Nick Smurthwaite

David Collison has worked alongside some of the biggest names in British theatre, from Peter Hall to Maggie Smith. As the sound designer publishes a new memoir, Nick Smurthwaite uncovers Collison’s greatest challenges and successes

Company manager Nick Bromley has compiled the most intriguing theatre ghost stories. He tells The Stage of some famously phantasmic apparitions and things that go bump in the footlights

Earlier this month it was announced that the archive of Theatre Royal Stratford East – home to Joan Littlewood’s celebrated Theatre Workshop – was moving to the British Library. Actors from the company tell Nick Smurthwaite about the collection

A celebrated actor in his day, Kenneth More worked on everything from Hollywood blockbusters with Jayne Mansfield to early Alan Bennett shows and BBC TV’s The Forsyte Saga. Nick Pourgourides tells Nick Smurthwaite about his new biography

Founded to standardise ballet teaching across the UK, the Royal Academy of Dance has an illustrious history. While events including a display at the V&A are on hold, it is pressing ahead with plans for its new era

As an exhibition exploring Noël Coward’s art and style and celebrating the centenary of his West End debut prepares to open, Nick Smurthwaite finds the playwright lives on through his legacy as, generations on, theatre lovers can still enjoy the fruits of his wit and imagination with ongoing revivals and reinventions of his best work

For more than 50 years, writer, actor and former Tory MP Gyles Brandreth has rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in theatre. Now he has compiled a book of ‘authenticated’ anecdotes from the likes of Donald Sinden and Judi Dench. He tells Nick Smurthwaite some of his best yarns and why he would reopen theatres now

In 1970, director Peter Brook boldly reimagined Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, doing away with a conventional pastoral setting in favour of a brightly lit white box. Nick Smurthwaite finds out how Brook took the show from concept to stage and created one of the most seminal productions of the 20th century

Launched last year, the Gillian Lynne and Peter Land Foundation continues the work of choreographer Gillian Lynne, whose widower Peter Land explains how the fund is helping students in need through the pandemic

Having staged Horrible Histories for 15 years, the Birmingham Stage Company artistic director and actor talks about the novel approach to reviving the hit shows in lockdown: drive-in performances