English Touring Opera's first Sheffield tour opening
English Touring Opera has been taking live opera productions and educational and community projects around the UK since 1979. The company has been based in London up to last year, when it began a move...
7 Mar 41min
Ockham's Razor directors return with aerial two-hander
Ockham's Razor was founded in 2004 by its current Artistic Directors, Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney, who have directed and toured many large-scale circus-based productions over the last two decades...
16 Jan 1h 2min
Allan Stewart: fifty years in pantomime
BTG's Panto Editor Simon Sladen spoke to Allan Stewart, who marks an extraordinary milestone of 50 years in pantomime. Allan reflected on his early start as a teenage club performer, his unexpected fi...
23 Des 202543min
Big Tiny pantos across the North West
The Big Tiny Productions Ltd, founded in 2019 by Will Cousins and Ben Richards, is producing four shows in the North West for Christmas 2025, three of which are pantos written by Ben and designed by W...
16 Des 202541min
Study into effects of COVID on British theatre
The British Theatre Consortium, headed by playwrights Dan Rebellato and David Edgar, has followed up its reports on the state of the British theatre repertoire in 2013 and 2014 with a study into how t...
4 Des 202543min
Playwright David Ireland: from 'The Troubles' to romantic comedy
David Ireland is an Irish playwright with a reputation for writing hard-hitting drama such as The Fifth Step, Ulster American and Cypress Avenue, but director Max Elton is reviving a very different pl...
29 Nov 202528min
Inaugural production of new company honouring Buzz Goodbody
Buzz Goodbody was the first female director at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford where she was instrumental in setting up the venue The Other Place. She died just 50 years ago at the age of 2...
22 Nov 202528min
Watford gets giant Stephen Fry in panto
Steve Marmion is currently in his second season as Chief Executive and Director of Programming for Watford Palace Theatre, but he also ran Soho Theatre in London for eight years and founded PantoCo Lt...
12 Nov 202531min
