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Producers

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The Society of London Theatre’s Julian Bird on Oliviers and Olympics

26 February 2012

in Musicals, Producers, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: JULIAN BIRD The new Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) tells Philip Fisher about his job, the current state of London West End theatre today, with special insights into the Oliviers and the Olympics.

Executive director John Blackmore on 12 years at the Bolton Octagon

27 October 2011

in Producers, Regional Theatre, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: JOHN BLACKMORE The executive director of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton looks back on his forty-plus year career, during which he saved the Octagon and the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres from bankruptcy and headed theatre companies such as the Library Theatre Company in Manchester, Northern Stage in Newcastle (which he created), The Dukes in Lancaster, Warwick Arts Centre and the English Shakespeare Company.

Edinburgh Fringe 2011: Producer Richard Jordan

17 August 2011

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Participatory & Interactive, Producers

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2011 Producer Richard Jordan discusses the joys and woes of two popular genres on the Edinburgh Fringe, on-on-one theatre and solo shows with Philip Fisher and offers some tips on getting them right. Jordan has produced and co-produced more than 55 plays for the stage – he is also one of the UK’s youngest producers, born in 1974.

These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs: producer Michael Codron (1/2)

24 July 2011

in Musicals, Producers, Theatre People

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: MICHAEL CODRON (1/2) The veteran West End producer talks to Mark Shenton about his career with the leading playwrights of his age, Michael Frayn and Simon Gray included, and shares some melancholy favourites. Recorded at Jermyn Street Theatre, London as part of a special week-long series, curated by Shenton, in aid of the Theatrical Guild. The featured singer is West End leading lady Caroline Sheen.

These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs: producer Michael Codron (2/2)

24 July 2011

in Musicals, Producers, Theatre People

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: MICHAEL CODRON (2/2) The veteran West End producer talks to Mark Shenton about his career with the leading playwrights of his age, Michael Frayn and Simon Gray included, and shares some melancholy favourites. Recorded at Jermyn Street Theatre, London as part of a special week-long series, curated by Shenton, in aid of the Theatrical Guild. The featured singer is West End leading lady Caroline Sheen.

These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs: producer Bill Kenwright (1/3)

14 July 2011

in Musicals, Producers

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: BILL KENWRIGHT (1/3) The leading West End producer talks to Mark Shenton about his career, spills glorious anecdotes, relives glory days as an actor, hymns the wonders of Liverpool – and divulges some of his favourite songs. Recorded at Jermyn Street Theatre, London as part of a special week-long series, curated by Shenton, in aid of the Theatrical Guild. The featured singer is West End leading lady Caroline Sheen.

These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs: producer Bill Kenwright (2/3)

14 July 2011

in Musicals, Producers

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THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: BILL KENWRIGHT (2/3) The leading West End producer talks to Mark Shenton about his career, spills glorious anecdotes, relives glory days as an actor, hymns the wonders of Liverpool – and divulges some of his favourite songs. Recorded at Jermyn Street Theatre, London as part of a special week-long series, curated by Shenton, in aid of the Theatrical Guild. The featured singer is West End leading lady Caroline Sheen.

These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs: producer Bill Kenwright (3/3)

14 July 2011

in Musicals, Producers

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: BILL KENWRIGHT (3/3) The leading West End producer talks to Mark Shenton about his career, spills glorious anecdotes, relives glory days as an actor, hymns the wonders of Liverpool – and divulges some of his favourite songs. Recorded at Jermyn Street Theatre, London as part of a special week-long series, curated by Shenton, in aid of the Theatrical Guild. The featured singer is West End leading lady Caroline Sheen.

Fuel producers on the art of podcast listening

21 January 2011

in Live Art, Physical and Visual theatre, Producers

INTERVIEW: LOUISE BLACKWELL AND KATE McGRATH The co-founders of producing company Fuel, who work with the likes of Sound&Fury, Uninvited Guests, Fevered Sleep and Clod Ensemble, talk about their new free monthly podcast series Everyday Moments. Sample clips from Kazuko Hohki, Lemn Sissay and Peggy Shaw included. Dominic Cavendish holds the mic upstairs at the BAC, London.

Rare chat with theatre owner and producer Nica Burns

15 November 2010

in Producers, Theatre buildings, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: NICA BURNS Philip Fisher persuades Nica Burns, current President of the Society of London Theatre, to reflect on a career that started on the Fringe, and eventually led to ownership of Nimax – a production company which she runs along with Max Weitzenhoffer – and five West End theatres.

Edinburgh 2010: the economics of producing a show

14 August 2010

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Producers

EDINBURGH 2010 Producer Richard Jordan talks to Philip Fisher about the economics of producing shows for the Edinburgh Festival during the recession, and chats about some of the biggest shows currently in town.

Watch This Space: outdoor theatre at the National

3 August 2010

in Outdoors, Producers, Site Specific, Youth Theatre

INTERVIEW: ANGUS MacKECHNIE The producer of the National Theatre’s Watch This Space events tells Carole Woddis about this 14-week free festival, the longest open-air theatre programme in the land, now in its 12th and most ambitious year. Recorded at the National.

Digital Theatre goes online

30 October 2009

in Directors, Producers

FOCUS ON DIGITAL THEATRE Producer Tom Shaw and director Robert Delamere tell Philip Fisher about Digital Theatre, a new venture to film and webcast live performance, in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court, Young Vic, Almeida and English Touring Theatre, designed to bring theatre into the living room in High Definition.

Director Rupert Goold on Headlong

9 October 2009

in Directors, New Writing, Producers, Site Specific

INTERVIEW: RUPERT GOOLD (2/2) The director and chief of Headlong theatre company talks to Aleks Sierz about his programme of shows for next year, which include new plays from Anthony Neilson and Mike Bartlett, plus new versions of Brecht and Swift. Recorded at Headlong, London.

James Roose-Evans career overview (1/2)

5 October 2009

in Books, Directors, Producers

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INTERVIEW: JAMES ROOSE-EVANS (1/2) The director, writer and actor talks to Aleks Sierz about his memoirs, Opening Doors and Windows (History Press) and Finding Silence (a volume of meditations), with anecdotes about the founding of Hampstead Theatre, and the avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s. Recorded at Chalk Farm Library, London.

Daniel Evans and Sheffield Theatres

28 September 2009

in Directors, Producers, Regional Theatre

REGIONAL THEATRE: SHEFFIELD Actor manager Daniel Evans, new artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, talks to Heather Neill about his upcoming first season at the venue, which opens with his own production of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, plus plays about Muslims, football and Alice, as well as revivals.

An introduction to the Revolutions season at the RSC

20 September 2009

in New Writing, Playwrights, Producers

INTERVIEW: JEANIE O’HARE The Royal Shakespeare Company Dramaturg gives a quick curtain-raiser overview of the new Revolutions season at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Dominic Cavendish quizzes, with a competing chorus of swans, ducks and geese in attendance by the waterside too.

Decibel: the biennial performing arts showcase explained

16 September 2009

in Black Voices, Producers

BLACK VOICES: DECIBEL SPECIAL Steven Luckie visits Manchester and talks to Nike Jonah, the Project Manager of Decibel, the biennial cross-arts showcase that displays the ‘best work from artists with diverse practice, including those who may have had limited opportunities to participate in the arts’.

Producer Richard Jordan on his career

17 August 2009

in Producers, Regional Theatre

INTERVIEW: RICHARD JORDAN (2/2) The producer tells Philip Fisher how he fulfilled a childhood ambition to become a theatre impresario and talks through a career in the regions, the West End, at the National, and nowadays touring his own productions around the globe.

Producer Richard Jordan on Edinburgh 2009

17 August 2009

in Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, Producers

INTERVIEW: RICHARD JORDAN (1/2) The producer talks to Philip Fisher about Edinburgh 2009, including his two Fringe First Winners, one of which, Internal (Traverse), is the most talked about show in town, and his other favourites, including musicals.

New York Festival of Music Theatre

8 May 2009

in American Drama, Musicals, Producers

INTERVIEW: ISAAC ROBERT HURWITZ The Executive Director and Producer of the New York Festival of Musical Theatre talks to Peter Huntley about the event, which since 2004 has resulted in some 100 new stagings, such as Next to Normal, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Shout! and Austentatious, and discovered much new talent. Recorded in New York.

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