Q&A photos and podcast: What’s most absurd about Murray Schisgal’s LUV?
What's most absurd about absurdist comedy LUV? That it's virtually unknown in this country - despite an incredible pedigree.
Q&A photos and podcast: Feeling the rage with Donny Stixx’s Philip Ridley
What a treat to pay my first visit to London's newest venue - The Bunker, carved out of a carpark beneath the Menier Chocolate Factory - to host this post-show Q&A for Tonight with Donny Stixx.
Photos and podcast: Nearly 300 years on, why does The Beggar’s Opera still resonate?
There's something in the water with The Beggar's Opera at the moment. Lazarus Theatre's new, modern-dress, 80-minute version at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre is the third major London presentation of the story of womanising highwayman Macheath this year.
Photos and podcast: Sharing joy with debut playwright Theresa Ikoko and her Girls
What an astonishing way to make your playwriting debut. Theresa Ikoko's first full-length play Girls was a Verity Bargate finalist and winner of both the Alfred Fagon Award and the George Devine Award.
Photos and podcast: Brush up your Berkoff with Nigel Harman and co
Two rarely seen short plays by Steven Berkoff are professionally performed together for the first time in this much-anticipated West End premiere: Lunch and, written 20 years later, its sequel The Bow of Ulysses.
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.
