Sunday, February 8, 2026
Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis. In a rare interview, she talks about the shoc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31PMSunday, October 19, 2025
He first played Othello in 1997, when the role was still synonymous with white thespians 'blacking up'. Now, nearly three decades on, he, Chiwetel Ejiofor and other Black actors discuss how …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, August 28, 2025
The story of the state's targeting of 70s activists has been turned into a musical exploring a fascinating and relatively unknown period. It is a love letter to our elders, says its writer
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, February 20, 2020
If you're offended by the 'N word,' this UK premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's 2017 play should be approached with extreme caution. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMMonday, February 17, 2020
In 2014, former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, a move that not only banned same sex
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThursday, January 30, 2020
Janice Okoh's latest play tells the story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a black woman born a Yoruba princess in 19th-century Nigeria, who,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
The B-Sides series at the Bunker is a programme of work by emerging artists that runs alongside their flagship shows. The Girl
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMMonday, January 13, 2020
Athena Stevens' latest play is full of quiet fury. Stevens plays the title role in this piece, based on her own experiences,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMThursday, December 5, 2019
This year's Hackney Empire panto – written and directed by local favourite Susie McKenna – is served with a twist. The 14th
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMFriday, November 15, 2019
In West African mythology, Mami Wata is a water spirit that most commonly takes the form of half woman, half fish. She's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
Three youngsters, all alike in identity, on the asphalt of the school playground where they lay their scene. Joanne, Kehinde and Rugrat
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMFriday, October 18, 2019
To be a black woman in contemporary Britain is a lot. Our bodies are over-policed, exoticised and brutalised. Our minds are gaslighted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMFriday, September 27, 2019
This is a story about a place called Brent. It's a place of Turkish restaurants, African hairdressers and Jamaican takeaways. It's a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMThursday, September 26, 2019
Anansi the Spider is perhaps the most famous character in Afro-Caribbean folklore. He's loveable and wise, but he is also a mischief
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMMonday, September 9, 2019
The word 'chiaroscuro' has a number of meanings; one of which is the quality of being veiled, or partly in shadow. Jackie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThursday, September 5, 2019
August Wilson's American Century Cycle is a collection of 10 plays each covering a different decade of the black American experience from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The producer who launched the Black Ticket Project, an initiative providing free or discounted theatre tickets for young black people in London,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Black Women are the focus of the second of two double bills in Bunker Theatre's inaugural This Is Black Festival: black women
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMThursday, July 25, 2019
It's Chicago in the late 1930s and the area known as Black Metropolis has been ravaged by the Great Depression – though
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMFriday, July 19, 2019
Lad and Lass are on the run – from what, it's never quite clear. They're living in a smelly squat, fighting about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMTuesday, June 18, 2019
Errol Marshall wants to know himself. This overwhelming desire fuels a burning rage and consumes every fibre of his being. It's literally
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
If you don't know your American Civil Rights history, the idea that Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X were
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMThursday, June 6, 2019
The term "J'ouvert†comes from the French "jour ouvert†– literally, "day open†– a tradition that takes place at dawn at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMThursday, May 23, 2019
Rafi, Ami and Bili are sisters. They're independent women. They live their best lives. Their mother, Wura Bakare, is a hoarder. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
The air is thick with the smell of incense. The Woman (Rochelle Rose) stands behind a wooden workbench. Directly above her head,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Tennessee Williams' memory play, The Glass Menagerie, contains many autobiographical elements. Williams' mother had a personality disorder and his sister was said
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:24AMThursday, May 2, 2019
In 2009, the Guardian named Small Island one of the defining books of the decade. It tells the story of the arrival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Demi is half Nigerian mortal and half child of a Greek deity. The bastard child of Zeus, he grew up to possess
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Young lovers Katie (Olivia Rose Smith) and Hope (Fanta Barrie) are about to celebrate their second anniversary. They still work in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Maud Dromgoole's new play is inspired by the fascinating true story of Dr Mary Barton, who in the 1930s established one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:05PMFriday, March 22, 2019
When Clare Perkins delivered her rousing final monologue on the stage of Shakespeare's Globe in the 2018 production of Emilia, her words
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AM 
