"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
Hansel and Gretel follow the trail to Derby for Christmas
Derby Theatre's Christmas show for 2018 is Mike Kenny's adaptation of Hansel and Gretel from the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. BTG Midlands Editor Steve Orme talks about the show to Derby The...
24 Nov 201816min
Enter pantoland with Imagine Theatre at 14 UK venues
BTG panto editor Simon Sladen speaks to pantomime company Imagine Theatre's Managing Director Steve Boden and Robert Marsden, director of the Victoria Theatre, Halifax's pantomime and associate profes...
13 Nov 201833min
Director Lily Sykes on bringing Genet's Maids to Manchester Home
The first in-house production in HOME Manchester's autumn and winter season for 2018 is a new production of French writer Jean Genet's 1947 play The Maids, in an English version by Martin Crimp. The p...
3 Nov 201835min
Pauline McLynn brings Courage to Red Ladder's fiftieth birthday
Red Ladder, which bills itself as "Britain's leading radical theatre company", this year celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, tracing its roots back to the left-wing agitprop theatre of the 1960s. To ...
10 Okt 201855min
Fo at Broadsides: translating '70s Italian political farce to Brexit Britain
Mark Smith talks to Conrad Nelson and Deborah McAndrew about their brand new version of Dario Fo's classic They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay! (also known as Can't Pay? Won't Pay!). The show is a co-product...
2 Okt 201834min
RashDash on what we may find in their (and our) Future Bodies
The latest production from acclaimed theatre company RashDash, Future Bodies, has been produced in collaboration with Unlimited Theatre and HOME Manchester as a trailblazer event for the 2018 Manchest...
26 Sep 201823min
Rankin's Inspector Rebus embarks on first UK tour
Ian Rankin's Edinburgh detective Inspector Rebus, the star of many of his novels and short stories, is about to make his first ever stage appearance in a brand new story from Rankin with playwright Ro...
22 Sep 201827min
