Conrad Lynch on his first season at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake
Theatre by the Lake in Keswick in the Lake District has had at its helm Executive Director Patric Gilchrist and Artistic Director Ian Forrest since before the current theatre building opened in 1999. ...
22 Des 201619min
New Perspectives on rural touring of classic ghost story
BTG Midlands editor Steve Orme speaks to director Theresa Keogh and artistic director Jack McNamara of Nottingham-based New Perspectives Theatre Company about their new rural touring production of M R...
27 Nov 201631min
Joyce Branagh on directing Huddersfield theatre's first panto
In December 2016, the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield will stage its first professional pantomime, Cinderella, written by Andrew Pollard and directed by Joyce Branagh. Joyce was preparing to s...
13 Nov 201642min
Alex Chisholm on North Country from Freedom Studios
Freedom Studios is an inter-cultural theatre company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire which is about to open a new play by Tajinder Singh Hayer set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy version of Bradford c...
16 Okt 201625min
Luke Wright's What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
Performance poet Luke Wright is is currently touring with a solo verse play directed by nabokov's Joe Murphy called What I Learned From Johnny Bevan. Luke plays Nick, an arts journalist, who is transp...
4 Okt 201629min
Hugh Maynard and Sophie-Louise Dann on Sweeney Todd at Derby Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd—the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a co-production between Derby Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester directed by Daniel Buckroyd. In this episode, BTG Midla...
24 Sep 201623min
Kate Anthony on playing Priestley with Northern Broadsides
Halifax-based Northern Broadsides has paired up with York Theatre Royal for a revival of J B Priestley's When We Are Married, directed by Northern Broadsides artistic director Barrie Rutter. Playing t...
18 Sep 201619min
Edinburgh 2016: Joyce McMillan on 35 years of Theatre in Scotland
Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams is a compilation of 35 years of reviews from The Scotsman's lead theatre critic Joyce McMillan, edited by former Traverse Theatre artistic director Philip Howard...
7 Sep 201650min
