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ARCHIVE 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 t…
INTERVIEW: 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…
INTERVIEW: 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…
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…
West 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…
INTERVIEW: 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 trage…
INTERVIEW: 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…
THE 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…
INTERVIEW: 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, and a…
INTERVIEW: 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, ta…
INTERVIEW: 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…
SHAKESPEARE: 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 produc…
INTERVIEW: 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…
SHAKESPEARE: 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…
INTERVIEW: 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…
Theatres 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…
Theatres 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…
Theatres 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…
Theatres 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 …
Theatres 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…
Theatres 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 experien…
Theatres 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.…
INTERVIEW: 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 …
INTERVIEW: 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 …
INTERVIEW: 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 …
