Wednesday 7 October 2009

Website review: Theatre Voice - audio for theatre buffs

On the new blog we will occasionally highlight websites that we think will be of interest to our readers. First off Theatre Voice - the UK's leading website for audio-based discussions on theatre.

Theatre Voice
In their own words; It was set up in 2003 to see if theatre could be talked about in a new way: allowing critics to be more expansive than the usual space constraints of the print media allowed; to enable actors, writers, directors and designers to be heard talking in detail and at length about their work; and to help members of the public interact more directly with theatre-makers and commentators.

Principal contributors 2008-09:
David Benedict is London theatre critic for Variety
Dominic Cavendish is deputy theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph
Jane Edwardes is theatre editor, Time Out London
Philip Fisher is a freelance journalist and critic
Heather Neill is a freelance journalist and critic
Mark Shenton is theatre critic for the Sunday Express; and blogs for the Stage
Aleks Sierz is theatre critic for Tribune, author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today and The Theatre of Martin Crimp
Charles Spencer is lead theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph

Among the 650 plus recordings, free to access via the search facility: Jimmy Akingbola, Mike Alfreds, Ola Animashawun, Howard Barker, Alistair Beaton, Jean Benedetti, Steven Berkoff, Alecky Blythe, Matthew Bourne, Michael Boyd, Peter Brook, Gregory Burke, Nica Burns, Ken Campbell, Romeo Castellucci, Alison Chitty, Paule Constable, Dominic Cooke, Martin Crimp, Tim Crouch, Bob Crowley, Oliver Ford Davies, April De Angelis, Janie Dee, Declan Donnellan, Dominic Dromgoole, David Edgar, David Eldridge, Marianne Elliott, Tim Etchells, Sir Richard Eyre, Vicky Featherstone, Emma Fielding, Deborah Findlay, Tim Fountain, Frantic Assembly, Michael Frayn, Sonia Friedman, Bill Gaskill, Pam Gems, Peter Gill, David Glass, John Godber, Lisa Goldman, Chris Goode, Henry Goodman, Rupert Goold, Michael Grandage, David Greig, Trevor Griffiths, Tanika Gupta, Lee Hall, Sir Peter Hall, David Harrower, Nick Hern, Dominic Hill, Patricia Hodge, Nicholas Hytner, Catherine Johnson, Paterson Joseph, Dennis Kelly, John Kani, Nicolas Kent, Ralph Koltai, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Neil LaBute, David Lan, Stewart Lee, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Tracy Letts, Doug Lucie, James Macdonald, Anna Madeley, Mustapha Matura, Simon McBurney, Owen McCafferty, Frank McGuinness, Nancy Meckler, Idina Menzel, Katie Mitchell, Vicky Mortimer, Chloe Moss, Tom Murphy, Anthony Neilson, Peter Nichols, Joe Penhall, Sian Phillips, Alan Plater, Mark Ravenhill, Emma Rice, Ian Rickson, Philip Ridley, Josie Rourke, Willy Russell, Simon Russell Beale, Mark Rylance, Peter Sellars, Thea Sharrock, Shunt, Roxana Silbert, Michael Simkins, Sir Donald Sinden, Max Stafford-Clark, Simon Stephens, David Storey, Jatinder Verma, Laura Wade, Che Walker, Enda Walsh, Harriet Walter, Sam Walters, Sacha Wares, Arnold Wesker, Samuel West, Roy Williams.

Visit Theatre Voice.

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