From timing the winners’ speeches to keeping the champagne flowing, Emma D’Souza makes sure the Olivier Awards run smoothly. Ahead of the first BBC broadcast of the ceremony in more than 20 years, the executive producer tells Liz Hoggard how she keeps theatre’s glitziest night of the year on track

After a garlanded and influential career, the renowned sound designer is retiring. He tells Liz Hoggard about what first drew him to sound design, why he’s stepping back and reflects on the highlights of his 40 years in the industry

Since joining the Yvonne Arnaud in 2019, director Joanna Read has done more than just bring the theatre back into use as a producing house. And there are more changes ahead, she tells Liz Hoggard, as she sets out her goals for the Guildford venue

Helming a large subsidised company gives English Touring Theatre’s artistic director and chief executive an advantage in today’s tough climate, but he refuses to play it safe. He tells us about ETT’s best season yet at the box office, the challenges of rising costs and the road ahead

The BBC’s head of arts and classical music, Suzy Klein, has a big job on her hands. She discusses acting as a bridge between audiences and programme makers, and how she hopes a new TV talent series can win over sceptical viewers

This venue’s storied history includes stints as a strip club and a comedy club. As it reopens as a theatre and cabaret space, its new operators, Underbelly’s Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, tell Liz Hoggard about the space, how they got here and where it is going

Designer Es Devlin – who has created sets for shows ranging from The Lehman Trilogy to Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour to the Super Bowl half-time show – details her career journey and the importance and future of design

Comedian, playwright and actor Mike Birbiglia talks about theatre being his first love, the lineage of live performance and breaking taboos ahead of his upcoming play at Wyndham’s Theatre, The Old Man and the Pool

The Olivier award-winning associate artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe talks to The Stage about his new staging of The Comedy of Errors, the art of comedy and his fears for regional theatre

Creative engineering group TAIT is the undercover mastermind behind many of theatre’s greatest experiences – from building @sohoplace’s auditorium to the flying car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Meet the team as they discuss TAIT’s legacy, mission and the future of technical theatre

As he prepares to announce his first season as artistic director of Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre, Tom Littler tells Liz Hoggard about leaving Jermyn Street and being put in a box as a director 

Counting Cameron Mackintosh, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bill Kenwright among his collaborators, Paul Taylor-Mills has become known for new musicals. The producer tells Liz Hoggard about selecting cult classics and why actors deserve to be paid more

Director Michael Fentiman talks about the cultural struggles of being working class in middle-class spaces and bringing the actor-musician style from his production of Amélie to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the West End

After huge success writing pop songs for artists including Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue and Maisie Peters, Miranda Cooper switched focus to musical theatre. She tells Liz Hoggard about her desire to disrupt musicals, being inspired by Six and belting out Les Mis in the garden shed

Cabaret is back and London’s Playhouse Theatre has been transformed into the Weimar-era nightclub, with an in-the-round auditorium and reimagined spaces. The creative team behind what was a mammoth task gives Liz Hoggard a taste of what’s on offer and an insight into the process of reshaping the venue