Edinburgh 2019: The Wardrobe Ensemble and Daniel Bye
As the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was about to start, we spoke to two people whose work will be featured in this year's festival. Jesse Jones is co-director of the latest devised theatre piece fro...
3 Aug 201955min
Classic Thrillers return to Nottingham Theatre Royal
The Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season has been a regular feature at Nottingham's Theatre Royal since 1989. An ensemble performs four plays over the space of four weeks, a short rehearsal period p...
28 Juli 201918min
New Octagon Artistic Director launches her first season
Lotte Wakeham, who took over as Artistic Director of Bolton's Octagon Theatre in February 2019, spoke to us after three months in the job about launching her first season in the post, her background a...
19 Maj 201937min
Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester
Jackie Kay is the current Makar, the Scottish national poet, whose 2010 memoir, Red Dust Road, is to be adapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta for a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotla...
10 Maj 201932min
Lisa Holdsworth: bringing Andrea Dunbar's story back to Bradford
Playwright Andrea Dunbar from Bradford in Yorkshire, most famous for Rita, Sue and Bob Too, died in 1990 at the age of 29. Her story was retold in Adelle Stripe's award-winning debut novel Black Teeth...
3 Maj 201926min
Braham Murray: how the Royal Exchange Theatre was born in Manchester
Braham Murray OBE arrived in Manchester in the 1960s as the youngest artistic director in the country, of the travelling Century Theatre, remaining in the city to co-found the 69 Theatre Company which...
26 Apr 201929min
MIF 2019: John McGrath, Leo Warner and Phelim McDermott
The 2019 Manchester International Festival will take place at various venues around the city in July. An edited version of the main presentation at the MIF launch on 7 March can be heard in a previous...
5 Apr 201927min
Derby Theatre takes BSL to the Jungle
Derby Theatre is preparing for a new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, in an adaptation by Neil Duffield, which will be the theatre's first ever production to full integrate BSL signing...
30 Mars 201919min
