British Theatre Guide podcast

As You Like It is one of William Shakespeare's most popular comedies. Omar Elerian, who is directing his first show for the Royal Shakespeare Company, was keen to explore it from a "fresh and new pers...

14 Jul 202322min

Jenny Sealey has been artistic director of Graeae since 1997, a theatre company, which, according to its web site, "boldly places Deaf and disabled artists centre-stage in a diversity of new and exist...

8 Jul 202338min

The Greenhouse is billed as the UK's first zero-waste performance space, holding up to 50 audience members in its in-the-round venue made from found and recycled materials. BTG Editor David Chadderton...

17 Mai 202327min

Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland has announced a repertory season for 2023 featuring a 19-strong ensemble of actors performing in 8 different productions, starting with the musical Gypsy. While ...

4 Mai 202330min

Cornwall's popular and highly acclaimed theatre company Kneehigh shut down in 2021, the year after its 40th anniversary. When the company closed, the Kneehigh Cookbook, an online educational resource,...

26 Apr 202354min

David Wood OBE, described by the late great Times theatre critic Irving Wardle as "the national children's dramatist", has written more than 70 plays, including adaptations of books by Judith Kerr, Mi...

15 Apr 20231h 22min

Factory International announced the 2023 edition of the biannual Manchester International Festival at an event at New Century Hall in Manchester on 14 March. After the announcement, BTG Editor David C...

15 Mar 202332min

David Greig is a leading Scottish playwright and Artistic Director of Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. In 2016, he adapted The Suppliant Women, the only fully extant play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, ...

16 Feb 202341min