Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The award has been won by Ahlam and Amy Trigg, who beat more than 1,000 other entries, in initiative to dismantle stereotypes about women’s writing
The inaugural Women’s Prize for Playwr…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36PMFriday, November 27, 2020
Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker
As the C…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:48PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Available onlineAlan Ayckbourn plays a man looking for answers about the death of his musical prodigy daughter in an audio version of his 1994 work that keeps us guessing till the end
When A…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
Available onlineIn an intimate and often traumatic one-woman performance, Pepa Duarte explores her hostile relationship with cravings, calorie-counting and identity, as a bean soup bubbles o…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, November 20, 2020
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to,…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, November 19, 2020
Available onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus’s interactive horror is scary – but teaming up with strangers is fun
We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a “terrif…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, November 18, 2020
Available online Staffordshire’s Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp
A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists hi…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:18PMMonday, November 16, 2020
Available onlineThe Queen’s theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county’s much maligned image with four monologues that fizz
When Mike Leigh situated his social …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, November 12, 2020
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears
‘What’s your favourite scary movie?…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:54PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Mike Bartlett’s monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes’s over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy
A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, November 9, 2020
Available onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology
This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, November 6, 2020
Available onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France
All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland’s fanta…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Olivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue – a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ Death of England – with deftly controlled energy
‘There have been other mome…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:32AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
Crucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain
With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane’s one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair
Crave was the one-a…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:06PMMonday, November 2, 2020
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe’s novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit
Jonathan Coe’s satirical novel about the venality of the …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, November 1, 2020
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality
‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mank…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, October 30, 2020
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell’s play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever
This 40…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:36AMThursday, October 29, 2020
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn’t immune to the storms battering theatre
Sharon D Clarke w…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, October 25, 2020
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator’s adventurous career and her final terrible moments
Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epit…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMNottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham’s Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone
The playwright James G…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, October 23, 2020
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle
Last year, in the “before”, The Great Gat…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, October 20, 2020
This funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves – and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying
Heidi Schreck tells us she…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:36AMFriday, October 2, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
The first monologue in this doubl…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, September 30, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonThere are fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads
The latest two live instalments of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, September 25, 2020
Tristan Bates theatre, London, and online In her lockdown romance, playwright Gemma Lawrence explores desire, isolation and homophobia
A remote love story seems so fitting for our times. Th…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06PMThursday, September 24, 2020
New general secretary Paul Fleming says that amid this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, the union received spike in reported cases of racist behaviour
Equity, the UK trade union for c…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, September 21, 2020
The explosion of digital productions of all sizes has shown great creativity and made hit shows more accessible – but is it all financially sustainable?
In the past six months, theatre has…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, September 20, 2020
Soho theatre, LondonThis larky Zoom-era adaptation of the director’s film about white-collar leadership is full of improv-style gusto
In 2006, a year after the US launched a version of Ric…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, September 16, 2020
As she publishes a moving memoir, the Corrie, Dinnerladies and West End star talks about her three-decade battle with typecasting – and almost dying of Covid-19
Shobna Gulati is speaking …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:24AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Greenwich + Docklands international festival A basketball court becomes a stage to deliver short plays of protest over racial injustice, completing a fine festival embedded in its London com…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:42AM 
