Theatre Interviews – West End Creators

The playwright talks to Dominic Maxwell about the life experiences that fed into his breakthrough production

The Belgian director and purveyor of raw emotion discusses his staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’, starring James Norton

As she stages a new production of The Dead City, Korngold’s wild opera banned by the Nazis, English National Opera’s artistic director Annilese Miskimmon talks about the company’s strong present and uncertain future

The writer of the haunting hit play, which has starred Lily Allen and now Cheryl, is taking his podcast Uncanny on tour, he tells Dominic Maxwell

The nation’s nicest TV show has been turned into an all-singing, all-dancing musical about star bakers and soggy bottoms. Isobel Lewis meets the cast and creatives bringing the tent to the stage

The League of Gentlemen star and his actor husband on dating at the dawn of the internet and coming out to their parents

Mark Gatiss is directing a new Abba-inspired play, written by his husband Ian Hallard. They talk about why love for the supergroup endures

Romeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in Cardiff

Director and writer Simon Stone tells Fergus Morgan how the traumatic death of his father in childhood – and his resulting upbringing surrounded by women – influences his work, why he thinks Greek tragedies are like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and why Janet McTeer is his dream actor for the production of Phaedra he is currently directing at London’s National Theatre 

Creator Kate Prince and star Beverley Knight on how their new Sylvia Pankhurst musical will resonate in the age of Brexit

The innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer

Director Simon McBurney and actor Kathryn Hunter have adapted Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel

As Bake Off the musical arrives in the West End, its creators on how they cooked up an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza from Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith’s reality TV show.