Directors, performers and theatre staff discuss their work
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Zoe Waites talks about playing Juliet in the RSC production of Romeo and Juliet
Jack is Rudyard Kipling's son, David Haig discusses Kipling's role in Jack's death
Polly Teale's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre
Ian McKellen talks about playing Dr Tomas Stockmann in the play by Henrik Ibsen
Michael Williams plays John Aubrey, a diarist/gossip living in the 17th Century
John Shea talks about the piano at rehearsals of an opera
A discussion of the play Looking for Mr Big
The play Mosquitoes recalls the story of Ronald Ross who discovered malaria transmission
South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his play People are Living There
Discussion of the play of the novel by RK Narayan - The Painter of Signs
Director Stephen Unwin talks about Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull
Playwright Samuel Adamson gives some background on his play Grace Note
"She's a free-thinking spirit" Kate Duchêne on playing Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna
Tanika Gupta describes the actions of Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary Dinesh Gupta, as outlined in her book, Voices On The Wind.
Director Anthony Clark discusses Anton Chekhov's plays Uncle Vanya and The Wood Demon
Mezzo soprano Sally Burgess talks about opera, concerts and jazz caberet
Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil for becoming the world's greatest baseball player
Siân Phillips talks about playing Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems's play Marlene
Ian Talbot on producing A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare at the Open Air Theatre
The legend of The Monkey King set in 1950s Hong Kong
Gary Wilmot talks about the musical by Neil Simon, David Zippel and by Marvin Hamlisch
David Hitchinson talks about his four part adaptation of Anna Karenina. How did he do it?
Russell Dixon who is starring in the Alan Ayckbourn play Way Upstream talks about the play
The scriptwriter Alby James discusses a story about a young Muslim Somali girl
Actress Judi Dench discusses her latest role in Peter Tinniswood's A Very Rare Bird Indeed
Actors talking about the stage show production of George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm
Ad de Bont talks about his play Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia about the refugees of war
Discussion of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams with Laura Taylor
The Broadway musical written by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin and Moss Hart
The non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes of dramatist Caryl Churchill