Photos and podcast: One-to-one with The Book Club’s Amanda Muggleton
If you have to work on your birthday, this is just the kind of work you want. After watching the wonderful Amanda Muggleton rip through her 90-minute one-woman comedy The Book Club on Friday night, I joined her one-on-one on the onstage sofa for more hilarity.
Photos and podcast: Coq-tales with Emma Hatton and Anna-Jane Casey
As part of the hour-long Coq-Tales on Thursday 13 October 2016, I got to chat to two incredible West End leading ladies, Anna-Jane Casey and Emma Hatton.
Photos and podcast: Mart Crowley and The Boys in the Band cast on making history
Mart Crowley’s seminal play, The Boys in the Band, premiered in New York in 1968, just 14 months before the Stonewall riots that ignited the gay rights movement.
Photos and podcast: Climbing metaphorical mountains with Pilgrims playwright Elinor Cook
Critic Matt Trueman described Elinor Cook's Pilgrims, about a pair of young mountain climbers, as the "peak of playwriting". I got to talk mountains, metaphors and much more with this whipsmart George Devine Award-winning playwright.
Podcast: Showcasing Caro Emerald and new musical That Man
Book writer Wendy Gill was inspired to write That Man after discovering the music of Dutch pop-jazz singer and YouTube sensation Caro Emerald, and it's Emerald's hits that punctuate proceedings.
Photos and podcast: Discussing the ‘war on terror’ at The American Wife Q&A
What if everything you’re ever known was thrown into question? And everything you ever trusted was subjected to doubt? When San Diego housewife Karen Ruiz’s husband is accused of being a terrorist, she endeavours to clear his name.
#HighTide2016 photos and podcast: Alexi Kaye Campbell, Elizabeth McGovern and Ben Miles
I made my HighTide Festival debut this weekend and what a privilege. Over the course of the weekend at this ten-day annual event, I had the privilege of chairing three hour-long "Face to Face" talks with world-class artists.
Photos and podcast: Post-show Q&A with Britten in Brooklyn’s writer, director and star Sadie Frost
A New York artistic commune in the early 1940s - occupied by British exiles Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, American novelist Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) and stripper Gypsy Rose Lee amongst many other artists - is the setting for Zoe Lewis' new play Britten in Brooklyn.
Photos and podcast: Post-show Q&A at the European premiere of NYC hit Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Two hapless understudies on a production of Waiting for Godot occupy their time backstage, trying to understand art, life, theatre and their precarious existence within it. Dave Hanson's hit New York comedy Waiting for Waiting for Godot receives its European premiere at London's St James Theatre.
Photos and podcast: Breaking taboos at Lazarus ‘Tis Pity debate
Are there any stage taboos left? John Ford's 17th-century romantic thriller 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, centring on an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister, is one of the most controversial in the classical canon. Does it still have the power to shock?
