Theatre Interviews with Top West End Stars

Katy Lipson: 'If I'm raising millions in the next few years, I'll use it to champion new musicals'

Having written about a fair few season announcements at theatres across London over the past few years, it's almost expected that a programme full of 'new work' and 'world premieres' will be stuffed with plays - musicals often hardly get a look in. However, one producer has made it somewhat of a mission to bring as many new, fresh musicals to stages as humanly possible.Katy Lipson and her company Aria Entertainment have been a recent success story over the last few years, mounting fringe...

Tracy-Ann Oberman: ‘With Pinter, you don’t always need to understand why you’re saying something’

The West End has been lately upping its game when it comes to serious theatre, with recent hits like The Jungle (the astonishing immersive production that took audiences into the heart of a Calais refugee camp) and The Inheritance (offering an intimate and shattering account of gay experience in the wake of the legacy of HIV/AIDS and the generation that was lost to it).But one of the more extraordinarily ambitious seasons of late has been to honour the late, great playwright Harold Pinter, at...

Dean Chisnall interview - 'Now I'm in Les Miserables, I feel like I've hit the jackpot'

This summer's Les Miserables cast change brings Dean Chisnall back to the West End stage, having spent time last year working at fringe theatres for the first time in his career.Chisnall has previously played the title role in Shrek at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and had parts in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White at the Palace Theatre, and Love Never Dies at the Adelphi. He returns to the West End this summer as Jean Valjean, but this comes after his first foray into the fringe, where he...

Tyrone Huntley interview - 'This is far beyond what I ever thought would happen in my career'

Tyrone Huntley is in Jesus Christ Superstar.

Clare Halse interview - 'I had to strip to my undies in front of the Duchess of Cambridge'

42nd Street took the West End by storm when it moved into the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with a flurry of four and five-star reviews. Much of the praise was for Clare Halse, who plays Peggy Sawyer, a dance virtuoso waiting to be discovered,is forced to step in and save Julian Marsh's Broadway show Pretty Lady. We chatted to Halse about her previous experiences as an understudy opposite Imelda Staunton, how she is helping to inspire a generation of young dancers, and performing for Royalty on the...

In Conversation with playwright Duncan Macmillan

Playwright Duncan Macmillan, one of Britain's brightest writers, openly admits that he had previously lost faith in himself and had given up writing. Facing the realities of paying his rent, starting a family and simply getting from A to B, it's a story that he shares with many creatives of his generation who find themselves locked out of succeeding primarily due to financial and practical reasons, as the industry tightens and getting your 'big break' seems harder and harder. Speaking to him...