British Theatre Guide podcast

Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Perthshire, Scotland announced its summer rep season for 2020 in December. In 2018, Elizabeth Newman joined the theatre as Artistic Director from the Octagon Theatre in B...

5 Feb 202027min

Pilot Theatre is to tour the UK with Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle in an adaptation by Emteaz Hussain co-directed by Pilot's Artistic Director, Esther Richardson, and Corey Campbell, Artistic Direc...

29 Jan 202027min

imitating the dog has been making theatre work fusing live performance with digital technology and projection for 21 years. Their past productions have included original devised work as well as adapta...

22 Jan 202033min

In 2019, the inaugural Visionary Honours, founded by Thriller Live creator Adrian Grant, celebrated work that inspired social change in or debate about equality, diversity, inclusion, mental health, a...

16 Jan 20200s

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 Jan 20201h 20min

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 Nov 20190s

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 Nov 20190s

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 Okt 201931min