 | Brief Encounter With ... Rich Hall 11 February 2013 Rich Hall has come a very long way indeed since he gave up his job as a hurricane namer for the United States Meteorological Service. Now, more than two decades later, he is hailed as one of our fin.... More... |
 | Kevin Trainor On ...Doctor Faustus 11 February 2013 Later this month the West York Playhouse stages Christopher Marlowe’s classic tale of power, morality and religion, Dr Faustus. The collaboration with Glasgow’s Citizen Theatre brings the 400-year-ol.... More... |
 | Brief Encounter With ... Colin Richmond 7 December 2012 The Wind in the Willows blows in to the West Yorkshire Playhouse this winter. Hannah Giles spoke with the production’s designer, Colin Richmond. With previews underway, what kind of feedba.... More... |
 | Berwick Kaler On ...Robin Hood and his Merry Mam 7 December 2012 Berwick Kaler is about to appear as dame in Robin Hood and his Merry Mam, his 34th pantomime at York Theatre Royal. Sue Casson caught up with him between rehearsals. How does the panto take shape?.... More... |
 | Brief Encounter With ... Oliver Birch 3 December 2012 West Yorkshire Playhouse’s children’s show in the Courtyard Theatre is, for the seventh successive year, the work of writer Mike Kenny and director Gail McIntyre. Sleeping Beauty is, as usual, an ada.... More... |
 | Brief Encounter with ... Forced Entertainment's Tim Etchells 30 October 2012 Tim Etchells co-founded experimental theatre group Forced Entertainment in 1984. Their latest production, The Coming Storm, is currently on a UK tour, returning to Battersea Arts Centre (where it prem.... More... |
 | The Guinea Pig Club (York) 12 October 2012 This splendid, thought-provoking new play by Susan Watkins, directed by York Theatre Royal’s Artistic Director, Damian Cruden, focuses on Archibald McIndoe, a pioneering plastic surgeon who worked to.... More... |
 | Damian Cruden On ...The Guinea Pig Club 3 October 2012 Fresh from directing The York Mystery Plays, Damien Cruden is now in his fifteenth year at York Theatre Royal. I caught up with him during rehearsals for a new play by Susan Watkins, The Guinea Pig C.... More... |
 | Jamie Parker On ...Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2 October 2012 Leeds is set to sizzle this October as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams’ 1955 Pulitzer prize winner, melts the stage at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Returning after previous successes here .... More... |
 | Brief Encounter With ... Wendy Harris 2 October 2012 When tutti frutti’s production of Rapunzel opens in York Theatre Royal’s Studio on September 27th, it will mark 21 years of performance by the Leeds-based company. As befits a company aiming its prod.... More... |