Greene's Brighton Rock opens in York—with Bryony Lavery, Esther Richardson and Hannah Peel
Mark Smith talks to Esther Richardson, Bryony Lavery and Hannah Peel in a busy York Theatre Royal café about Pilot Theatre's new adaptation of Brighton Rock. They discuss the appeal of Brighton Rock's...
23 Feb 201825min
Joseph Houston on the rapid rise of Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre
In November 2015, a new fringe theatre opened up in Ancoats, Manchester with the ambition of presenting full-scale commercial productions of musicals. Created by musical theatre performers Joseph Hous...
30 Jan 201831min
Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu's Homecoming in New York
Philip Fisher interviews Ngozi Anyanwu about her new play for Atlantic Theater Company, The Homecoming Queen. Set in Nigeria, it follows the fortunes of a woman returning home for a visit after 15 yea...
23 Jan 201820min
HOME Manchester gives PUSH to Manchester theatre creators
PUSH from Manchester's HOME arts centre is an annual festival each January that brings together Manchester-based performance artists and companies for just over two weeks of performances, readings, wo...
16 Jan 201827min
Village Voice critic Feingold on New York theatre 2017/18
Philip Fisher and Village Voice columnist/critic Michael Feingold discuss trends in New York Theatre, the latter concluding that "we have a lot of signs of hope in the theatre".
12 Jan 201822min
Andrew Pollard: around the UK in 6 pantos
In 2016, Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield produced its first ever professional pantomime, Cinderella, written by one of the UK's leading pantomime writers, Andrew Pollard, who has been brought ...
7 Dec 201730min
Atack Heartworms his way to £16,000 Bruntwood top prize
At the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester on 13 November 2017, the winners were announced of the sixth biennial Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. The winners of three Judges' Prizes of £8,000 each we...
1 Dec 201727min
Sally Cookson on adapting C S Lewis to in-the-round at the Quarry
BTG's Mark Smith speaks to acclaimed director Sally Cookson about her forthcoming production of family classic The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The show is set to transform the West Yorkshire Pla...
10 Nov 201714min
