Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio March 19 - 25
19/03/2012
Compiled by Poly Gianniba
Monday March 19
7pm on Sky Arts2: "In Love with Wilde", Stephen Fry, Caroline Quentin, Paterson Joseph, Russell Tovey and Eddie Marsan perform their favourite Oscar Wilde roles.
7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: Front Row, Mark Lawson interviews Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton about their production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
Tuesday March 20
1:15pm on BBC Radio Scotland: The Culture Cafe interviews Dominic Hill, the artistic director at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
Wednesday March 21
9am on BBC Radio 4: On Midweek, Libby Purves interviews Barrie Rutter, artistic director of the Northern Broadsides theatre company.
Thursday March 22
7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: On Front Row, a review of the Complicite staging of Bulgakov's renowned novel The Master and Margarita.
Friday March 23
10pm on BBC Radio 2: BBC Radio 2 Arts Show, Actress Gwen Taylor talks about starring in The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo in a new stage adaption by Daniel Buckroyd, at the Curve Theatre Leicester.
Saturday March 24
11:40pm on BBC2: and now for something completely different, a film centred around the staging of a play:
Synecdoche, New York
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Sadie Goldstein, Tom Noonan, Peter Friedman, Charles Techman
Story: Theatre director Caden Cotard's artistic life is boosted with a prestigious grant, but his marriage abruptly ends and a mystery malady starts taking its toll. Throwing himself into a theatrical attempt to portray stark reality, Caden's relationships and existence become the subject of, and contaminated by, his epic work.