Susie McKenna – Hackney Citizen

Hackney Empire announces new artistic director in leadership shake-up

By Andrew Barnes | Friday 16 March 2018 at 15:49

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

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

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

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 21 July 2017 at 00:17

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

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

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

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 3 January 2017 at 16:00

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

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

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 December 2016 at 16:35

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

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

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 2 December 2016 at 12:38

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

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

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 30 November 2015 at 10:59

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

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

By East End Review | Monday 8 December 2014 at 10:32

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

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

By East End Review | Thursday 11 September 2014 at 10:00

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

Meet Susie McKenna – Hackney Empire’s pantotime queen

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 17 December 2012 at 20:35

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

Cinderella – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 7 December 2011 at 10:51

Cinderella is at the Hackney Empire until 8 January 2012

Jack and the Beanstalk

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 1 December 2010 at 13:57

Enjoy a show of organised festive chaos at the Hackney Empire