MIF launch 2019
Highlights of the launch event for the Manchester International Festival 2019, held in Manchester on 7 March 2019. Introduced by MIF artistic director John McGrath, this episode also features announce...
9 Mars 201935min
From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant
From Shore to Shore is a play written by British playwright Mary Cooper in collaboration with M W Sun based on real migration stories from Chinese communities throughout the UK that will tour national...
26 Feb 201941min
Box of Tricks sets spark to new play from Manchester actor and writer David Judge
The latest production from Manchester-based new writing theatre company Box of Tricks is SparkPlug, written and performed by David Judge based on his own experiences being brought up as a mixed race c...
14 Feb 201936min
Much Ado About Benedick at Northern Broadsides
Conrad Nelson's production of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing for Northern Broadsides Theatre Company had a cast change on the first day of rehearsals when Reece Dinsdale had to drop out o...
1 Feb 201923min
New consortium for theatre for young people stages Blackman's Noughts and Crosses
A new consortium has been formed to produce new theatre for young audiences, including Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Mercury Theatre Colchester and York Theatre Royal. The f...
27 Jan 201925min
Three years of actors' honesty with Jonathan Harden
The Honest Actors' Podcast was founded by Belfast-born actor Jonathan Harden in 2015 and is currently launching its third and final series, featuring long, frank discussions with experienced actors ab...
23 Dec 201851min
Christmas Crimes in Lichfield
Lichfield Garrick is presenting an alternative show as well as its panto this Christmas as New Old Friends will be staging the latest in its "Crimes of..." series: Crimes of the Christmas Pudding. BTG...
8 Dec 201815min
"Follow your dream"—to the Marlowe's Cinderella
2018 marks the second time Evolution Productions has produced Cinderella at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury after the venue re-opened in 2011. Simon Sladen speaks to the theatre's resident Dame Ben Ro...
2 Dec 201814min
