UK Regional Interviews

BWW caught up with Matt Chiorini on bringing Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets! to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Ally Ibach on bringing Midnight Cowboy Radio to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ...

BWW caught up with Tom Hearn about bringing How Fabulous is That?! to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Kirby Thompson & Orla Graham about bringing Float to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ...

BWW caught up with Joel Baxendale about bringing Werewolf to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Remi Jacques, Artistic Director and founder of Les Foutoukours, about bringing Nova to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ...

BWW caught up with Lean Cole about bringing Super Second Rate to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Matt Hale about bringing Top Fun! 80s Spectacular - Remix to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Martia Dimmer about bringing Any Day Now to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. ...

BWW caught up with Sarah Hester Ross about bringing Sarah Hester Ross is What? to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Nerine Skinner on bringing The Exorcism of Liz Truss to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe...

BWW caught up with Alexa Elmy on bringing Alexa, Play to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with Eoin Ryan about bringing Trawled - When Adventure Becomes Survival to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

Originally opening at Liverpool’s Royal Court in 2023, before transferring to The National Theatre in 2024, Boys from the Blackstuff is currently running at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End before embarking on a UK tour in 2025....

BWW caught up with Sam See about bringing And I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

BWW caught up with David Aldred about bringing Twelfth Night Fever to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

Actor and musician Alex Sawyer is currently playing the lead role in the West End production of Hamilton at London's Victoria Palace Theatre - and Broadway World sat down with the Alexander Hamilton actor to find out more about the show....

Few directors are as comfortable helming a sparkly winter panto as they are a psychologically gruelling Sarah Kane play. But few directors have credits as varied as Tinuke Craig. A former Bayliss Associate at The Old Vic, she is now making her RSC directorial debut with Richard Sheridan’s The School...

Ahead of Sisters of Mersey opening at Liverpool’s Royal Court on July 5, Broadway World visited the rehearsal rooms and sat down with writer Jonathan Harvey and director Stephen Fletcher to find out more....

FANNY, written by Calum Finlay and directed by Katie-Ann McDonough, is about to open at the Watermill Theatre in West Berkshire. The show tells the story of Fanny Mendelssohn, the real-life older sister of Felix Mendelssohn, and places her in a “what if” situation involving an intercepted letter and...

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World, a live tour of the television series of the same name, has just finished touring the United Kingdom over the past few weeks. Recently, we had the chance to talk with Scarlet Envy, one of the drag queens on the tour....

Directed by Jimmy Fairhurst and starring Les Dennis as Malvolio, Not Too Tame return to the Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer, with an exciting new production of Twelfth Night....

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Paul Hart and Claire Murray, the joint CEOs of the theatre. We discussed what it is like working for a regional theatre, the process of producing new work and how the Arts Council England funding cut will affect the future of The Watermill and the local comm...

Can a fictional detective solve a real-life murder case? Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend answers this question by having the world-famous detective attempt to solve the infamous Jack the Ripper case. Recently, we had the chance to talk to Adam Meggido, the director of this production, abou...

BroadwayWorld was invited to a celebration of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Peacock Theatre. We were treated to a Q&A with Dan Gillespie Sells (Music), Ivano Turco (Jamie New), Giovanna Fletcher (Miss Hedge) and Talia Palamathanan (Pritti Pasha), hosted by Jonathan Butterell (Director). Her...

BroadwayWorld caught up with comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean to chat about their upcoming tour and celebrating ten years of the All Killa No Filla podcast....

Recently, we had the chance to chat with Rebecca Banatvala, who plays Catherine in Northanger Abbey. We discussed what it is like taking on a queer interpretation of the classic Austen work, some highlights from rehearsals and performances and even her own favourite Gothic tale!...

Something About George pays tribute to George Harrison and celebrates his life, incredible solo material and classics from The Beatles, along with hits from his time in supergroup The Travelling Wilburys....

BroadwayWorld recently attended a rehearsal of Mamma Mia! at the Novello Theatre in the West End. The cast and crew are preparing for Stevie Doc and Tobias Turley, the winners of the Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream televised competition, to join the show as Sophie and Sky....

The holidays are here, which can only mean one thing - Christmas specials are arriving! Bad Education: A Christmas Carol, debuted this week on BBC Three. BroadwayWorld had the opportunity to speak with Felix Hagan, co-writer of the multi-award winning musical Operation Mincemeat, who wrote original ...

BroadwayWorld sat down with Shawna Hamic, who is taking on the role of Ursula in Unfortunate. We discussed what made her want to be a part of the show, what she hopes audiences take away from Unfortunate and who is her favourite Disney villain! ...

BroadwayWorld spoke to Pentabus Artistic Director Elle While about new show Driftwood, collaborating with ThickSkin, one of the most exciting parts of the scriptwriting process and the importance of rural theatre....

On 4 October, five protesters stormed the stage during performance of Les Misérables in London. JUST STOP OIL is a nonviolent civil resistance group demanding the UK Government stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects. ...

After a sold-out run in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company is bringing Hamnet to the West End. Recently, we sat down with Madeleine Mantock, who plays Agnes Hathaway in Hamnet. We discussed the role Agnes plays within the show, how Mantock connects with the themes of the story, and e...

Following the initial run in Chester last year, Joanna Woodward is soon set to lead the opening of The Time Traveller's Wife in the West End this October. She talks to us about the value of creating from the ground up, the universality of this story, and the joy of a complex female character....

Course Director Meredith Braun and Director in Residence Steven Dexter discuss the new Post Graduate MA Musical Theatre degree at the University of Chichester with BA Hons Musical Theatre (Music) graduate Eddie Cole-Porcher....

Back in 2011 playwright Tanika Gupta staged her adaptation of Great Expectations. 12 years later she has re-worked the script, shifted the time frame and collaborated with the Artistic Director of Tamasha Pooja Ghai. Pooja played Mrs Gargery in the original, and who is now directing this new version...

Currently starring in the premiere of new musical In Dreams at Leeds Playhouse as Ramsey, Oliver Tompsett talks new roles, learning for a job, and the audience reaction to this story of a band reunited set to the music of Roy Orbison....

Actor Nicole-Lily Baisden is playing the role of Peggy Sawyer; fresh off the bus from small-town America, she arrives in New York City dreaming of her name in lights. Nicole-Lily spoke to BroadwayWorld about the necessary stamina she needs for this show within the show and what playing Peggy has tau...

My journey with The Flying Dutchman has been almost as long as his. I was enthralled by the story as a child – a sailor who lost a bet with the Devil! – and then, twenty-five years ago, wrote a 10,000 line epic poem called Time’s Fool, where I substituted an endless ghost train for the cursed ship....