TakeOver Festival at York Theatre Royal
Mark Smith talks to emerging director Julia Levai and York Theatre Royal Associate Director Juliet Forster about the theatre's TakeOver Festival. The festival pairs Theatre Royal staff with emerging a...
17 Okt 201727min
Adam Penford on taking over Nottm Playhouse
Adam Penford has taken over as artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse. The 37-year-old had been working as a freelance director and replaces Giles Croft who had been at the helm of the Playhouse fo...
14 Okt 201724min
Hear from Rita, Sue and Bob Too: Out of Joint tours Andrea Dunbar revival
Director Max Stafford-Clarke has revived for his theatre company Out of Joint Andrea Dunbar's play Rita, Sue and Bob Too, which he directed originally while Artistic Director of the Royal Court in Lon...
4 Okt 201739min
Great Expectations: Dickens in Derby
Derby Theatre is to produce Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations directed by artistic director Sarah Brigham. BTG's Midlands editor Steve Orme spoke during rehearsals to ...
29 Sep 201728min
Investigating Calderdale's relationship with water with 509 in Halifax
Mark Smith interviews Jenny Harris, creative producer for 509 Arts, about their production Calderland. Forming the centrepiece of the Landlines & Watermarks project, this "people's opera" aims to inve...
26 Sep 201718min
Gilly Roche on new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse
Mark Smith talks to Gilly Roche, the West Yorkshire Playhouse's New Work Producer, as she launches this year's Furnace Festival celebrating a range of new work in the north. Roche has been part of a r...
21 Sep 201717min
For Love or Money: Blake Morrison and Northern Broadsides
Northern Broadsides theatre company's For Love or Money, directed by and featuring company founder Barrie Rutter, has been adapted from a French play, Turcaret by Alain-Rene Lesage, by regular Broadsi...
18 Sep 201720min
Kevin Fegan on The Ruck, The Shed Crew and 30 years as a playwright
Playwright Kevin Fegan talks to BTG editor David Chadderton about his 30-year career as a playwright and, more specifically, about his new plays opening soon: The Ruck opens on the main stage at the ...
13 Sep 201727min
