Preview Mode Links will not work in preview mode

Please search and enjoy our wide range of interviews with professional theatre makers and experts including writers, directors, actors, producers and critics.

Return to main BTG site

  1. All Episodes
  2. 2019
  3. 04

Braham Murray: how the Royal Exchange Theatre was born in Manchester

Apr 26, 2019

Braham Murray OBE arrived in Manchester in the 1960s as the youngest artistic director in the country, of the travelling Century Theatre, remaining in the city to co-found the 69 Theatre Company which went on to become the Royal Exchange Theatre, still one of the UK’s leading regional theatres.

Murray died in 2018 at...

Read More

MIF 2019: John McGrath, Leo Warner and Phelim McDermott

Apr 5, 2019

The 2019 Manchester International Festival will take place at various venues around the city in July. An edited version of the main presentation at the MIF launch on 7 March can be heard in a previous British Theatre Guide podcast episode, but we also spoke directly to some of the artists involved.

We asked MIF Artistic...

Read More