Staged star hears out leading theatre actors performing favourite speeches
Hear Me Out is a new theatre podcast produced and presented by Lucy Eaton, the both real and on-screen sister of Simon Evans, creator of BBC lockdown comedy Staged starring David Tennant and Michael S...
23 Mar 202147min
UK Theatres at Risk in 2021
At the beginning of each year, The Theatres Trust produces a document known as the Theatres At Risk Register, which lists the theatre buildings in the UK which are at the most risk of being lost forev...
18 Feb 202146min
An adventurous 70th anniversary season at Pitlochry after a challenging 2020
In January 2020, BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Elizabeth Newman, Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland, about her plans for the coming year. Less than two months later, th...
12 Feb 202129min
Talawa tells verbatim tales from black frontline workers
Leading black British theatre company Talawa, which will celebrate its 35th birthday in 2021, is releasing a series of short online films titled Tales from the Frontline that examine the experiences o...
11 Des 202024min
Peter Polycarpou takes online audiences back to the music of the Roaring Twenties
Peter Polycarpou, an actor with a long and distinguished history in musical theatre, was about to revive a production that he had written called Falling Stars at London's Union Theatre when the second...
21 Nov 202031min
Pursued by a Bear takes Nothing on Earth online
Pursued by a Bear, a theatre company based at Trestle Arts Base in St Albans, Hertfordshire, was preparing a tour of a new project, Nothing on Earth written by Anna Reynolds, before the coronavirus lo...
28 Sep 202043min
Theatre in a time of Pandemic
As some theatre performances are starting to open in the UK after more than five months of lockdown due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the people in charge of UK theatres have had to make some very...
4 Sep 202055min
Kneehigh strikes out with post-lockdown plans in 40th anniversary year
Cornwall's Kneehigh theatre company was due to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to postpone any celebrations. After five months of lockdown, the company has ...
28 Aug 202039min
