Peter Nichols discusses Privates on Parade
INTERVIEW: PETER NICHOLS The veteran playwright, now 81, chats to Dominic Cavendish about the autobiographical basis for Privates on Parade, revived by Ian Brown at West Yorkshire Playhouse and...
View ArticleSamuel West talks about TS Eliot
INTERVIEW: SAMUEL WEST Heather Neill talks to the actor and director about his career, his passion for verse drama and his approach to playing the part of Harry in The Family Reunion, the centrepiece...
View ArticleJohn Osborne: the lost plays rediscovered
OSBORNE SPECIAL Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, tells Aleks Sierz about his discovery of two 1950s plays by John Osborne, both of which were written in...
View ArticleRoger Rees on starring in Waiting for Godot
INTERVIEW: ROGER REES The Welsh actor, who has made his return to the London stage as Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Haymarket) opposite Ian McKellen's Estragon, talks about the role,...
View ArticleNF Simpson special: rare interview with the playwright
INTERVIEW: NF SIMPSON Extracts from a conversation with Dominic Cavendish at Simpson's home in Cornwall in which the 91-year-old 'absurdist' playwright ranges across his life and various topics - his...
View ArticleNF Simpson special: director Simon Usher
INTERVIEW: SIMON USHER The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his production of If So, Then Yes (Jermyn Street Theatre), his first new play for decades, and about the playwright's other work, such as...
View ArticleNoel Coward at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
INTERVIEW: STEPHEN UNWIN The artistic director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston talks to Aleks Sierz about his well-received revival of Noel Coward's 1925 play, Hay Fever, and about his experience of...
View ArticleArnold Wesker reads two letters from Terence Rattigan
WESKER EXCLUSIVE Sir Arnold Wesker reads private letters from Terence Rattigan. Currently enjoying the successful revival of his play Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court, Arnold Wesker reads...
View ArticleActor Danny Webb on Wesker hit revival
INTERVIEW: DANNY WEBB The actor discusses Dominic Cooke's well-received revival of Arnold Wesker's seminal 1958 play, Chicken Soup with Barley (the first part of the Wesker Trilogy about a politically...
View ArticlePlaywright Amanda Whittington investigates the life of 1950s hostess Ruth Ellis
INTERVIEW: AMANDA WHITTINGTON The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about her fascination with the case of Ruth Ellis, who in 1955 became the last woman to be hanged in Britain after murdering her lover,...
View ArticleBroadway star Seth Numrich plays opposite Kim Cattrall at the Old Vic
INTERVIEW: SETH NUMRICH The Broadway star talks to Philip Fisher about his role in Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic), in which he plays Chance Wayne opposite Kim Cattrall's Alexandra...
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