As panto season gets into full swing, I’m sitting here, fingers crossed and touching wood - my middle name is Versatile - hoping beyond hope that this year I will be able to get to the Backstage Bar at the Rialto for The West End's number one adults-only pantomime Snow White and The Seven Merry Men. In merry anticipation, I caught up with drag queen Ava Cardo and Jamie Redman who are playing Snow White and Prince Donkey Dick respectively. Before moving on to the show, I asked the two to tell me … [Read more...]
London Theatre Interviews with Cast and Creatives
Here is our collection of interviews with cast and creatives from the world of theatre. Browse our website for London Theatre Tickets for London West End Theatres. Book tickets for shows, musicals, plays, drama, opera, dance, comedy & more!
Interview with Kathy Rucker and Scott Le Crass
Kathy Rucker’s play Darling has recently had its world premiere at Islington’s Hope Theatre, and I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to have a chat with her and the play’s director Scott Le Crass. I started by asking them to tell me a little about the play. KR: Darling’s a play about a very charming con artist who has literary ambitions, and he meets a woman who becomes his accomplice and then we meet some of his victims who, in the end, surprise all of them. TE: Where did the … [Read more...]
Q&A with Richard Katz – Tatte in ‘Love and Other Acts of Violence’
A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around them, the couple’s struggle to survive erupts into violence. Cordelia Lynn’s new play is a subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history. Cast: Richard Katz (Tatte), Tom Mothersdale (Him/Man), Abigail Weinstock (Her/Baba), and Finley Glasgow and Daniel Lawson share the role of Brother 1, and Alexander Fitzgerald and Charlie Tumbridge … [Read more...]
Interview with Richard Frame from the cast of Frozen the Musical
Prepare to fall in love with Disney’s FROZEN all over again, as a brand-new theatrical experience arrives in London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane this August. Incredible special effects, stunning costumes and jaw-dropping scenery bring Elsa and Anna’s journey to life in a whole new way. And with all the beloved songs from the movie – as well as a few surprises from the writers behind Let it Go – you’ll be transported to Arendelle from the moment the curtain rises. FROZEN is brought to the … [Read more...]
Interview with Luke Hallgarten, artistic director of the Revel Puck Circus
We’re talking to Luke Hallgarten, artistic director of the Revel Puck Circus and the director of their latest show, the Wing Scuffle Spectacular. Ben: Tell me about the company. Luke: The Revel Puck Circus formed a few years ago. We have a great passion for tented, outdoor touring and are trying to reposition circus’s public image more into 21st Century culture. The public’s perception is more of a classical circus. They often think of animals and red-nosed clowns and ringmaster’s with … [Read more...]