378 stories by "Nick Smurthwaite"
The producer who brought a season of Russian plays to Theatre Royal Haymarket is back with Tartuffe. He tells Nick Smurthwaite about
Unperformed professionally since its first West End run, The Biograph Girl depicts stars of the silent movie era. Book writer Warner Brown
Alongside her stage and screen career, Amanda Root set up a charity to help those in need through creative arts. Now appearing
The iconic institution has helped launch the careers of some of the UK's most distinguished actors, with numerous successful shows to its
Discharged from the army at 22, Jonathan Guy Lewis embarked on a stage career. The actor and writer tells Nick Smurthwaite how
Ten years after its first staging, the award-winning Sunshine on Leith is revived for a tour that takes in Scotland to Coventry,
After training as a designer, Terry Herfield found her calling as a costume supervisor. She tells Nick Smurthwaite how she manages to
With a long history of rewrites and revisions, Chess is being revived at the London Coliseum this month. Nick Smurthwaite looks at
One of the West End's most in-demand musical directors, Nicholas Skilbeck's recent work includes Follies and the new show based on the life
Stagecoach, which this year celebrates its 30th birthday, has provided a platform for actors, singers and dancers. Nick Smurthwaite looks at its
A familiar face on film and TV, Roger Allam is returning to the West End in The Moderate Soprano. He tells Nick
The lyricist of some of the best-loved musicals of all time would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Music academic Dominic
Inspired by Aphra Behn, Mary Pix was among the most popular playwrights on the 17th-century theatre circuit, but fell out of fashion.
Interest in stage apprenticeships has never been greater, with more than 30 applicants for every vacancy. As National Apprentice Week ends, Nick
As Agnes Colander receives its premiere after 116 years, Nick Smurthwaite investigates why Harley Granville Barker's potentially incendiary work never made it
'One of the first celebrities of Georgian England', Edmund Kean transformed classical performing. Now, actor and Shakespearean scholar Ian Hughes is resurrecting
At 70, the playwright Bryony Lavery continues to add to her repertoire of more than 50 plays. With Frozen, her biggest and
Henry James Byron is not the first Victorian playwright to come to mind, but he was a big hit in the mid-19th
Best known for 'geezer' roles on screen, Phil Daniels is a veteran stage actor, recently seen in the West End and Chichester.
As the private correspondence of Tyrone Guthrie is published for the first time, Nick Smurthwaite finds much humour in the 20th-century director's
Recognised as an unsung hero in The Stage Awards, Clare Ferraby has decorated and restored the interiors of some of the UK's
To mark Leonard Bernstein's centenary, David Charles Abell will conduct performances of his works in London next weekend. He tells Nick Smurthwaite about
The Royal Shakespeare Company's grade II-listed workshop has for some time mirrored its Victorian heritage in conditions, but 'enough was enough' for
A star in France in the 1920s, the actor, director and writer Sacha Guitry never achieved widespread fame in the UK. The
Growing out of an Arts Council England project, the London Theatre Consortium offers collaborative working from cutting carbon footprints to creating apprenticeships
