Actor Cherrelle Skeete wept with joy when she read Temi Wilkey’s debut play, which explores queerness and homophobia in the black community When Cherrelle Skeete read The High Table, she w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMAlbert Square’s bad boy was told leaving would end his career. But he has no regrets. He relives his journey from Bugsy Malone to existential Cormac McCarthy play Gary Beadle fell in love …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMThe last 10 years have seen a boom for black British playwrights, actors, artistic directors and others in the industry. What has changed on and off stage – and what’s next? I left drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMJackie Sibblies Drury thinks her acclaimed play, and the stereotypes it presents, will soon go out of date. As it comes to the Young Vic, she and director Nadia Latif explain why Playwright …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMThe fast-rising director talks about staging Maxim Gorky’s Vassa with a last-minute lead, her passion for musicals and the joy of brain-digging in rehearsals When I meet the director Tinuk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMThe writer and director of We Anchor in Hope sink a few pints and discuss memory, community and what unites pubs with the theatre In the three years since an underground car park in London, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThe in-demand actor, writer and director talks about staging The Last King of Scotland, representing inner-city London and what he learned from Millwall supporters When the actor, writer an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSoon to star in the Game of Thrones prequel, the Olivier-winning actor presents Anguis at the Edinburgh fringe ‘The last thing I did in any kind of creative-writing capacity would have bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMThe actor celebrates all big events in his life by wrapping his arms round a sturdy trunk. With the help of director Kwame Kwei-Armah, he has turned his obsession into a show Idris Elba has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMJessie Cave’s intimate standup, a beatbox Frankenstein and a twist on the star-crossed lovers are among the Edinburgh shows we’ve previously reviewed. Here’s what we said … Pleasance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMThe director takes about hearing The Glass Menagerie differently – and recalls the day he realised he had to do more than act His career has spanned more than three decades, but Femi Elufo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThe playwright captured an entire century of black American experience. His widow Constanza Romero explains how she shares his message, as gritty play King Hedley II returns to the stage ‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMGina Moffatt’s remarkable story inspired Emma Dennis-Edwards to write Funeral Flowers, a hit at last year’s Edinburgh fringe. Now, the story has come full circle back to north London Thr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMIn his dance-theatre solo about a young working-class man, Lanre Malaolu draws on his own experiences with depression A couple of years ago, the actor and choreographer Lanre Malaolu was cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AMWhen someone threw a burger at Travis Alabanza, the trans performer turned it into a hit show. Next goal? Playing Juliet Trans people are said to be “obsessed with pronouns”, Travis Alab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMCan you do jokes about terminal illness and mourning? The team behind a ‘big, soppy hug of a show’ think soIt’s not uncommon in theatre to see an actor dying on stage. But how often do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMFuelled by passion and outrage, the playwright and director is shaking up theatre with works about Windrush to an all-women-of-colour Richard II – and now she’s taking over the Bush in L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMSmash hits by black British playwrights were few and far between. Now Arinzé Kene and Natasha Gordon have work in the West End – and they’re changing the audiences too In 1957, Moon on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMTheatre 503, LondonAlison Carr’s tight three-hander, set in a seaside B&B, examines the relationship of a woman who has had a stroke and the daughter who cares for herSixty-something M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghThis feminist fantasy about women worldwide suddenly growing vastly bigger and stronger than men is uneven but eloquent about power dynamicsWhat would happen if ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghA beaver disturbs the budding rapport between two neighbours in Jean Ann Douglass’s surreal and wonderfully written dramaDora and Ronnie live side by side in R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNouveau Riché’s pared-back piece has insight, power and beautiful a cappella singingWhat makes theatre? Words, of course, but sometimes plays are wordless. St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghEndearing storytelling carries the day in Alissa Anne Jeun Yi’s show, combining standup, poetry and rapAlissa Anne Jeun Yi’s flyers call her Edinburgh fringe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMZoo Southside, EdinburghThrough song, dance and costume, Neema Bickersteth brings to life a wealth of characters with incredible energyThis Canadian import at the Edinburgh fringe from Volca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghCamilla Whitehill and Strictly Arts explore institutional racism and mental healthcare in a fast-paced hourIn Freeman’s first five minutes, six figures on sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghMiguel Hernando Torres Umba takes us into Colombia’s heart of darkness to reveal the human cost of the west’s most popular illegal drugOne-person shows that have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSeven years after its 2011 Atlanta premiere, Bring It On: The Musical uses the wonderfully ridiculous world of competitive cheerleading to tell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:19PMHome, Manchester Michael Ajao and Valentine Olukoga deliver humour and heartache in this cleverly adapted Chigozie Obioma story of Nigerian childhoodBased on Chigozie Obioma’s Man Booker p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMOnce a maker of corporate videos, now a Bafta-winning writer, Patel is about to stage two new plays – one a three-hour historical epic, the other about the changing nature of offensiveness…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMFollowing one couple over the course of a wine-fuelled night, The One is a punch of a play that places humour and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMNST City, SouthamptonGbolahan Obisesan’s retelling of a disaster in which more than 600 South Africans died is poignantly beautiful and sharply angryZamile Gantana takes a crate, sits in t…
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