Jake Murray brings Jesus to Elysium in Manchester and Durham
Director Jake Murray, who was co-artistic director for Manchester's Royal Exchange Studio space with current Exchange Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom until he left Manchester in 2008, is back in the ...
11 Huhti 201830min
Our online Legacy explored across the generations at York Theatre Royal
Legacy is a new play written by Paul Birch for the York Theatre Royal as an intergenerational collaboration: its cast is made up of Youth Theatre members as well as actors aged 65-plus from the local ...
6 Huhti 201821min
Brining brings Proclaimers' Leith Sunshine to Leeds
James Brining has been Artistic Director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse since 2012. Prior to that, he spent sixteen years in Scotland as Artistic Director of TAG Theatre and then Dundee Rep. He talks...
25 Maalis 201838min
Tribute to John Blackmore, featuring Mark Babych
On 20 February 2018, regional theatre director, artistic director and chief executive John Blackmore died at the age of 77. He was chief executive at Bolton's Octagon Theatre for 12 years, but he also...
18 Maalis 201853min
Community drama class comes HOME in Circle Mirror Transformation
Pullitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation is being revived by director Bijan Sheibani for HOME Manchester in March 2018. Set in a creative drama class in a communit...
6 Maalis 201820min
McKenzie and Mousley are Cartwright's Two in Derby
Midlands editor Steve Orme speaks to actors Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley about performing Jim Cartwright's popular two-hander Two at Derby Theatre. The play, which premièred at the Octagon Theatre in ...
1 Maalis 201821min
Greene's Brighton Rock opens in York—with Bryony Lavery, Esther Richardson and Hannah Peel
Mark Smith talks to Esther Richardson, Bryony Lavery and Hannah Peel in a busy York Theatre Royal café about Pilot Theatre's new adaptation of Brighton Rock. They discuss the appeal of Brighton Rock's...
23 Helmi 201825min
Joseph Houston on the rapid rise of Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre
In November 2015, a new fringe theatre opened up in Ancoats, Manchester with the ambition of presenting full-scale commercial productions of musicals. Created by musical theatre performers Joseph Hous...
30 Tammi 201831min
