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An unlikely subject for a musical - the bubonic plague

"There's a real tension between men and women" Hugh Jackman on being Curly the cowboy

Discussion of a play with themes of abuse and love and the fine line between the two

Phyllida Lloyd on the tale of an Edinburgh schoolteacher who holds her pupils in thrall

Review of JM Barrie, the Scottish dramatist, and his most famous work Peter Pan

The role an editor plays in whittling down a play when it is considered too long

Michael Frayn on his play about the meeting of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg

Descriptions from the audience of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London

The challenges faced by the Barbican Theatre in London

The director discusses Markerell of Wod Shopping played by Alun Armstrong

Yasmina Reza talks about her play about the breakup of a friendship

"The newsreader is the closest thing we've got to a storyteller today"

Amanda Harris talks about her role as Alma Rattenbury in Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre

Stage dramatist Marcy Kahan talks about her thriller Salzburg in London

Norman Rodway talks about his character Alfred, a foreign secretary

Bernard Kops talks about the Holocaust poet Paul Celan and his own writing

Ron Hutchinson on Mikhail Bulgakov's play

Playwright and director Mehrdad Seyf talks about his play Death by Heroine

Actor Alun Armstrong discusses his character, an editor at the Chicago Examiner

An International Radio Playwriting Competition winner talks about her work and characters

Peter Llewellyn-Jones discusses his approach to signing plays for deaf audiences

Two characters battle over the legacy of Che Guevara, 20 years after his death

"He adores Mozart's music and realises his own mediocrity. And there lies the pain"

John Caird's stage adaptation of JM Barrie's Peter Pan

Stephen Wyatt on his adaptation of The Speculator

Joanne Pearce on being Rita Allmers in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf

Prince Charming is a guest on a chat show when the glass slipper is given to Cinderella

"He can't be the Bond we had in the '60s... but he does like women enormously"

Director Simon McBurney discusses the play The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco

Nick Philippou discusses Orpheus and its themes of loss, grief, mourning - and joy