Manchester International Festival 2013 programme is announced
Announcements of the theatre events in the 2013 programme for the Manchester International Festival from Festival director Alex Poots and some of the artists involved. Featured on the podcast are acto...
2 Mar 201321min
Playwright Amanda Whittington on three new play openings
Playwright Amanda Whittington talks about her career and her writing process and about three new plays she has opening in the next twelve months: The Thrill of Love opens at the New Vic, Newcastle-un...
28 Feb 201317min
Indhu Rubasingham after her first season at the Tricycle
Indhu Rubasingham talks about her first season and upcoming plans as artistic director of London's Tricycle Theatre, which she took over in May 2012 from Nicolas Kent, who had run the Kilburn venue fo...
21 Feb 201317min
Manchester's Library Theatre Company revives Brecht's Mother Courage at The Lowry
Manchester's Library Theatre Company, currently without a permanent performance home since moving out of Central Library and not due to move into its joint new home with Cornerhouse cinema until 2014,...
8 Feb 201324min
Tara Fitzgerald talks about her RSC debut
Midlands editor Steve Orme talks to actress Tara Fitzgerald, known to TV viewers as Dr Eve Lockhart in Waking the Dead and The Body Farm and for the US TV series Game of Thrones, about her Royal Shake...
6 Feb 201317min
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog on The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog talks about the company's methods and interests, and gives some details about the forthcoming tours of its two new productions: The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the ...
23 Jan 201319min
Ben Roddy on playing panto dame for the first time at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury
Ben Roddy is an experienced pantomime performer and, in his 15th season, he takes on the role of Dame for the first time. Simon Sladen speaks to him about his theatrical career and playing Nurse Nelli...
13 Jan 201315min
Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides on the forthcoming tour of Rutherford and Son
David Chadderton talks to Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides Theatre Company in Halifax, about the forthcoming national tour of Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby directed by Jon...
11 Jan 201312min
