: YANG QIAN and MARY ANN O'DONNELL (1/2) The two founder members of Fat Bird Theatre Company talk to Mary Mazzilli about what it's like to make theatre in Shenzhen-Guangdong, the ol…
INTERVIEW: YANG QIAN and MARY ANN O'DONNELL (2/2) The two founder members of Fat Bird Theatre Company talk to Mary Mazzilli about what it's like to make theatre in Shenzhen-Guangdong, the ol…
Interview: Purni Morell. The artistic director of the Unicorn Theatre talks to Dominic Cavendish about her ambitions for the UK's first purpose-built theatre for children and young people an…
INTERVIEW: JUSTIN AUDIBERT The Leverhulme Bursary-winning director tells Matt Trueman about the intricate relationship at the heart of Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, which he d…
INTERVIEW: LIZZIE CLACHAN The designer and co-founder of Shunt talks to Matt Trueman about the National's revival of Port (2002) by Simon Stephens and her journey from experimental, off-site…
INTERVIEW: RICHARD VERGETTE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his award-winning West End success, American Justice (Arts Theatre), which is a psychological thriller, set in the Deep …
INTERVIEW: FARAH KARIM-COOPER The head of research at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London talks to Heather Neill about the venue's new indoor theatre space, the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, and …
INTERVIEW: TONY HOWARD The University of Warwick professor talks to Suman Bhuchar about Multicultural Shakespeare, a major AHRC-funded project to record the contribution of Black and Asian a…
Review of 2012: Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) assess the highs and lows…
INTERVIEW: SEBASTIAN BORN. The Associate Director (Literary) at the National Theatre tells Sophie Reynolds about the work of a Literary department, from how plays are programmed and develope…
West End Review, Dec 2012-Jan-2013: Mark Shenton and regular guests Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Matt Wolf cast a critical eye over some of the major London openings of the past month or…
Interview: Kate Bassett, the Independent on Sunday theatre critic and the author of a new, authorised and definitive biography of the director and polymath Jonathan Miller "In Two Minds" (Ob…
Interview: Kate Bassett, the Independent on Sunday theatre critic and the author of a new, authorised and definitive biography of the director and polymath Jonathan Miller "In Two Minds" (Ob…
New York Special: Susannah Flood talks to Philip Fisher about her performance in the US production of Nina Raine's Tribes at Barrow Street. In particular she discusses the difficulties of pl…
New York special: Philip Fisher talks to the Village Voice's Michael Feingold about trends in theatre on and off-Broadway. "English plays are so often over-rated by English critics, which is…
Theatre of Fashion In Conversation... with Alwyn Turner: To coincide with the current exhibition Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock, Photographs by Harry Hammond, fashion histori…
INTERVIEW: NICK PAYNE. The playwright tells Sophie Reynolds about his award-winning play 'Constellations', which was first produced in January 2012 at the Royal Court and is now running at t…
SHAKESPEARE: JULIUS CAESAR The renowned director Phyllida Lloyd talks to Heather Neill about her acclaimed all-female version of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), whose cast includes Frances…
INTERVIEW: PHILIP RIDLEY The polymath playwright bewitches Aleks Sierz with his description of his amazing new play, Feathers in the Snow (the last show to be staged at the Southwark Playhou…
Lucy Bailey tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of The Winter's Tale, which she is currently rehearsing for the RSC Winter Season, opening in Stratford in January 2013.
INTERVIEW: EV CROWE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about Hero (Royal Court), her new play which examines the themes of sexual identity and courage in daily life by looking at a gay prim…
Interview: James Graham. The prolific young playwright talks to Dominic Cavendish about his politically minded career to-date and This House, his backstage House of Commons drama and look b…