| Description | Series of articles about theatre. Topics include Peter Hall and the opening of the Rose Theatre, the restoration of funding for the Battersea Arts Centre, criticism of plannned changes to the British Council, renovations to the Bristol Old Vic, interview with Neil LaBute, the reopening of the Shunt Vaults, interviews with Kevin Spacey on his role as artistic director of the Old Vic and on performing in Speed The Plough and his view that BBC talent shows promote West End musicals at the expense of other theatre, with Jatinder Verma and the UK's first Asian theatre group Tara Arts, with Edward Bond, with David Mamet, plans to offer teenagers at least five hours of culture a week, interview with David Suchet, the centenary of the Society of London Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland's first two years, interview with Dominic Dromgoole, interviews with Tom Stoppard, Michael Grandage, Peter Gill, plans for a triple -theatre at County Hall, comparisons of the West End and Broadway, EU legislation making it a criminal offence to use misleading or selected out-of-context quotes from reviews in publicity material, Nica Burns introduction of audience questionnaires on the artistic merit of productions, discusion of the use of known at the expense of talented but unknown actors, the purchse of agency PFD by Andrew Neil, with Michael Eldridge, the election of Graham Hamilton as president of Equity, |