New Perspectives presents all-star recordings of David Rudkin pieces
New Perspectives Theatre Company has teamed up with writer David Rudkin to produce a ten-part audio series called PlacePrints. Rudkin has written stories set in different locations around the British ...
21 Jun 202016min
All-star cast broadcasts to the world from Huddersfield
Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield is producing a star-studded multi-cast audio play, The Understudy, an adaptation by Henry Filloux-Bennett of a novel by David Nicholls about an actor who is fai...
1 Mai 20200s
Slung Low streams civil war from Leeds
Slung Low, a theatre company founded in 2000 and currently based in the oldest social club in Britain in Holbeck, Leeds, programmes work in its own performance spaces but also creates large-scale work...
24 Apr 20200s
HOME brings Homemakers into your homes
In common with most of the UK's theatres and other arts venues, HOME Manchester announced it would close soon after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's statement on 16 March 2020 appealing to the public to...
27 Mar 202020min
Long John Silver sets sail for Derby Theatre for Easter
For the second successive year, Derby Theatre is producing a major show featuring fully integrated British Sign Language and captioning. In 2019, the theatre presented Neil Duffield's adaptation of Ru...
14 Mar 20200s
Dickens ascends Ramps on the Moon in Leeds and on tour
Amy Leach is a theatre director and Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse, currently working on a new version of Oliver Twist. This new adaption is by Bryony Lavery, and it's being staged by Leeds Pla...
28 Feb 202024min
Crossing the Atlantic: NYT theatre critic Ben Brantley on theatre in New York and London
Ben Brantley is the co-chief theatre critic for The New York Times. He has been a staff critic since 1996, filing reviews regularly from London as well as New York. In this episode, BTG's London Edito...
21 Feb 20200s
Sansom brings Barrie's Quality Street to the home of the chocolates, then on tour
Laurie Sansom has been Artistic Director at the National Theatre of Scotland and Royal and Derngate in Northampton, but he has more recently taken over at Northern Broadsides in Halifax. His first pro...
12 Feb 202025min
