Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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 was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
Albert 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 wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2019
The 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 sch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Jackie Sibblies Drury thinks her acclaimed play, and the stereotypes it presents, will soon go out of date.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 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The 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 Tinuke …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
The 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 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2019
The 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 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
Soon 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 been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
The 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 02:03PM[SHARE]Jessie 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 Court…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
The 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 Elufowo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2019
The 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
'It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2019
Gina 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
Three y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2019
In 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 05:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2019
When 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 Alabanza…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Can 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 we ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Fuelled 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 Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Smash 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 a Ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Theatre 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 Mae…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2018
Assembly 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 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
Underbelly 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 Rho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Underbelly 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. Stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Underbelly 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 deb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PM[SHARE]Zoo 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 11:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2018
Pleasance 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 stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2018
Pleasance 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 bot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Seven 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 01:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
Home, 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 pri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Once 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 offensivenessDi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Following 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 07:01PM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2018
NST 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 the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE] 
