Brining brings Proclaimers' Leith Sunshine to Leeds
James Brining has been Artistic Director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse since 2012. Prior to that, he spent sixteen years in Scotland as Artistic Director of TAG Theatre and then Dundee Rep. He talks...
25 Mar 201838min
Tribute to John Blackmore, featuring Mark Babych
On 20 February 2018, regional theatre director, artistic director and chief executive John Blackmore died at the age of 77. He was chief executive at Bolton's Octagon Theatre for 12 years, but he also...
18 Mar 201853min
Community drama class comes HOME in Circle Mirror Transformation
Pullitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation is being revived by director Bijan Sheibani for HOME Manchester in March 2018. Set in a creative drama class in a communit...
6 Mar 201820min
McKenzie and Mousley are Cartwright's Two in Derby
Midlands editor Steve Orme speaks to actors Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley about performing Jim Cartwright's popular two-hander Two at Derby Theatre. The play, which premièred at the Octagon Theatre in ...
1 Mar 201821min
Greene's Brighton Rock opens in York—with Bryony Lavery, Esther Richardson and Hannah Peel
Mark Smith talks to Esther Richardson, Bryony Lavery and Hannah Peel in a busy York Theatre Royal café about Pilot Theatre's new adaptation of Brighton Rock. They discuss the appeal of Brighton Rock's...
23 Feb 201825min
Joseph Houston on the rapid rise of Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre
In November 2015, a new fringe theatre opened up in Ancoats, Manchester with the ambition of presenting full-scale commercial productions of musicals. Created by musical theatre performers Joseph Hous...
30 Jan 201831min
Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu's Homecoming in New York
Philip Fisher interviews Ngozi Anyanwu about her new play for Atlantic Theater Company, The Homecoming Queen. Set in Nigeria, it follows the fortunes of a woman returning home for a visit after 15 yea...
23 Jan 201820min
HOME Manchester gives PUSH to Manchester theatre creators
PUSH from Manchester's HOME arts centre is an annual festival each January that brings together Manchester-based performance artists and companies for just over two weeks of performances, readings, wo...
16 Jan 201827min
