Susie McKenna - Hackney Citizen

Hackney Empire announces new artistic director in leadership shake-up

Longtime member of the creative team Yamin Choudury replaces panto pioneer Susie McKenna, who stepped down at the start of 2017

Author: Andrew Barnes

Shout from the rooftops: Hackney Empire Artistic Director Yamin Choudury. Photograph: Katherine Leedale

Hackney Empire’s work experience week sees teenage theatrical talents learn ‘how to be a producer’

Children aged 14 to 16 shadowed Empire staff and pitched hypothetical productions as part of the theatre’s drive to engage East London’s youth

Author: Hackney Citizen

Empire state of mind: the twelve prospective producers. Photographs: Andrew Barnes

Empire stars Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke get gongs in New Year’s Honours list

MBEs, or should that be MHEs, for panto stalwarts, and an OBE for Chaya Spitz of the Interlink Foundation in Stamford Hill

Author: Hackney Citizen

Empire stars Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke get gongs in New Year’s Honours list

‘I love it!’ Hackney Empire’s new pantomime villain Sharon D. Clarke on ‘taking the boos’

Hackney Empire pantomime regular Sharon D. Clarke has shed her fairy godmother skin to become the malevolent fairy Carabosse in this year’s show

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘I love it!’ Hackney Empire’s new pantomime villain Sharon D. Clarke on ‘taking the boos’

Sleeping Beauty, Hackney Empire, review: ‘I was still dancing as I left the theatre’

Classic story has been brought up to date by Susie McKenna’s stellar writing and direction

Author: Hackney Citizen

Sleeping Beauty, Hackney Empire, review: ‘I was still dancing as I left the theatre’

Jack and the Beanstalk, Hackney Empire, review: hilariously silly and mischievous

This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mother Goose review: a dame good show at Hackney Empire!

Clive Rowe and Sharon D. Clarke return to the cast for the Hackney Empire panto

Author: East End Review

Rudy's Rare Records is 'black High Fidelity', says show's creator

Lenny Henry stars in play of radio comedy in which three generations of a family try to stop developers from turning their record shop into a supermarket

Author: East End Review

Meet Susie McKenna – Hackney Empire’s pantotime queen

Dick Whittington and His Cat is this year’s pantomime at the Hackney Empire. The Hackney Citizen talks to the show’s writer and director, Susie McKenna

Author: Hackney Citizen

Cinderella – review

Cinderella is at the Hackney Empire until 8 January 2012

Author: Hackney Citizen

Jack and the Beanstalk

Enjoy a show of organised festive chaos at the Hackney Empire

Author: Hackney Citizen

Clive Rowe as Dame Trot in Jack and the Beanstalk