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Award-winning actor Richard McCabe talks about his role in The Audience

6 May 2013

in Actors and Performers, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: RICHARD McCABE The Olivier winning actor talks to Heather Neill about playing Harold Wilson in The Audience, Peter Morgan’s superb new play about the Queen’s audiences with her Prime Ministers (Gielgud Theatre), and which stars Helen Mirren as Her Majesty.

Playwright Simon Stephens on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

19 March 2013

in Disability Arts, New Writing, Playwrights, Theatre buildings

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INTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his superb adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Apollo Theatre), which has just transferred to the West End after opening at the National Theatre to enthusiastic reviews last year.

Playwright Richard Vergette explores American Justice

29 January 2013

in Playwrights, Political theatre, Regional Theatre

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INTERVIEW: RICHARD VERGETTE The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his award-winning West End success, American Justice (Arts Theatre), which is a psychological thriller, set in the Deep South, about an American Democrat politician and a prisoner who is a murderer.

West End Review: The Effect (NT), Merrily We Roll Along (Menier) and more

15 January 2013

in Musicals, New Writing, Reviews and Roundtables

West End Review, Dec 2012-Jan 2013: Mark Shenton and regular guests Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Matt Wolf cast a critical eye over some of the major London openings, beginning with Lucy Prebble’s The Effect (National), winner of this year’s Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as Best Musical winner Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory), plus Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), Pinero’s The Magistrate, starring John Lithgow (National) and Simon Russell Beale in Peter Nichols’ Privates on Parade (Noel Coward Theatre), The Bodyguard (Adelphi) and Viva Forever! (Piccadilly).

Playwright Nick Payne discusses Constellations: quantum multiverse theory, love and honey

28 December 2012

in New Writing, Playwrights, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: NICK PAYNE The playwright tells Sophie Reynolds about his award-winning play Constellations, which was first produced in January 2012 at the Royal Court and is now running in the West End, starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.

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.

West End Review: more revivals and new plays

18 February 2012

in Playwrights, Reviews and Roundtables

WEST END REVIEW: FEBRUARY 2012 Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene to assess Travelling Light by Nicholas Wright (National), The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett (Apollo), Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn (Harold Pinter), and Master Class by Terrence McNally (Vaudeville).

Co-creator of Yes, Prime Minister Jonathan Lynn explores comedy

7 August 2011

in Books, Comedy, Playwrights, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: JONATHAN LYNN The actor, director and co-writer, with Antony Jay, of the hit West End comedy show, Yes, Prime Minister (Apollo) – an updated theatre version of the classic 1980s BBC series – talks to Philip Fisher about his new book, Comedy Rules (Faber), political satire, and about his extensive and globetrotting career.

Lindsay Posner, director, on staging Simon Gray’s Butley

25 June 2011

in Directors, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: LINDSAY POSNER The director talks about his current West End revival of the late Simon Gray’s Butley. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

West End Review: June 2011 (1/2)

18 June 2011

in Reviews and Roundtables, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

WEST END REVIEW: REVIVALS SPECIAL

Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) assess Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s Theatre), starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and at Shakespeare’s Globe, starring Eve Best and Charles Edwards, A Delicate Balance (Almeida Theatre) and Butley, starring Dominic West (Duchess Theatre).

Matthew Kelly talks about his acting career

22 March 2011

in Actors and Performers, Comedy, Theatre People

INTERVIEW: MATTHEW KELLY Heather Neill pops backstage at the Duchess Theatre to talk to the erstwhile TV presenter, best-known for Stars in Their Eyes, who has returned to his theatrical roots, undertaking a remarkable range of roles – the latest being the engineer Frank in Tim Firth’s comic two-hander Sign of the Times.

Director Ian Rickson discusses Lillian Hellman

17 February 2011

in 20th-century Drama, American Drama, Directors

INTERVIEW: IAN RICKSON The director talks to Carole Woddis about his hit West End production of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), which stars Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in a play that was scandalous on its first outing in 1934, and continues to be relevant. Recorded at Graeae.

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.

Actor, writer and comedian Meera Syal interviewed

30 October 2010

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Comedy

ASIAN VOICES: MEERA SYAL The actor, writer and comedian talks to Suman Bhuchar about her role in Willy Russell’s 1986 classic Shirley Valentine (Trafalgar Studios), her film and writing career, and her advice to aspiring actors. Recorded in her dressing room, Trafalgar Studios.

West End Theatre: past plays, posters and passions

7 June 2010

in 19th-century Drama, Theatre People

NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATRE SPECIAL While walking around the exhibition of West End Theatre in the 19th Century at the National Theatre, which features posters, playbills and costumes, Heather Neill talks to Judith Bottomley, local studies librarian at the Westminster City Archive, source of many of the exhibits, and Robert Tanitch, author of The London Stage in the Nineteenth Century (Carnegie), about the dramatic arts of the Regency and Victorian eras.

Roger Rees on starring in Waiting for Godot

11 February 2010

in 1950s Drama, 20th-century Drama, Actors and Performers,

INTERVIEW: ROGER REES The Welsh actor, who has made his return to the London stage as Vladimir in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (Haymarket) opposite Ian McKellen’s Estragon, talks about the role, his days at the RSC and his more recent work. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

New York: Hair tribal rock musical revival

5 January 2010

in Actors and Performers, American Drama, Musicals

NEW YORK SPECIAL: HAIR Cast members Gavin Creel and Caissie Levy talk to Philip Fisher about the current Broadway revival of Hair (Al Hirschfeld Theatre), the 1967 Tribal Love-Rock Musical, its characters and the politics of the show, and the chance of bringing it to the West End in April.

West End Review: December 2009

18 December 2009

in Reviews and Roundtables

WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss the latest West End and off-West End openings: Red (Donmar Warehouse), The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre), Rope (Almeida), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello) and Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory). Recorded at the V&A.

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.

The Theatres Trust on saving theatre buildings

24 July 2009

in Theatre buildings

FOCUS ON THEATRE BUILDINGS Mhora Samuel, Director of the Theatres Trust, talks to Aleks Sierz about this organisation’s work in promoting the value of theatre buildings and championing their future. Recorded at Dewynters, London.

West End Review: July 2009 (2/2)

24 July 2009

in Musicals, Reviews and Roundtables

WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Jerusalem (Royal Court), The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios) and Sister Act (Palladium). Recorded at Dewynters, London.

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