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Throughout history, new technologies have seemed to threaten theatre — until we got over it, and embraced them. So while at first the digital world — from mobile phones to Twitter — was an irritant to many theatre-makers, new technology is now being increasingly used to record performances, and to make them available to a […]

New plays, says publisher Nick Hern in his interview with me (in listenNOW), are the lifeblood of theatre. Agreed. But how do you find them? And what do publishers get out of printing them?
In this engrossing and entertaining discussion, Nick Hern (who this year celebrates the 20th birthday of his company) outlines how most playwrights […]

A couple of weeks ago, The City opened at the Royal Court. It’s the latest play by top Brit writer Martin Crimp in a production by Katie Mitchell, without doubt one of the country’s most distinctive directors. You’d think that critics and audiences would be falling over themselves in admiration. Not a bit of it: […]

Just been musing over my interview with Soho Theatre’s Paul Sirett, and I’m still not satisfied that I really understand why British audiences really don’t seem to GET foreign theatre. It’s odd isn’t it? I mean, today’s Brits are a minor miracle of globalised taste. Typically, we are amazingly eclectic: we eat curry and sushi, […]