David Sefton at the Gulbenkian: from London to LA to Adelaide to Kent
David Sefton joined Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury as Artistic Director in 2021, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, after running the Adelaide Festival in Australia. BTG Editor David Cha...
9 Juli 202233min
Sally Rogers revives '80s Stockport in London
The Still Room is a new play at Park Theatre in London set in the 'still room' of a hotel, where the waiters wait, in the North West of England in 1981. It was written by Sally Rogers, best known on T...
7 Juni 202234min
New Contact Artistic Director Keisha Thompson
On 25 March 2022, Manchester arts venue Contact announced that writer, performer and producer Keisha Thompson would take over from Matt Fenton in June to become its first female, first Mancunian and y...
4 Apr 202230min
Les Enfants' Chicken Legs comes to roost at HOME
British theatre company Les Enfants Terribles celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2022 with a new production adapted from Sophie Anderson's novel The House with Chicken Legs by company founder Oliver L...
28 Mars 202233min
Cameron's sold-out play For Black Boys transfers to Royal Court
Writer, director and actor Ryan Calais Cameron is artistic director and co-founder of theatre company Nouveau Riche, and his play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy...
21 Mars 202232min
Pilot brings Australian refugee story to UK
Pilot Theatre is based in York in the UK, but for its latest project has collaborated with an Australian playwright on an adaptation of an Australian novel. The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon has recei...
2 Feb 202226min
Vikki Stone: panto for the 2020s in Hammersmith
With Panto Season 2021 now well under way, BTG Panto Editor Simon Sladen caught up with award-winning writer, composer, actor and musician Vikki Stone. This year, Vikki has penned Aladdin for the Lyri...
4 Dec 202138min
Nathaniel Parker returns as Henry VIII in RSC's Mantel trilogy
Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were brought to the stage in 2014 by the Royal Shakespeare Company, adapted by Mike Poulton and directed by Jeremy Her...
8 Okt 202136min
