Directors, performers and theatre staff discuss their work
World Service,·219 episodes
An unlikely subject for a musical - the bubonic plague
23 Jul 1998,·4 mins
"There's a real tension between men and women" Hugh Jackman on being Curly the cowboy
17 Jul 1998,·4 mins
Discussion of a play with themes of abuse and love and the fine line between the two
02 Jul 1998,·4 mins
Phyllida Lloyd on the tale of an Edinburgh schoolteacher who holds her pupils in thrall
26 Jun 1998,·4 mins
Review of JM Barrie, the Scottish dramatist, and his most famous work Peter Pan
19 Jun 1998,·4 mins
The role an editor plays in whittling down a play when it is considered too long
15 Jun 1998,·4 mins
Michael Frayn on his play about the meeting of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg
Descriptions from the audience of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
29 May 1998,·4 mins
The challenges faced by the Barbican Theatre in London
15 May 1998,·4 mins
The director discusses Markerell of Wod Shopping played by Alun Armstrong
30 Apr 1998,·4 mins
Yasmina Reza talks about her play about the breakup of a friendship
24 Apr 1998,·4 mins
"The newsreader is the closest thing we've got to a storyteller today"
10 Apr 1998,·4 mins
Amanda Harris talks about her role as Alma Rattenbury in Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre
03 Apr 1998,·4 mins
Stage dramatist Marcy Kahan talks about her thriller Salzburg in London
20 Mar 1998,·3 mins
Norman Rodway talks about his character Alfred, a foreign secretary
12 Mar 1998,·4 mins
Bernard Kops talks about the Holocaust poet Paul Celan and his own writing
05 Mar 1998,·4 mins
Ron Hutchinson on Mikhail Bulgakov's play
17 Feb 1998,·3 mins
Playwright and director Mehrdad Seyf talks about his play Death by Heroine
Actor Alun Armstrong discusses his character, an editor at the Chicago Examiner
29 Jan 1998,·4 mins
An International Radio Playwriting Competition winner talks about her work and characters
27 Jan 1998,·4 mins
Peter Llewellyn-Jones discusses his approach to signing plays for deaf audiences
20 Jan 1998,·4 mins
Two characters battle over the legacy of Che Guevara, 20 years after his death
01 Jan 1998,·4 mins
"He adores Mozart's music and realises his own mediocrity. And there lies the pain"
John Caird's stage adaptation of JM Barrie's Peter Pan
31 Dec 1997,·4 mins
Stephen Wyatt on his adaptation of The Speculator
18 Dec 1997,·4 mins
Joanne Pearce on being Rita Allmers in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf
Prince Charming is a guest on a chat show when the glass slipper is given to Cinderella
08 Dec 1997,·4 mins
"He can't be the Bond we had in the '60s... but he does like women enormously"
Director Simon McBurney discusses the play The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco
01 Dec 1997,·3 mins
Nick Philippou discusses Orpheus and its themes of loss, grief, mourning - and joy
27 Nov 1997,·4 mins
