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British Theatre Guide podcast — 321 episodes
Unity celebrates a century of radical theatre in Liverpool
Birmingham Rep returns to Shakespeare with Dream
Bryony Kimmings on Bog Witch and autobiographical theatre
Little Shop of Horrors in Derby and Newcastle
Henry Goodman in Arthur Miller's The Price
Taking Loach's I, Daniel Blake from screen to stage
English Touring Opera's first Sheffield tour opening
Ockham's Razor directors return with aerial two-hander
Allan Stewart: fifty years in pantomime
Big Tiny pantos across the North West
Study into effects of COVID on British theatre
Playwright David Ireland: from 'The Troubles' to romantic comedy
Inaugural production of new company honouring Buzz Goodbody
Watford gets giant Stephen Fry in panto
Rebecca and Louise present Evita... the sequel?
30 years of Border Crossings—and Bruford online BA
Flat earthers look for the edge of the world in Antarctica
Night Waking on Mull
Martin Sherman, from the Boardwalk to Bent
Marks and Gran ask if Freud could have saved the world from Hitler
Edinburgh 2025: Emily Woof looks back to '60s feminism and John Lennon
The Wedding Present musical to open in the band's Leeds birthplace
Edinburgh 2025: The 100-year-old clown and The Chase's Vixen on whether ABBA existed
Classic Thrillers return to Nottingham for 2025
Scotland's The List celebrates 40 years in print
Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winners 2025
New Mosse family novel—from theatre writing specialist Greg
New play features Jason Isaacs as the head of William Burroughs
Deafinitely's Vagina Monologues on short UK tour
Gatsby in Pitlochry and Derby
Brits Off Broadway takes UK theatre to New York
Hayman tours as Miller's Willy Loman
Emma Rice brings Hitchcock thriller to the stage
Manchester International Festival programme launch 2025
New Perspectives on Jane Upton's (the) Woman
Pilot brings Mary Wollstonecraft back to East Yorkshire
Mama G takes the panto dame from stage to picture book
20 years of Evolution pantos
Fierce Festival Birmingham 2024
JB Shorts celebrates 15 years and 25 selections of new plays in Manchester
Derby Theatre takes a miners' trip to Skegness
Ishiguro comes to the stage at Rose Theatre, Kingston
Guy Masterson's 30th and final Edinburgh Fringe as producer
Just the Tonic celebrates 20 years on the Edinburgh Fringe
Morecambe, Cooper and Monkhouse have The Last Laugh in Edinburgh
New Wolsey travels 500 miles to Pitlochry with Footloose
GSC celebrates 18th by closing off Guildford High Street
Twelfth Night in Regent's Park, London
Now, I See continues Malaolu's family trilogy at Stratford East
Greg Hicks is Dostoyevsky's Ridiculous Man in London
fix+foxy brings alternative Wild West story to Manchester
imitating the dog follows Dracula and Living Dead with Frankenstein
New Roald Dahl family theatre; Witches and Croc are just the start
Almond's Ella Grey to open at home in Newcastle
Gecko's migration stories travel to the National
Mark Thomas on England & Son
Stephen Schwartz on bringing The Prince from screen to stage and back to screen
Tamasha brings Indian partition to Manchester via Dickens
Willie White on the 2023 Dublin Theatre Festival
Edinburgh 2023: backhold wrestling at the Traverse
Michie and Young in new Arnott Summer Portrait
Mei Mac: from 4-year-old to century-old prisoner of Western stereotypes
As You Like It matured at the RSC
Edfringe 2023: Graeae's Jenny Sealey returns to performing after three decades
Zero-waste theatre The Greenhouse tours Docklands
Gypsy opens Pitlochry rep season
This is Kneehigh: online
Frank Exchanges with David Wood OBE
Factory launches Manchester International Festival 2023
David Greig resurrects The Egyptians
Ghost stories and gritty realism from Paradise Heights to Blaine Manor
Stage Door Jonny, a love letter to the stage
Ex-Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan takes panto online
Return to the VAULTS: London festival is back in 2023
Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 winners
Not Too Tame opening for Shakespeare North's Midsummer
MIF announces Factory opening for October 2023
Jekyll and Hyde divided between Derby and Hornchurch
Adrian Scarborough adapts Alan Bennett for Nottingham
Gitika on Road back to Oldham
Edfringe 2022: Peter Straker takes us on a musical theatre adventure
Edfringe 2022: Mischief returns to Edinburgh
Edfringe 2022: Any questions for QI creator John Lloyd?
27th GDIF brings free outdoor performance to London
Edfringe 2022: Jon Culshaw brings Morecambe team to Les Dawson
David Sefton at the Gulbenkian: from London to LA to Adelaide to Kent
Sally Rogers revives '80s Stockport in London
New Contact Artistic Director Keisha Thompson
Les Enfants' Chicken Legs comes to roost at HOME
Cameron's sold-out play For Black Boys transfers to Royal Court
Pilot brings Australian refugee story to UK
Vikki Stone: panto for the 2020s in Hammersmith
Nathaniel Parker returns as Henry VIII in RSC's Mantel trilogy
Ravenhill and Price jointly take over London's oldest pub theatre
Restarting the Edinburgh Festivals: Guy Masterson on his 27th Fringe
Brighton Fringe returns both online and in live venues
Comedian Kevin Day joins appeal for support and recognition for the live events industry
Staged star hears out leading theatre actors performing favourite speeches
UK Theatres at Risk in 2021
An adventurous 70th anniversary season at Pitlochry after a challenging 2020
Talawa tells verbatim tales from black frontline workers
Peter Polycarpou takes online audiences back to the music of the Roaring Twenties
Pursued by a Bear takes Nothing on Earth online
Theatre in a time of Pandemic
Kneehigh strikes out with post-lockdown plans in 40th anniversary year
Told by an Idiot invites families to Get Happy at Greenwich+Docklands
New Tara Arts Artistic Director Abdul Shayek
Godspell 50th anniversary concert streaming worldwide
Beats & Elements brings working class voices and beatboxing to online theatre
New Perspectives presents all-star recordings of David Rudkin pieces
All-star cast broadcasts to the world from Huddersfield
Slung Low streams civil war from Leeds
HOME brings Homemakers into your homes
Long John Silver sets sail for Derby Theatre for Easter
Dickens ascends Ramps on the Moon in Leeds and on tour
Crossing the Atlantic: NYT theatre critic Ben Brantley on theatre in New York and London
Sansom brings Barrie's Quality Street to the home of the chocolates, then on tour
See six varied plays in six days at Pitlochry
Crongton Knights ride into Coventry
imitating the dog recreates Romero horror classic for the stage
Jamie writer on awards to diverse Visionary creators
BTG podcast reaches 200: hear from our reviewers
Scrooge flies into Derby for Christmas
Supporting Mame in Manchester
Chekhov's Seagull adaptation rocks Bolton Library
Rich Kids of Tehran (and elsewhere) come to Manchester
Ongoing Mischief at the Vaudeville—and spreading
A gender-switched Enemy of the People in Nottingham
New management team at the Rep
Three decades of a male friendship on tour in Under Three Moons
One Man, Two Theatres: Richard Bean's comedy in Derby and Hornchurch
Edinburgh 2019: Shakespeare for Breakfast and Paines Plough's Roundabout
Edinburgh 2019: Owen O'Neill is Shaving the Dead
Edinburgh 2019: The Wardrobe Ensemble and Daniel Bye
Classic Thrillers return to Nottingham Theatre Royal
New Octagon Artistic Director launches her first season
Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester
Lisa Holdsworth: bringing Andrea Dunbar's story back to Bradford
Braham Murray: how the Royal Exchange Theatre was born in Manchester
MIF 2019: John McGrath, Leo Warner and Phelim McDermott
Derby Theatre takes BSL to the Jungle
MIF launch 2019
From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant
Box of Tricks sets spark to new play from Manchester actor and writer David Judge
Much Ado About Benedick at Northern Broadsides
New consortium for theatre for young people stages Blackman's Noughts and Crosses
Three years of actors' honesty with Jonathan Harden
Christmas Crimes in Lichfield
"Follow your dream"—to the Marlowe's Cinderella
Hansel and Gretel follow the trail to Derby for Christmas
Enter pantoland with Imagine Theatre at 14 UK venues
Director Lily Sykes on bringing Genet's Maids to Manchester Home
Pauline McLynn brings Courage to Red Ladder's fiftieth birthday
Fo at Broadsides: translating '70s Italian political farce to Brexit Britain
RashDash on what we may find in their (and our) Future Bodies
Rankin's Inspector Rebus embarks on first UK tour
SBC Theatre considers Where We Began with migrant stories
Jude Christian directs othellomacbeth at HOME Manchester
Stella Duffy: bringing Joan Littlewood's idea of fun to a palace near to you
Edinburgh 2018: Rick Conte on The Time Machine and Guy Masterson's 25th Fringe
Bringing the thrills back to the Royal in Nottingham
Hopkins and Middleton are The One in Soho
Take a bus to a Summer Holiday in Bolton
Filament Theatre brings Space Rabbit down to Earth
Theatre in Paris opened up for English-speaking theatre-goers
Tiger Lillies bring Mexico to Manchester
Jake Murray brings Jesus to Elysium in Manchester and Durham
Our online Legacy explored across the generations at York Theatre Royal
Brining brings Proclaimers' Leith Sunshine to Leeds
Tribute to John Blackmore, featuring Mark Babych
Community drama class comes HOME in Circle Mirror Transformation
McKenzie and Mousley are Cartwright's Two in Derby
Greene's Brighton Rock opens in York—with Bryony Lavery, Esther Richardson and Hannah Peel
Joseph Houston on the rapid rise of Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre
Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu's Homecoming in New York
HOME Manchester gives PUSH to Manchester theatre creators
Village Voice critic Feingold on New York theatre 2017/18
Andrew Pollard: around the UK in 6 pantos
Atack Heartworms his way to £16,000 Bruntwood top prize
Sally Cookson on adapting C S Lewis to in-the-round at the Quarry
Asylum and refuge: Theatre of Sanctuary from SBC
Vanya comes HOME to Manchester for Revolution centenary
TakeOver Festival at York Theatre Royal
Adam Penford on taking over Nottm Playhouse
Hear from Rita, Sue and Bob Too: Out of Joint tours Andrea Dunbar revival
Great Expectations: Dickens in Derby
Investigating Calderdale's relationship with water with 509 in Halifax
Gilly Roche on new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse
For Love or Money: Blake Morrison and Northern Broadsides
Kevin Fegan on The Ruck, The Shed Crew and 30 years as a playwright
Edinburgh 2017: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan and Mark Fisher
Graeme Macrae Burnet at the Book Festival and Milly Thomas at the Fringe
Lara Foot of Baxter Theatre and Monica Dolan, Edinburgh Fringe 2017
All We Ever Wanted... Hull's Middle Child at Latitude
Clod Ensemble's On the High Road - Festival Edit at Latitude
Suffragettes in York from York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre
Ellie Harrison on latest Grief Series work The Unfair
Wertenbaker's Winter Hill in Bolton
Barrie Rutter on Richard III and 25 years of Northern Broadsides
Looking into The Darkest Corners with RashDash
Amy Letman on Transform Festival in Leeds
MIF launch 2017
Pinter's Betrayal in Derby
Playwright Lizzy Nunnery on Narvik for Box of Tricks
Village Voice's Michael Feingold on the New York theatre scene
Conrad Lynch on his first season at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake
New Perspectives on rural touring of classic ghost story
Joyce Branagh on directing Huddersfield theatre's first panto
Alex Chisholm on North Country from Freedom Studios
Luke Wright's What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
Hugh Maynard and Sophie-Louise Dann on Sweeney Todd at Derby Theatre
Kate Anthony on playing Priestley with Northern Broadsides
Edinburgh 2016: Joyce McMillan on 35 years of Theatre in Scotland
Edinburgh 2016: Richard Jordan, Joyce McMillan, Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper
Edinburgh 2016: Bucket List, Glass Menagerie, Ghost Quartet
Phelim McDermott talks Improbable and Animo
Classic Thriller Season at Nottingham Theatre Royal
The Paper Birds go Mobile in a caravan
Writer Nell Dunn on her 50-year writing career
Roxanne Pallett on Some Girls and The Wedding Singer
Vicky McClure & new John Harvey adaptation for Nottingham's Sweet Vengeance
Puppet State does Tolkien's Niggle in Scotland
Neil Duffield on adapting E M Forster science fiction tale
Evan Placey on writing WiLd for tutti frutti
The Glass Menagerie at Nottingham Playhouse
Look Back in Anger's 60th at Derby Theatre
Michael Harrison on producing pantos and West End musicals
New York theatre: Jeremy Herrin and Jesse Berger
Michael Feingold on the current New York theatre scene
Donovan Christian Cary in panto in Aldershot
Alex Wright of The Flanagan Collective on The Great Gatsby at The Fleeting Arms in York
Inkheart: HOME Manchester's first Christmas
A tale of two Snow Whites: Natasha Holmes of Tell Tale Hearts and Liv Lorent of balletLORENT
Playwright Emma Reeves on Snow Child for tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal
Pilot Theatre's Outsiders, re-imagining Camus
Robert Powell on playing King Charles III and his 50-year career
Michael Billington on his career and new book The 101 Greatest Plays
Conrad Nelson on The Winter's Tale for Northern Broadsides
Critics Mark Fisher and Neil Cooper on Edinburgh 2015
Richard Jordan on EIF and Edfringe
Fergus Linehan, director of Edinburgh International Festival
EdFringe 2015: actor and writer Pip Utton and comedian and animator Howard Read
EdFringe 2015: playwright Philip Meeks, James Seager of Les Enfants Terribles and Guy Masterson
David Slack and Annika Edge on 24:7 Theatre Festival 2015
The Lowry Studio Showcase 2015
Ella Carmen Greenhill and Adam Quayle on Plastic Figurines for Box of Tricks
Elizabeth Newman on becoming new Octagon Theatre Bolton artistic director
Barrie Rutter and Catherine Kinsella on performing King Lear with Northern Broadsides
Douglas McGrath on writing Beautiful - the Carole King Musical
Jonny Donohoe on performing Every Brilliant Thing for Paines Plough
Panto Dame Leon Craig in Oxford and Keith Jack and Olly Pike in Cinderella in Horsham
Re:Play Festival 2015 from Home Manchester
Panto writer and director Simon Aylin
David Cromer on Our Town at the Almeida
Tim Webb of Oily Cart Theatre Company on There Was An Old Woman
Michael Rudman on his life as a leading UK and US theatre director
Mike Tweddle on the Best of BE Festival tour 2014
Pete Brooks of Imitating the Dog on Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
Marcus Romer of Pilot Theatre on Antigone
Manchester Shakespeare: Maxine Peake's Hamlet at Royal Exchange and Home's Romeo and Juliet at Victoria Baths
Writer and performer Neil Gore on United We Stand from Townsend Productions
Edinburgh 2014: producer Richard Jordan, Hannah Price of Theatre Uncut and Guy Masterson
Edinburgh 2014: Baby Wants Candy and James Grieve of Paines Plough
Edinburgh 2014: Horse + Bamboo's Red Riding Hood and Blofeld and Baxter Memories of Test Match Special
Director Conrad Nelson on She Stoops to Conquer for Northern Broadsides
Actors Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann on touring in John Godber's April in Paris
Louise Lowe and the cast of Angel Meadow from ANU Productions and HOME Manchester
Daniel Boys and Lauren Samuels on Love Story at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Mike Shepherd and Charles Hazlewood on Kneehigh's Dead Dog in a Suitcase
National Theatre on tour: War Horse, One Man Two Guvnors, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Annie Get Your Gun on tour: director Ian Talbot OBE and actor Norman Pace
Mark Babych on A Taste of Honey at Hull Truck Theatre
Manchester Theatre Awards ceremony 2014
Ellie Nunn on Bombshells
Jersey Boys: cast and production team on first ever UK tour
Anya Reiss on the Library Theatre revival of her adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull
Deborah McAndrew on An August Bank Holiday Lark with Northern Broadsides
New York: Bryce Pinkham on The Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols on Bedlam Theatre
Walter Meierjohann and Dave Moutrey on creation of new Home Manchester arts centre
Panto: Nottingham Playhouse's Jack and the Beanstalk and Birmingham Hippodrome's Snow White
Kat B and Matt Dempsey on Hackney Empire Puss in Boots and Phil Gallagher on Marlowe Canterbury Jack and the Beanstalk
Anna Jordan announced as winner of Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2013
Nick Hern on 25 years as a specialist theatre book publisher
Martin Barrass on playing the fool in the York Theatre Royal panto for 28 years
Paul Holman and Lee Waddingham of pantomime producers Paul Holman Associates
Tom Morton-Smith and Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder on In Doggerland from Box of Tricks
Stuart Rogers and Roxana Silbert on reopening of refurbished Birmingham REP
Edinburgh 2013: Philip Zeigler on Laurence Olivier, director Michael Bogdanov, Fringe veteran Pip Utton
Edfringe 2013: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Orla O'Loughlin and Howard Read
Edinburgh Fringe preview: Theatre of Widdershins, Puppet State Theatre, Les Enfants Terribles and Phil Nichol
Co-founder Simon Willis and presenters Alex Gaumond and Louise Dearman on Stage Door Internet radio station for musical theatre
Founder David Slack and some of this year's writers on Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival
MIF: Alexander Vlahos on Macbeth and Hadley Fraser on The Machine
Seth Numrich on Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic
Sarah Greene on The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward Theatre
Joe Sumsion on The Dukes Robin Hood, and a walk around Williamson Park
Writer Polly Wiseman and director Paul Jepson on Manchester Sound: The Massacre for Library Theatre
In Battalions: playwright Fin Kennedy on his report on the effects of funding cuts on new theatre writing
Sarah Brigham on taking over at Derby Theatre and director Mark Babych and actor Jack Lord on its first production
Artistic director Stephen Barlow on the 2013 Buxton Festival
Playwright Tim Fountain and director Mike Bradwell on Queen of the Nile for Hull Truck
Tommy Luther on the UK tour of War Horse
Manchester International Festival 2013 programme is announced
Playwright Amanda Whittington on three new play openings
Indhu Rubasingham after her first season at the Tricycle
Manchester's Library Theatre Company revives Brecht's Mother Courage at The Lowry
Tara Fitzgerald talks about her RSC debut
Andrew Quick of Imitating the Dog on The Zero Hour and 6 Degrees Below the Horizon
Ben Roddy on playing panto dame for the first time at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury
Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides on the forthcoming tour of Rutherford and Son
Philip Fisher talks to The Village Voice's Michael Feingold in New York City
Susannah Flood talks about playing Sylvia in Nina Raine's Tribes in New York
Simon Fielding on panto at the Towngate Theatre Basildon
Playwright Richard Vergette on American Justice at the Arts Theatre in London
David Chadderton talks to the principal cast members of The Lion King tour in Manchester
Kevin Shaw on the long panto tradition at Oldham Coliseum
James Graham - The National Theatre's latest "Big Discovery"
Octagon founder Robin Pemberton Billing: a tribute from David Thacker and recollections from Robert Powell
Jodie Prenger on returning to Blackpool in One Man Two Guvnors
Porl Cooper of The Lowry Studio
Paul Hendy of Evolution Productions