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Peter HALL on film
The People's Archive, which collects the life stories of significant creators and achievers for posterity, has just made available...
Published on: 30-Apr-2007
New: focus on the FRINGE
This week, in listenNOW, free to stream or download: Mark Shenton hosts a discussion on the fringe (what is it and what is its fut...
Published on: 29-Apr-2007
Film ADAPTATIONS galore
As A Matter of Life and Death begins previewing at the National Theatre, and Elling opens at the Bush, Jasper Rees writes in the D...
Published on: 28-Apr-2007
Oliver FORD DAVIES on listenNOW
This week, in listenNOW, free to stream or download: veteran actor Oliver Ford Davies tells Heather Neill about his latest book, P...
Published on: 25-Apr-2007
BLAIR in the dock
As the Tricycle Theatre stages Called to Account, its newest tribunal play about a fictional trial of Tony Blair for illegally goi...
Published on: 24-Apr-2007
Hunt for the missing SHAKESPEARE
Ever heard of a play called Love's Labour's Won? Well, this play, along with one called Cardenio, head the list of plays by Willia...
Published on: 22-Apr-2007
TRUTH is the first casualty
As everyone knows, theatres advertise their wares by quoting from the critics' reviews of their shows. But, at those times when th...
Published on: 20-Apr-2007
Theatre as a public FORUM
In his latest blog, Michael Billington, theatre critic of the Guardian and theatreVOICE regular, discusses the upcoming Tricycle T...
Published on: 19-Apr-2007
Anthony NEILSON talks to theatreVOICE
This week, in listenNOW, free to stream or download: the controversial playwright Anthony Neilson, who tells theatreVOICE's Aleks ...
Published on: 18-Apr-2007
Resisting the lure of HOLLYWOOD
Actress Romola GARAI has put her film career on hold for a year in order to work at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she will ...
Published on: 16-Apr-2007
Radio 3 DRAMA highlights
The radio premiere of ORTON's ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE and IBSEN's THE WILD DUCK - these are just some of the highlights of the comi...
Published on: 15-Apr-2007
Peter BROOK is back
The legendary director is coming to London with his production of the South African political classic, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, hot on...
Published on: 14-Apr-2007
Bad theatre and the CRITICS
In his latest blog, theatreVOICE regular Mark Shenton looks at how critics such as the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer react to ...
Published on: 13-Apr-2007
Listen NOW to satirist Alistair Beaton
New in listenNOW to stream or download is an interview with the playwright ALISTAIR BEATON who talks to Aleks Sierz about King of ...
Published on: 12-Apr-2007
DIARY of the future
Playwright David GREIG shares his production diary about Futurology, his latest, and typically innovative, play about the subject ...
Published on: 11-Apr-2007
Once, twice, 3 times a theatre ADDICT
In her GUARDIAN blog, Maxie Szalwinska wonders what would make someone go and see the same show twice - a propos in her case of a ...
Published on: 09-Apr-2007
Four hundred - NOT OUT!
THE LATEST David Benedict Experience, which arrives this weekend in listenNOW, marks the 400th recording to hit the theatrevoice.c...
Published on: 07-Apr-2007
Can a white actor play OTHELLO?
In his Guardian blog, veteran critic Michael Billington argues that there should be more colour-blind casting in Shakespeare plays...
Published on: 06-Apr-2007
NEW to download/stream on listenNOW
An interview with LISA GOLDMAN: The new artistic director of London's Soho Theatre outlines her first season, which kicks off with...
Published on: 04-Apr-2007
Theatre funding in CRISIS
As of Sunday 1 April, the Arts Council grants scheme is being slashed by 35 per cent, reports Lyn Gardner in her Guardian blog, as...
Published on: 03-Apr-2007
Robert Fisk on SHAKESPEARE AND WAR
The Independent's internationally renowned Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk writes about the connections between Shakespeare'...
Published on: 01-Apr-2007