493 stories from Theatre Voice
INTERVIEW: CHRIS BUSH. Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work ranges from huge community-led pieces to musicals and political plays. Her recent musical Standing At …
THEATREVOICE ARCHIVE: GREG DORAN. In 2012, Greg Doran, newly appointed artistic director of the RSC, spoke to Heather Neill about his critically acclaimed production of Julius Caesar relocat…
In April 2023 a group of leading theatre practitioners and campaigners came together for a panel talk about sustainability in theatre as part of the V&A's annual Performance Festival. Fr…
DISCUSSION: As theatre makers recover from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, Tim Bano is joined by critics Fergus Morgan and Arifa Akbar to discuss the highs and lows of this year's festiv…
INTERVIEW: LOLITA CHAKRABARTI. At this year's Olivier Awards, Lolita Chakrabarti's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi took home five wins from its nine nominations. The success …
INTERVIEW: ELLIE KEEL. Ellie Keel is an award-winning producer and campaigner. She is the Founder Director of The Women's Prize for Playwriting, a literary prize and campaign for gender e…
INTERVIEW: TRISTAN FYNN-AIDUENU. Writer and director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu grew up in a Ghanaian household in South London, and discovered drama as a teenager by chance through a youth the…
INTERVIEW: MARK RAVENHILL. Mark Ravenhill exploded on to the theatre scene in 1996 at the Royal Court with his uncompromising play about young people in a materialistic world, Shopping an…
ARCHIVE EDITION:Â Belarus Free Theatre was founded by Natalia Koliada and Nikolai Khalezin in 2005. After falling foul of Belarus's oppressive political regime, the company has been forced…
INTERVIEW: FINN AND LEWIS DEN HERTOG. The sons of actor Ann Louise Ross and production manager Nils Den Hertog, brothers Finn and Lewis Den Hertog spent their formative years in and arou…
INTERVIEW: ABDUL SHAYEK. In August 2020, Abdul Shayek took over the reigns as Artistic Director of Tara Theatre. Following his first 18 months in the role, he talks to Anya Ryan about tak…
ARCHIVE EDITION:Â Alecky Blythe is one of the leading practitioners in verbatim theatre, responsible for flexing and breaking the form with works like The Girlfriend Experience, London Roa…
INTERVIEW: LISA SPIRLING. Sam Marlowe met Lisa Spirling, artistic director of Theatre503, in Battersea, South London, at a time of exciting redevelopment for a venue that has made its mar…
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 UK …
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…
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 …
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 in …
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…
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 of …
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 tr…
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 characterisa…
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 Broa…
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…
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 years …
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 succe…
