Bijan Sheibani (director) and Carl Mille...

The film and stage director talks talks to Mark Leipacher about his acclaimed production of King Lear, working with Simon Russell Beale and his career. This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2014. 

Film historian Christopher Frayling talks to Joel Finler about the early Hollywood film-makers - including the Eastern Europeans Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, and Louis B Mayer - as depicted in the National Theatre play, Travelling Light. This is an archive recording of a live Plat ... Show More

Marianne Elliott talks about directing the stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's award-winning novel. This is a live recording from a Platform event from August 2012. 

Paterson Joseph talks to Asif Khan, Ellen Thomas and Don Warrington about the identity of the black voice in British theatre. This is a recording of a live Platform event from October 2011. 

The director and stars of the off-Broadway play discuss its timely story and how rock music informs the production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Breach Theatre's Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens in conversation with Dr Hannah Simpson and Dr Sos Eltis 

Host Rebecca Milzoff chats with composer Alan Menken and cast members Nick Cordero, Bobby Conte Thornton and Ariana DeBose about turning Chazz Palminteri’s monologue into a musical. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Stephen Boxer (Gloucester), Sam Troughton (Edmund) and Tom Brooke (Edgar) talk to Mark Leipacher about the National Theatre's current production of King Lear directed by Sam Mendes. This is a recording of a live Platform event from February 2014. 

Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fall discuss their new production of Three Sisters. Chaired by Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Lecturer in English at City, University of London, Curator of the Legacies of Biafra touring exhibition and Co-Convenor of the Annual Igbo Conference.