98 stories by "Editors"
INTERVIEW: JOHN KANI. South African actor and playwright John Kani looks back over his life with Matt Trueman, focusing on the way art grounded his activism against apartheid. They discuss t…
INTERVIEW: PENELOPE WILTON. As she stars in a revival of David Hare's 1986 play The Bay at Nice at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Downton Abbey actor discusses the highlights of her 50-ye…
DISCUSSION: FRANCES MAYLI MCCANN, JOHNNY MCKNIGHT, JULIE WILSON NIMMO. Actors McCann, McKnight and Wilson Nimmo discuss the vibrancy of the pantomime tradition in Scotland and explore how it…
INTERVIEW: SHARON D. CLARKE. As she storms the West End with a revelatory performance in Caroline or Change, musical stalwart Sharon D. Clarke discusses her career with critic David Benedict…
INTERVIEW: BREACH THEATRE. One of the smartest emerging companies in British theatre, Breach Theatre are interrogating the nature of veracity on stage. Against the backdrop of the post-truth…
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: KEN CAMPBELL. Back in 2004, the legendary eccentric of British theatre spoke to Dominic Cavendish about his life and work. In the course of a delirious and rambling conver…
INTERVIEW: RACHEL CHAVKIN. As Anais Mitchell's contemporary folk opera Hadestown continues at the National Theatre ahead of its Broadway run, director Rachel Chavkin talks to Matt Trueman ab…
INTERVIEW: MICHAEL BOYD. Belfast-born director Michael Boyd ran the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2003 and 2012, during which time he stabilised its finances, restored its reputation, overs…
INTERVIEW: ALAN LANE. Slung Low's artistic director tells Catherine Love about the company's radical transformation over the last decade, from an independent experimental company to a social…
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: SONIA FRIEDMAN. In October 2003, producer Sonia Friedman sat down to discuss the state of the West End with critic Dominic Cavendish. The picture wasn't rosy: the war on t…
INTERVIEW: NEIL AUSTIN. The celebrated British lighting designer tells Luke Jones about the tricks of his trade and touches on a rich variety of shows including Albion at the Almeida Theatre…
Nowadays I'm less interested in causing maybe a huge stir or making something achingly beautiful on the whole. Now it's more like: take a sizable hunk out of the corner somewhere and maddeni…
INTERVIEW: JONATHAN PRYCE. Jonathan Pryce talks about appearing in Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, in which he plays a novelist who may or may not be grieving for his wife of…
What, for the theater, are our tablecloths, forks, spoons, plates and bowls that maybe aren't actually serving us anymore? Is how we are making theater and performance the best way it cou…
I grew up in a yellow house in West Seneca, NY, a suburb of Buffalo. My bedroom window was on the second floor in between the windows of my sisters, though I am the youngest, with a huge map…
"Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil." We need money, but money is not the only way to define our value.
Jeremy M. Barker and Matthew Goulish discuss Every house has a door's "The Three Matadores"
Aw man. I wish I was a kick ass Trumpet player or something.
Editors Note: We caught up with Alice Pencavel, who has written a few wonderful pieces for this very publication and now has a show coming up in the United Solo Festival on Tuesday, October …
"I really wish I knew how to drive." - Jess Barbagallo responds to FIVE QUESTIONS
Alexandra Beller and Ivan TalijanÄić in conversation about choice-making, dramaturgy, and building Mindflock.
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The NY-based director discusses her collaboration with choreographer/dancer Anne Juren, part of PS 122's 2013 COIL Festival
