BTG podcast reaches 200: hear from our reviewers
For our 200th episode of the British Theatre Guide podcast, we decided to turn the microphone onto some of our longest serving reviewers to find out about how they joined BTG and some of their highlig...
13 Tammi 20201h 20min
Scrooge flies into Derby for Christmas
Derby Theatre is bringing back a show it produced in 2014, Neil Duffield's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. For this episode, BTG Midlands editor Steve Orme chats to Oliver O'Shea wh...
8 Marras 20190s
Supporting Mame in Manchester
Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester is continuing its run of revivals of musicals with the Jerry Herman show Mame, starring Tracie Bennett, Tim Flavin and Harriet Thorpe. During the Manchester run, BTG ed...
2 Marras 20190s
Chekhov's Seagull adaptation rocks Bolton Library
The next production from Bolton's Octagon Theatre is a version of Chekhov's The Seagull rewritten by Beth Hyland as a gig musical about four aspiring young musicians in a rock band in 2019, performed ...
24 Loka 201931min
Rich Kids of Tehran (and elsewhere) come to Manchester
In 2017, Javaad Alipoor's The Believers Are But Brothers opened at Transform Festival in Leeds before transferring to Summerhall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Scotsman Fringe First...
17 Loka 201940min
Ongoing Mischief at the Vaudeville—and spreading
In this episode, BTG London Editor Philip Fisher speaks with Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre, the company behind The Play that Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, o...
3 Loka 201924min
A gender-switched Enemy of the People in Nottingham
Nottingham Playhouse's latest production is a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. It features Alex Kingston in the lead role of Dr Teresa Stockman. For this episode, BTG Midlands ...
28 Syys 201919min
New management team at the Rep
Birmingham REP has made three major appointments and they've all taken up their new positions at a theatre recognised as one of the most important in the country. They're Artistic Director Sean Foley,...
12 Syys 201921min
