98 stories by "Editors"
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: JONATHAN MILLER. The legendary late director Jonathan Miller spoke to Judi Herman about his fifth " and final " attempt at King Lear in 2015. Having directed Northern Broa…
INTERVIEW: PAMELA CARTER AND STEWART LAING. Playwright Pamela Carter and director-designer Stewart Laing have worked together on a string of ground-breaking shows since Slope in 2006. In the…
INTERVIEW: SARAH FRANKCOM. As she finishes her tenure at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sarah Frankcom looks back over her decade in the artistic director's chair and, before that, 10 years …
INTERVIEW: JULIE TAYMOR. To mark its 20th anniversary in the West End, The Lion King's director joins Dominic Cavendish to look back at the show's beginnings. Surveying its astonishing succe…
There is no preaching to the choir when it comes to considering reparations, because there is no choir. It's a lonely act.
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: SHUNT COLLECTIVE. A decade has passed since the Shunt Vaults shut up shop to make way for the new London Bridge station. Before it opened its doors, critic Dominic Cavendi…
INTERVIEW: RACHEL O'RIORDAN. The new artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith tells Lyn Gardner about her route to and plans for one of London's largest subsidised theatres. They discus…
INTERVIEW: ALEXANDER ZELDIN. Following the final edition of his trilogy about the unseen hardships of austerity Britain, the rising director Alexander Zeldin tells Dominic Cavendish about th…
INTERVIEW: NED GLASIER. As Islington's pioneering youth theatre Company Three marks a decade of socially-engaged practice, its artistic director Ned Glasier tells Matt Trueman about the orga…
INTERVIEW: LUCY ELLINSON. As she steps onto the Manchester Royal Exchange stage to play Macbeth, actor Lucy Ellinson tells Catherine Love about putting her politics and her principles into h…
Each time we stumbled across a new challenge, we took note of how we could prepare for it in the future. Such is the reality of doing something new -- you don't know until you know, and once…
"I'll just put my bias on the table." What is the impact of the work? "Let's turn over the rock and see what's under there." Terry says.
INTERVIEW: LUCY KIRKWOOD. Following Chimerica's outing as a Channel 4 miniseries, British playwright Lucy Kirkwood talks to Dominic Cavendish about adapting her hit stage play for the small …
I was hired to perform as a sort of Vanna White car model at an auto show in New Hampshire. I had to memorize 2 pages of facts about a new model of Subaru, which I repeated over and over int…
INTERVIEW: ELEANOR LLOYD AND KATE McGRATH. Critic Matt Trueman talks to two independent producers " commercial producer Eleanor Lloyd and co-founder of FUEL Kate McGrath " about the diversit…
INTERVIEW: ISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE. Acclaimed stage composer Isobel Waller-Bridge gives Matt Trueman a crash course in an under-appreciated art-form. Distinguishing between the disciplines of s…
INTERVIEW: ANU PRODUCTIONS. As they celebrate the company's tenth anniversary this year, Louise Lowe and Owen Boss of ANU Productions sit down with writer and critic Saoirse Anton for a conv…
INTERVIEW: LYNN NOTTAGE. Ahead of Sweat's transfer to the West End, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage talks to New York-based critic Helen Shaw about the play and i…
The other morning, Lila woke up and her first question was "Mama, how do you start to write a musical?" which, I admit, made me feel proud.
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: IAN RICKSON. To mark the approaching tenth anniversary of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, another chance to listen to its director Ian Rickson tell critic Aleks Sierz about t…
INTERVIEW: RIDICULUSMUS. David Woods and John Haynes of the performance duo Ridiculusmus look back over their body of work with the critic Lyn Gardner. They discuss their recent trilogy exam…
INTERVIEW: KATHRYN HUNTER. Having just played Timon of Athens for the Royal Shakespeare Company " a production that will go to New York in due course " Kathryn Hunter has added another impro…
PANEL DISCUSSION: THEATRE PHOTOGRAPHY. As a collection of Ivan Kyncl's production photography goes on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, theatre photographers Manuel Harlan, J…
INTERVIEW: TRACY LETTS. With August: Osage County running at the National Theatre, the American playwright Tracy Letts sat down with Philip Fisher in the summer of 2008 to discuss his Pulitz…
INTERVIEW: A PLAY A PIE AND A PINT. Since its launch by the late David MacLennan in 2004, Glasgow's lunchtime theatre A Play, a Pie and a Pint has made an indelible mark on the Scottish t…
