THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE CENTENARY CONFERENCE: 100 YEARS OF CRITICISM Lyn Gardner (Guardian) hosts a discussion on the subject of What Next? with Michael Coveney (Whatsonstage.com), Kerry Michael (artistic director, Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Mat...
SHAKESPEARE: TIMON OF ATHENS Simon Russell Beale, who plays the lead role in Nicholas Hytner's current production at the National Theatre, part of the World Shakespeare Festival, talks to Heather Neill about the play and the production.
THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: NICHOLAS HYTNER (1/2) The artistic director of the National Theatre talks to Mark Shenton about some of the songs that have meant the most to him during his career. Part of a special series at Jermyn Street Thea...
THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: NICHOLAS HYTNER (2/2) The artistic director of the National Theatre talks to Mark Shenton about some of the songs that have meant the most to him during his career. Part of a special series at Jermyn Street Thea...
NEW WRITING SPECIAL Lecture entitled Blasted and After: New Writing in British Theatre Today, about in-yer-face theatre in 1990s and its aftermath, given by Aleks Sierz (Visiting Research Fellow, Rose Bruford College) at a meeting of the Society for ...
FOCUS ON KANE Graham Saunders of Reading University talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest book, About Kane: The Playwright and the Work (Faber), which examines the output of Sarah Kane in the context of 1990s British theatre, and of her growing reput...
INTERVIEW: PETER GILL (1/2) The veteran director and playwright speaks to Aleks Sierz about his own production of his 1976 play, Small Change (currently revived at the Donmar), and about his early career at the Royal Court in the late 1950s and 1960s...
INTERVIEW: PETER GILL (2/2) The veteran director and playwright speaks some more to Aleks Sierz about his own production of his 1976 play, Small Change (currently revived at the Donmar), and about his early career at the Royal Court in the late 1950s...
INTERVIEW: HOWARD BRENTON On the eve of a major revival of The Romans in Britain at Sheffield Crucible, Aleks Sierz talks to the playwright about his most notorious work.
INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS HYTNER The National Theatre's artistic director talks to David Benedict about the job, his success so far and plans for the future.
INTERVIEW: TRISTAN FYNN-AIDUENU. Writer and director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu grew up in a Ghanaian household in South London, and discovered drama as a ...
INTERVIEW: MARK RAVENHILL. Mark Ravenhill exploded on to the theatre scene in 1996 at the Royal Court with his uncompromising play about young people...
INTERVIEW: FINN AND LEWIS DEN HERTOG. The sons of actor Ann Louise Ross and production manager Nils Den Hertog, brothers Finn and Lewis Den Hertog s...
INTERVIEW: ABDUL SHAYEK. In August 2020, Abdul Shayek took over the reigns as Artistic Director of Tara Theatre. Following his first 18 months in the...
ARCHIVE EDITION: Alecky Blythe is one of the leading practitioners in verbatim theatre, responsible for flexing and breaking the form with works like...
INTERVIEW: LISA SPIRLING. Sam Marlowe met Lisa Spirling, artistic director of Theatre503, in Battersea, South London, at a time of exciting redevelop...
