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Paul Allen

Paul Allen is a broadcaster and writer. He has presented BBC Radio 3's Night Waves since 1998, and as a writer adapted Mark Herman's Brassed Off for the stage. He has also set a string of radio and theatre plays in Sheffield, where he lives, is the biographer of Alan Ayckbourn and teaches at the universities of Sheffield and Warwick. He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare's Falstaff

April 2021

  • Theatrical Play 'zigger Zagger'- National Youth Theatre Rehearsals.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/REX/Shutterstock (1698723a) Theatrical Play 'zigger Zagger'- National Youth Theatre Rehearsals. Theatrical Play 'zigger Zagger'- National Youth Theatre Rehearsals.

    Peter Terson obituary

    Playwright whose work, including Zigger Zagger, explored the poverty of choices faced by working-class men

May 2020

  • Mike Bower walking the Pennine Way to mark his 60th birthday

    Other lives
    Mike Bower obituary

    Other lives: Former leader of Sheffield city council who in the 1990s drove the Heart of the City project

November 2019

  • Jean Fergussonin 2001.

    Letters: Jean Fergusson obituary

    Paul Allen writes: Jean, still in her 20s, made an unforgettable impression on me as the middle-aged Hester Collyer in Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea

August 2018

  • Tom Courtenay and Judi Bowker in Sheridan’s The Rivals, 1976, the first play directed at the Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester, by Braham Murray.

    Braham Murray obituary

    Longtime artistic director of the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester

April 2018

  • Pushpin on map

    For social care to thrive it needs a community-centred revolution

    Paul Allen
    By putting families, friends and neighbours at the heart of any support plan, the sector can survive these tough times

February 2018

  • Mick Hughes Obituary From: Clare Fox clareimfox@gmail.com

    Other lives
    Mick Hughes obituary

    Other lives: Lighting designer who worked with Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter

October 2016

  • Sheffield Crucible Theatre Under Construction Artistic Director Colin George Looks on 30 July 1971

    Colin George obituary

    Actor and theatrical visionary who was the founding artistic director of the Crucible in Sheffield, which opened in 1971 with a radical ‘thrust stage’

June 2015

  • Rex Doyle in Joe Orton's play The Erpingham Camp, directed by David Leland.

    Other lives
    Rex Doyle obituary

    Other lives: Actor, writer, director and teacher who founded the Sheffield Youth theatre

August 2014

  • Christopher Naylor, electrician with Sheffield Theatres, who has died aged 46

    Other lives
    Christopher Naylor obituary

    Other lives: Electrician with Sheffield Theatres whose presence lit up the backstage environment

March 2012

  • Other lives
    Letter: Tony Cliff ushered many of us into radio

    Paul Allen writes: Before Tony Cliff became a radio drama producer, he was a leader writer and theatre critic

July 2010

  • banfield

    Other lives
    Tony Banfield obituary

    Other lives: Tony Banfield, who has died of cancer aged 64, was an immensely gifted publicist

April 2010

  • Dave Sheasby

    Dave Sheasby obituary

    Radio producer and writer of witty plays and adaptations

October 2009

  • oldham coliseum

    Theatre blog
    Local heroes: the theatre companies who deserve our support

    Paul Allen: Now is not the time to get sniffy about the struggles of local theatre companies – they are the artistic epicentres of their communities

September 2009

  • The Pitmen Painters at Cottesloe, National Theatre

    Theatre blog
    Northern lights: How theatre undermined the coal industry

  • Actor and director Richard Wilson

    Theatre blog
    Northern lights: Curtain up for Richard Wilson and Victoria Wood

August 2009

  • Contact Theatre's Something In The Air at the Manchester international festival

    Northern lights
    Northern lights: Young people take centre-stage

  • Abi Titmuss performs in Two-Way Mirror at the Courtyard theatre at the Theatre Museum in 2006

    Theatre blog
    Northern lights: Abi Titmuss tackles John Godber play in Hull

July 2009

  • midsummer night's dream

    Theatre blog
    Shakespeare? Oh no it's not!

    Paul Allen: Picnics, families and some absolutely splendid backdrops - the British obsession with open-air Shakespeare is little more than a summer pantomime

June 2009

  • Firefighters in Yorkshire search homes in a flooded village

    Theatre blog
    Northern lights: Facing facts in verbatim theatre

  • Two youths wade through flood water in Market Weighton near Hull in June 2007

    Memories flood back in Hull Truck's Every Time It Rains

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