British Theatre Guide podcast

Nottingham Playhouse is presenting a new play, The Clothes They Stood Up In, which is described as a "bittersweet exploration of marriage, dreams and lives unlived". Adrian Scarborough appears in the ...

13 Sep 202222min

Oldham Coliseum Theatre is opening its 2022 autumn season with a revival of Jim Cartwright's acclaimed portrait of life in a Lancashire town in Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s, Road, which premièred a...

7 Sep 202222min

Peter Straker's first big break was in the West End première of the musical Hair in 1968, following which he has had a long and impressive career in both musical and non-musical theatre and as a recor...

12 Aug 202223min

Mischief Theatre, which rose to fame ten years ago with its smash hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, is returning to Edinburgh in 2022 with three shows: Charlie Russell Aims to Please, Mischief Movi...

4 Aug 202233min

John Lloyd, the TV and radio producer behind many classic comedy programmes from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image to Have I Got News For You, The New...

28 Jul 202228min

London's Greenwich + Docklands International Festival began as a free, outdoor festival in 1996, managed to continue throughout the COVID pandemic and has now announced its 27th programme of events wh...

23 Jul 202227min

One of the biggest hits of the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was a one-man show about comedian Eric Morecambe written by Tim Whitnall and performed by Bob Golding. When comedy impressionist Jon Culsh...

14 Jul 202237min

David Sefton joined Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury as Artistic Director in 2021, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, after running the Adelaide Festival in Australia. BTG Editor David Cha...

9 Jul 202233min