Wednesday, April 7, 2021
US activist and dramatist Erika Dickerson-Despenza wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize with the play cullud wattah
A “bold and urgent” play about the Flint water crisis, seen through the ey…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMSunday, April 4, 2021
Sky ArtsJosh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley captivate as the star-crossed lovers in a pacy, painterly and emotionally raw production
The National Theatre’s first foray into film-making is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMThursday, April 1, 2021
After the pandemic nixed a stage run of Shakespeare’s tragedy, the theatre launched an ambitious film version starring Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor
Just over a year ago, Simon Godwin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMWednesday, March 31, 2021
The bright mind who lit up Blindness at the Donmar and the National Theatre’s panto approaches each job like a mystery
After Jessica Hung Han Yun’s first professional gig as a lighting d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, March 26, 2021
Available onlineDeborah Bruce’s grief-stricken monologue Guidesky and I is the pick of the Orange Tree theatre’s introspective bunch
Inside comprises three short studies of what it means…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThe minds behind Britain’s oldest black theatre group discuss pulling out of Birmingham Rep when it became a Nightingale court – and their plans to conquer the West End
Britain’s oldes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, March 25, 2021
Available onlineThe playwright takes us inside the mind of his late mother in a poignant audio play that dramatises her shifting sense of self
Anyone who has observed dementia at close quart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, March 22, 2021
In the second of our two-parter, rock stars, roadies, actors, dancers, composers and comics describe how their lives have been transformed without live shows – and imagine what now lies ah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMThursday, March 18, 2021
Available onlineIan Hallard’s entertaining romance is full of conversational crossed wires and social awkwardness
A pandemic drama that centres on two people in a Zoom conversation is a ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMHome, presented by the Abbey theatre, shines a light on decades of abuse of unmarried women and children in Ireland
Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, which …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
This online experiment uses live motion capture to bring the fairies and sprites of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to vivid life
The opening moments of Dream contain all the enticements of an a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMAfter drama school, the actor feared she’d made a terrible mistake until she had a run of acclaimed roles on stage, TV and in the hit film version of David Copperfield
Rosalind Eleazar rem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMMonday, March 15, 2021
Available onlineEternal youth and beauty exist only online in this thoroughly modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s fable, which counts Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley among its impressive cast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMThe acclaimed Swedish director’s Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers
Maria Aberg was having one of the busiest times of her 20-year …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, March 12, 2021
Available onlinePart two in NTGent’s Sorrows of Belgium trilogy is a visually arresting account of the rise of the Rex party and the horror of the second world war
Director Luk Perceval’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMThursday, March 11, 2021
Available onlineIn Steppenwolf theatre company’s creepy satire on palace life, two women have an intense teatime meeting
It is tempting to assume that an American drama about black women c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
BBC Radio 4David Mamet’s new play, adapted as an audio drama, follows an indomitable Manhattanite willing to sacrifice everything to save her murderer son
It is peculiarly low-key for a p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMMonday, March 8, 2021
Thirst Trap and Swimming Home are two new audio productions which audiences listen to while submerged – but don’t expect a relaxing soak
Two new immersive audio shows involve running a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMFriday, March 5, 2021
Available onlineScenery, sounds, light and casting are treated with endless invention in this charmingly low-key take on Fitzgerald’s classic
Stage and screen adaptations of The Great Gats…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, March 3, 2021
Available onlineAs two women compete for the attentions of a middle-aged man, Athena Stevens’ production explores abuse and complicity
Everything about Late Night Staring at High Res Pixel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMAfter cutting her teeth on carnival parades and the Olympics opening ceremony, the bright designer collaborated on dazzling creations for major London stages
Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey’s car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, March 1, 2021
In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer’s imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness – but is mostly obsessed with sex
Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel Klara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSunday, February 28, 2021
Available online Disgraced stars must plead for the audience’s forgiveness – or suffer a nasty fate – in a show that prizes horror over interaction, yet delivers a satisfying adrenalin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, February 25, 2021
Available onlineThis superb play draws on the final hours of Christopher Alder, who died in police custody in Hull in 1998
Christopher Alder’s last moments, in April 1998, were unforgivab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Available online It’s a ball playing sleuth – with Dr Watson’s help – even if you don’t identify the killer in this interactive show
This interactive sleuthing show has the punning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMSunday, February 21, 2021
Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown
There have been many notable nightclubs in film his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMFriday, February 19, 2021
Available onlineDanny Sapani and Adrian Lester strike up true chemistry in a poignant friendship drama that wears its racial context lightly
Danny Sapani describes this play about an oddbal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Available onlineCovid guidelines and clunky camerawork sadly undermine the ebullient performances in this digital adaptation of Alice Walker’s modern classic
It felt auspicious when the le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMAvailable onlineHarriet Walter, Cherylee Houston and Sharon D Clarke star in the second collection of shorts in Graeae’s series of dramas
The second instalment of Graeae theatre company’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMAvailable onlinePeter Barnes’s spellbinding play about class as seen by a Buckingham Palace footman is the pick of these four single-handers
Most of Peter Barnes’s people in this quartet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
Our new series profiling theatre talents continues with a sparky, award-winning writer-actor committed to making her industry more inclusive
For as long as Amy Trigg can remember, she wanted…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM 
