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British Theatre Guide podcast — 321 episodes

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Unity celebrates a century of radical theatre in Liverpool

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Birmingham Rep returns to Shakespeare with Dream

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Bryony Kimmings on Bog Witch and autobiographical theatre

4

Little Shop of Horrors in Derby and Newcastle

5

Henry Goodman in Arthur Miller's The Price

6

Taking Loach's I, Daniel Blake from screen to stage

7

English Touring Opera's first Sheffield tour opening

8

Ockham's Razor directors return with aerial two-hander

9

Allan Stewart: fifty years in pantomime

10

Big Tiny pantos across the North West

11

Study into effects of COVID on British theatre

12

Playwright David Ireland: from 'The Troubles' to romantic comedy

13

Inaugural production of new company honouring Buzz Goodbody

14

Watford gets giant Stephen Fry in panto

15

Rebecca and Louise present Evita... the sequel?

16

30 years of Border Crossings—and Bruford online BA

17

Flat earthers look for the edge of the world in Antarctica

18

Night Waking on Mull

19

Martin Sherman, from the Boardwalk to Bent

20

Marks and Gran ask if Freud could have saved the world from Hitler

21

Edinburgh 2025: Emily Woof looks back to '60s feminism and John Lennon

22

The Wedding Present musical to open in the band's Leeds birthplace

23

Edinburgh 2025: The 100-year-old clown and The Chase's Vixen on whether ABBA existed

24

Classic Thrillers return to Nottingham for 2025

25

Scotland's The List celebrates 40 years in print

26

Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winners 2025

27

New Mosse family novel—from theatre writing specialist Greg

28

New play features Jason Isaacs as the head of William Burroughs

29

Deafinitely's Vagina Monologues on short UK tour

30

Gatsby in Pitlochry and Derby

31

Brits Off Broadway takes UK theatre to New York

32

Hayman tours as Miller's Willy Loman

33

Emma Rice brings Hitchcock thriller to the stage

34

Manchester International Festival programme launch 2025

35

New Perspectives on Jane Upton's (the) Woman

36

Pilot brings Mary Wollstonecraft back to East Yorkshire

37

Mama G takes the panto dame from stage to picture book

38

20 years of Evolution pantos

39

Fierce Festival Birmingham 2024

40

JB Shorts celebrates 15 years and 25 selections of new plays in Manchester

41

Derby Theatre takes a miners' trip to Skegness

42

Ishiguro comes to the stage at Rose Theatre, Kingston

43

Guy Masterson's 30th and final Edinburgh Fringe as producer

44

Just the Tonic celebrates 20 years on the Edinburgh Fringe

45

Morecambe, Cooper and Monkhouse have The Last Laugh in Edinburgh

46

New Wolsey travels 500 miles to Pitlochry with Footloose

47

GSC celebrates 18th by closing off Guildford High Street

48

Twelfth Night in Regent's Park, London

49

Now, I See continues Malaolu's family trilogy at Stratford East

50

Greg Hicks is Dostoyevsky's Ridiculous Man in London

51

fix+foxy brings alternative Wild West story to Manchester

52

imitating the dog follows Dracula and Living Dead with Frankenstein

53

New Roald Dahl family theatre; Witches and Croc are just the start

54

Almond's Ella Grey to open at home in Newcastle

55

Gecko's migration stories travel to the National

56

Mark Thomas on England & Son

57

Stephen Schwartz on bringing The Prince from screen to stage and back to screen

58

Tamasha brings Indian partition to Manchester via Dickens

59

Willie White on the 2023 Dublin Theatre Festival

60

Edinburgh 2023: backhold wrestling at the Traverse

61

Michie and Young in new Arnott Summer Portrait

62

Mei Mac: from 4-year-old to century-old prisoner of Western stereotypes

63

As You Like It matured at the RSC

64

Edfringe 2023: Graeae's Jenny Sealey returns to performing after three decades

65

Zero-waste theatre The Greenhouse tours Docklands

66

Gypsy opens Pitlochry rep season

67

This is Kneehigh: online

68

Frank Exchanges with David Wood OBE

69

Factory launches Manchester International Festival 2023

70

David Greig resurrects The Egyptians

71

Ghost stories and gritty realism from Paradise Heights to Blaine Manor

72

Stage Door Jonny, a love letter to the stage

73

Ex-Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan takes panto online

74

Return to the VAULTS: London festival is back in 2023

75

Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 winners

76

Not Too Tame opening for Shakespeare North's Midsummer

77

MIF announces Factory opening for October 2023

78

Jekyll and Hyde divided between Derby and Hornchurch

79

Adrian Scarborough adapts Alan Bennett for Nottingham

80

Gitika on Road back to Oldham

81

Edfringe 2022: Peter Straker takes us on a musical theatre adventure

82

Edfringe 2022: Mischief returns to Edinburgh

83

Edfringe 2022: Any questions for QI creator John Lloyd?

84

27th GDIF brings free outdoor performance to London

85

Edfringe 2022: Jon Culshaw brings Morecambe team to Les Dawson

86

David Sefton at the Gulbenkian: from London to LA to Adelaide to Kent

87

Sally Rogers revives '80s Stockport in London

88

New Contact Artistic Director Keisha Thompson

89

Les Enfants' Chicken Legs comes to roost at HOME

90

Cameron's sold-out play For Black Boys transfers to Royal Court

91

Pilot brings Australian refugee story to UK

92

Vikki Stone: panto for the 2020s in Hammersmith

93

Nathaniel Parker returns as Henry VIII in RSC's Mantel trilogy

94

Ravenhill and Price jointly take over London's oldest pub theatre

95

Restarting the Edinburgh Festivals: Guy Masterson on his 27th Fringe

96

Brighton Fringe returns both online and in live venues

97

Comedian Kevin Day joins appeal for support and recognition for the live events industry

98

Staged star hears out leading theatre actors performing favourite speeches

99

UK Theatres at Risk in 2021

100

An adventurous 70th anniversary season at Pitlochry after a challenging 2020

101

Talawa tells verbatim tales from black frontline workers

102

Peter Polycarpou takes online audiences back to the music of the Roaring Twenties

103

Pursued by a Bear takes Nothing on Earth online

104

Theatre in a time of Pandemic

105

Kneehigh strikes out with post-lockdown plans in 40th anniversary year

106

Told by an Idiot invites families to Get Happy at Greenwich+Docklands

107

New Tara Arts Artistic Director Abdul Shayek

108

Godspell 50th anniversary concert streaming worldwide

109

Beats & Elements brings working class voices and beatboxing to online theatre

110

New Perspectives presents all-star recordings of David Rudkin pieces

111

All-star cast broadcasts to the world from Huddersfield

112

Slung Low streams civil war from Leeds

113

HOME brings Homemakers into your homes

114

Long John Silver sets sail for Derby Theatre for Easter

115

Dickens ascends Ramps on the Moon in Leeds and on tour

116

Crossing the Atlantic: NYT theatre critic Ben Brantley on theatre in New York and London

117

Sansom brings Barrie's Quality Street to the home of the chocolates, then on tour

118

See six varied plays in six days at Pitlochry

119

Crongton Knights ride into Coventry

120

imitating the dog recreates Romero horror classic for the stage

121

Jamie writer on awards to diverse Visionary creators

122

BTG podcast reaches 200: hear from our reviewers

123

Scrooge flies into Derby for Christmas

124

Supporting Mame in Manchester

125

Chekhov's Seagull adaptation rocks Bolton Library

126

Rich Kids of Tehran (and elsewhere) come to Manchester

127

Ongoing Mischief at the Vaudeville—and spreading

128

A gender-switched Enemy of the People in Nottingham

129

New management team at the Rep

130

Three decades of a male friendship on tour in Under Three Moons

131

One Man, Two Theatres: Richard Bean's comedy in Derby and Hornchurch

132

Edinburgh 2019: Shakespeare for Breakfast and Paines Plough's Roundabout

133

Edinburgh 2019: Owen O'Neill is Shaving the Dead

134

Edinburgh 2019: The Wardrobe Ensemble and Daniel Bye

135

Classic Thrillers return to Nottingham Theatre Royal

136

New Octagon Artistic Director launches her first season

137

Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester

138

Lisa Holdsworth: bringing Andrea Dunbar's story back to Bradford

139

Braham Murray: how the Royal Exchange Theatre was born in Manchester

140

MIF 2019: John McGrath, Leo Warner and Phelim McDermott

141

Derby Theatre takes BSL to the Jungle

142

MIF launch 2019

143

From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant

144

Box of Tricks sets spark to new play from Manchester actor and writer David Judge

145

Much Ado About Benedick at Northern Broadsides

146

New consortium for theatre for young people stages Blackman's Noughts and Crosses

147

Three years of actors' honesty with Jonathan Harden

148

Christmas Crimes in Lichfield

149

"Follow your dream"—to the Marlowe's Cinderella

150

Hansel and Gretel follow the trail to Derby for Christmas

151

Enter pantoland with Imagine Theatre at 14 UK venues

152

Director Lily Sykes on bringing Genet's Maids to Manchester Home

153

Pauline McLynn brings Courage to Red Ladder's fiftieth birthday

154

Fo at Broadsides: translating '70s Italian political farce to Brexit Britain

155

RashDash on what we may find in their (and our) Future Bodies

156

Rankin's Inspector Rebus embarks on first UK tour

157

SBC Theatre considers Where We Began with migrant stories

158

Jude Christian directs othellomacbeth at HOME Manchester

159

Stella Duffy: bringing Joan Littlewood's idea of fun to a palace near to you

160

Edinburgh 2018: Rick Conte on The Time Machine and Guy Masterson's 25th Fringe

161

Bringing the thrills back to the Royal in Nottingham

162

Hopkins and Middleton are The One in Soho

163

Take a bus to a Summer Holiday in Bolton

164

Filament Theatre brings Space Rabbit down to Earth

165

Theatre in Paris opened up for English-speaking theatre-goers

166

Tiger Lillies bring Mexico to Manchester

167

Jake Murray brings Jesus to Elysium in Manchester and Durham

168

Our online Legacy explored across the generations at York Theatre Royal

169

Brining brings Proclaimers' Leith Sunshine to Leeds

170

Tribute to John Blackmore, featuring Mark Babych

171

Community drama class comes HOME in Circle Mirror Transformation

172

McKenzie and Mousley are Cartwright's Two in Derby

173

Greene's Brighton Rock opens in York—with Bryony Lavery, Esther Richardson and Hannah Peel

174

Joseph Houston on the rapid rise of Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre

175

Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu's Homecoming in New York

176

HOME Manchester gives PUSH to Manchester theatre creators

177

Village Voice critic Feingold on New York theatre 2017/18

178

Andrew Pollard: around the UK in 6 pantos

179

Atack Heartworms his way to £16,000 Bruntwood top prize

180

Sally Cookson on adapting C S Lewis to in-the-round at the Quarry

181

Asylum and refuge: Theatre of Sanctuary from SBC

182

Vanya comes HOME to Manchester for Revolution centenary

183

TakeOver Festival at York Theatre Royal

184

Adam Penford on taking over Nottm Playhouse

185

Hear from Rita, Sue and Bob Too: Out of Joint tours Andrea Dunbar revival

186

Great Expectations: Dickens in Derby

187

Investigating Calderdale's relationship with water with 509 in Halifax

188

Gilly Roche on new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse

189

For Love or Money: Blake Morrison and Northern Broadsides

190

Kevin Fegan on The Ruck, The Shed Crew and 30 years as a playwright

191

Edinburgh 2017: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan and Mark Fisher

192

Graeme Macrae Burnet at the Book Festival and Milly Thomas at the Fringe

193

Lara Foot of Baxter Theatre and Monica Dolan, Edinburgh Fringe 2017

194

All We Ever Wanted... Hull's Middle Child at Latitude

195

Clod Ensemble's On the High Road - Festival Edit at Latitude

196

Suffragettes in York from York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre

197

Ellie Harrison on latest Grief Series work The Unfair

198

Wertenbaker's Winter Hill in Bolton

199

Barrie Rutter on Richard III and 25 years of Northern Broadsides

200

Looking into The Darkest Corners with RashDash

201

Amy Letman on Transform Festival in Leeds

202

MIF launch 2017

203

Pinter's Betrayal in Derby

204

Playwright Lizzy Nunnery on Narvik for Box of Tricks

205

Village Voice's Michael Feingold on the New York theatre scene

206

Conrad Lynch on his first season at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake

207

New Perspectives on rural touring of classic ghost story

208

Joyce Branagh on directing Huddersfield theatre's first panto

209

Alex Chisholm on North Country from Freedom Studios

210

Luke Wright's What I Learned From Johnny Bevan

211

Hugh Maynard and Sophie-Louise Dann on Sweeney Todd at Derby Theatre

212

Kate Anthony on playing Priestley with Northern Broadsides

213

Edinburgh 2016: Joyce McMillan on 35 years of Theatre in Scotland

214

Edinburgh 2016: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan, Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper

215

Edinburgh 2016: Bucket List, Glass Menagerie, Ghost Quartet

216

Phelim McDermott talks Improbable and Animo

217

Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham Theatre Royal

218

The Paper Birds go Mobile in a caravan

219

Writer Nell Dunn on her 50-year writing career

220

Roxanne Pallett on Some Girls and The Wedding Singer

221

Vicky McClure & new John Harvey adaptation for Nottingham's Sweet Vengeance

222

Puppet State does Tolkien's Niggle in Scotland

223

Neil Duffield on adapting E M Forster science fiction tale

224

Evan Placey on writing WiLd for tutti frutti

225

The Glass Menagerie at Nottingham Playhouse

226

Look Back in Anger's 60th at Derby Theatre

227

Michael Harrison on producing pantos and West End musicals

228

New York theatre: Jeremy Herrin and Jesse Berger

229

Michael Feingold on the current New York theatre scene

230

Donovan Christian Cary in panto in Aldershot

231

Alex Wright of The Flanagan Collective on The Great Gatsby at The Fleeting Arms in York

232

Inkheart: HOME Manchester's first Christmas

233

A tale of two Snow Whites: Natasha Holmes of Tell Tale Hearts and Liv Lorent of balletLORENT

234

Playwright Emma Reeves on Snow Child for tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal

235

Pilot Theatre's Outsiders, re-imagining Camus

236

Robert Powell on playing King Charles III and his 50-year career

237

Michael Billington on his career and new book The 101 Greatest Plays

238

Conrad Nelson on The Winter's Tale for Northern Broadsides

239

Critics Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper on Edinburgh 2015

240

Richard Jordan on EIF and Edfringe

241

Fergus Linehan, director of Edinburgh International Festival

242

EdFringe 2015: actor and writer Pip Utton and comedian and animator Howard Read

243

EdFringe 2015: playwright Philip Meeks, James Seager of Les Enfants Terribles and Guy Masterson

244

David Slack and Annika Edge on 24:7 Theatre Festival 2015

245

The Lowry Studio Showcase 2015

246

Ella Carmen Greenhill and Adam Quayle on Plastic Figurines for Box of Tricks

247

Elizabeth Newman on becoming new Octagon Theatre Bolton artistic director

248

Barrie Rutter and Catherine Kinsella on performing King Lear with Northern Broadsides

249

Douglas McGrath on writing Beautiful - the Carole King Musical

250

Jonny Donohoe on performing Every Brilliant Thing for Paines Plough

251

Panto Dame Leon Craig in Oxford and Keith Jack and Olly Pike in Cinderella in Horsham

252

Re:Play Festival 2015 from Home Manchester

253

Panto writer and director Simon Aylin

254

David Cromer on Our Town at the Almeida

255

Tim Webb of Oily Cart Theatre Company on There Was An Old Woman

256

Michael Rudman on his life as a leading UK and US theatre director

257

Mike Tweddle on the Best of BE Festival tour 2014

258

Pete Brooks of Imitating the Dog on Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

259

Marcus Romer of Pilot Theatre on Antigone

260

Manchester Shakespeare: Maxine Peake's Hamlet at Royal Exchange and Home's Romeo and Juliet at Victoria Baths

261

Writer and performer Neil Gore on United We Stand from Townsend Productions

262

Edinburgh 2014: producer Richard Jordan, Hannah Price of Theatre Uncut and Guy Masterson

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Edinburgh 2014: Baby Wants Candy and James Grieve of Paines Plough

264

Edinburgh 2014: Horse + Bamboo's Red Riding Hood and Blofeld and Baxter Memories of Test Match Special

265

Director Conrad Nelson on She Stoops to Conquer for Northern Broadsides

266

Actors Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann on touring in John Godber's April in Paris

267

Louise Lowe and the cast of Angel Meadow from ANU Productions and HOME Manchester

268

Daniel Boys and Lauren Samuels on Love Story at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton

269

Mike Shepherd and Charles Hazlewood on Kneehigh's Dead Dog in a Suitcase

270

National Theatre on tour: War Horse, One Man Two Guvnors, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

271

Annie Get Your Gun on tour: director Ian Talbot OBE and actor Norman Pace

272

Mark Babych on A Taste of Honey at Hull Truck Theatre

273

Manchester Theatre Awards ceremony 2014

274

Ellie Nunn on Bombshells

275

Jersey Boys: cast and production team on first ever UK tour

276

Anya Reiss on the Library Theatre revival of her adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull

277

Deborah McAndrew on An August Bank Holiday Lark with Northern Broadsides

278

New York: Bryce Pinkham on The Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols on Bedlam Theatre

279

Walter Meierjohann and Dave Moutrey on creation of new Home Manchester arts centre

280

Panto: Nottingham Playhouse's Jack and the Beanstalk and Birmingham Hippodrome's Snow White

281

Kat B and Matt Dempsey on Hackney Empire Puss in Boots and Phil Gallagher on Marlowe Canterbury Jack and the Beanstalk

282

Anna Jordan announced as winner of Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2013

283

Nick Hern on 25 years as a specialist theatre book publisher

284

Martin Barrass on playing the fool in the York Theatre Royal panto for 28 years

285

Paul Holman and Lee Waddingham of pantomime producers Paul Holman Associates

286

Tom Morton-Smith and Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder on In Doggerland from Box of Tricks

287

Stuart Rogers and Roxana Silbert on reopening of refurbished Birmingham REP

288

Edinburgh 2013: Philip Zeigler on Laurence Olivier, director Michael Bogdanov, Fringe veteran Pip Utton

289

Edfringe 2013: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Orla O'Loughlin and Howard Read

290

Edinburgh Fringe preview: Theatre of Widdershins, Puppet State Theatre, Les Enfants Terribles and Phil Nichol

291

Co-founder Simon Willis and presenters Alex Gaumond and Louise Dearman on Stage Door Internet radio station for musical theatre

292

Founder David Slack and some of this year's writers on Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival

293

MIF: Alexander Vlahos on Macbeth and Hadley Fraser on The Machine

294

Seth Numrich on Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic

295

Sarah Greene on The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward Theatre

296

Joe Sumsion on The Dukes Robin Hood, and a walk around Williamson Park

297

Writer Polly Wiseman and director Paul Jepson on Manchester Sound: The Massacre for Library Theatre

298

In Battalions: playwright Fin Kennedy on his report on the effects of funding cuts on new theatre writing

299

Sarah Brigham on taking over at Derby Theatre and director Mark Babych and actor Jack Lord on its first production

300

Artistic director Stephen Barlow on the 2013 Buxton Festival

301

Playwright Tim Fountain and director Mike Bradwell on Queen of the Nile for Hull Truck

302

Tommy Luther on the UK tour of War Horse

303

Manchester International Festival 2013 programme is announced

304

Playwright Amanda Whittington on three new play openings

305

Indhu Rubasingham after her first season at the Tricycle

306

Manchester's Library Theatre Company revives Brecht's Mother Courage at The Lowry

307

Tara Fitzgerald talks about her RSC debut

308

Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog on The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon

309

Ben Roddy on playing panto dame for the first time at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury

310

Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides on the forthcoming tour of Rutherford and Son

311

Philip Fisher talks to The Village Voice's Michael Feingold in New York City

312

Susannah Flood talks about playing Sylvia in Nina Raine's Tribes in New York

313

Simon Fielding on panto at the Towngate Theatre Basildon

314

Playwright Richard Vergette on American Justice at the Arts Theatre in London

315

David Chadderton talks to the principal cast members of The Lion King tour in Manchester

316

Kevin Shaw on the long panto tradition at Oldham Coliseum

317

James Graham - The National Theatre's latest "Big Discovery"

318

Octagon founder Robin Pemberton Billing: a tribute from David Thacker and recollections from Robert Powell

319

Jodie Prenger on returning to Blackpool in One Man Two Guvnors

320

Porl Cooper of The Lowry Studio

321

Paul Hendy of Evolution Productions