Monday, September 18, 2023
In her new play, based on WhatsApp correspondence, Sasha Denisova uses her 82-year-old mother Olga to tell a vital story of resistance and survival
For a year Sasha Denisova didn’t tell he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMThursday, August 10, 2023
The legendary playwright’s humble beginnings and Pulitzer-winning career are explored in the first authoritative biography of him
The host was Bill Moyers, former White House press secreta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
With audience attendance still down, many theatres across the US are struggling to adjust to a post-pandemic landscape
In his four years as US president, Abraham Lincoln was said to have at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMSaturday, April 15, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical is set for its final performance in New York, leaving behind an intense fanbase
He is used to having the worst seat in the house. Playing trumpet in the o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMSaturday, January 14, 2023
A slew of well-reviewed productions have closed with poor ticket sales while blockbusters dominate the market
With ineffable talents and six Tony awards, Audra McDonald is box-office gold. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28AMThursday, December 15, 2022
Jordan E Cooper became the youngest Black American writer to have a show on Broadway but Ain’t No Mo is set to close after only 17 days
It is the call that every playwright dreads. Jordan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMThursday, October 27, 2022
A new stage production tells the stories of women and their bodily autonomy, or lack thereof, as part of the fight to reverse the supreme court decision to restrict abortion
Theirs was a sec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture
For Kenneth Morris, sitting in a darkened theatre among…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMMonday, January 10, 2022
After a successful reopening, Covid-19 has yet again forced many hit shows to either take a hiatus or close for good but industry insiders are optimistic
At the curtain call, Hugh Jackman pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMTuesday, September 14, 2021
The long theatre shutdown in New York has taken its toll on the industry but a renewed and reinvigorated outlook towards diversity could have a major impact
When Ruben Santiago-Hudson walks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:23AMSaturday, February 6, 2021
To the author Jeffrey Wilson, the former president is Caesar, Lear, Bottom and more, all rolled into one
The time is out of joint. When lost for words, as many have been over the past five y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Playwright Eduardo Machado discusses his revealing new play that looks at the relationship between the Cuban revolutionary and Celia Sánchez
Fidel Castro is back in the news. Senator Bernie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, June 16, 2019
Dean Cain heads up a dramatic retelling of the controversial anti-Trump FBI texts aimed at a rightwing audience
It was not your typical Broadway or West End crowd.
On Thursday night, audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMWednesday, February 27, 2019
In his new role as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, the National Theatre and RSC star talks about swapping Brexit for Trump
As Donald Trump surged towar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThursday, January 10, 2019
In the new show Kleptocracy, a House of Cards writer takes us back to a pivotal moment in history and shines a light on the Russian president’s interior lifeThere is a bear in the woods. V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMThursday, November 1, 2018
In retelling the story of students dismantling a colonialist statue in Cape Town, a vibrant dance-filled production carries prescience for contemporary America“Rhodes was suspended in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, June 15, 2018
Hit musical, which vice-president was booed at during a 2016 performance, opened at Kennedy Center for three-month runThe mega-hit musical Hamilton made a triumphant debut in Washington on T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Composer and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld has created a multimedia event to pay tribute to his father’s journey in AuschwitzStories of the Holocaust have been told in memoirs, novels and film…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
The actor and writer has brought Noura to the Washington stage and believes that the political climate in Iraq has predicted the current state of the USA decade ago, Ni Qasey, an Iraqi who i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMThursday, May 25, 2017
The British playwright, who works as the artistic director of the Baltimore Center Stage theatre, talks about the role of art in troubled times like theseAs a Briton who has lived in America…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, April 20, 2017
The Tony-winning director talks about bringing Fun Home to Washington on the doorstep of a president whose cabinet threatens to roll back LGBT rightsDonald Trump has proved a gift to TV sati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMMonday, January 9, 2017
As Roe, a stage production centered on the landmark abortion case of the 1970s, hits Washington DC, playwright Lisa Loomer discusses its presicenceIn a normal election year, without the doze…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
She’s worked on stage with Edward Albee, befriended Maggie Smith and, in Body Heat, played one of the definitive screen femme fatales. Now Kathleen Turner is turning her thoughts to bereav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
The musical tells the story of travellers grounded in the remote Canadian town of Gander on 9/11 – yet despite the sensitive subject matter, it has received huge ovations and is bound for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
Secretary of state for whom all the world’s a stage writes essay for British Council, praising heroine’s diplomatic skills and the restorative effect of comedyPoliticians around the worl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMFriday, July 1, 2016
A leading genealogist has traced the family tree of the creator and star of Hamilton, discovering a forbidden interracial relationship and flight to MexicoHe has dazzled audiences with his v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMFriday, June 3, 2016
His play An Octoroon has been called the most eloquent drama about race this decade – but, says the playwright, his work is really about the human conditionIt started when he was about 13.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMMonday, May 16, 2016
The 1916 Irish rebellion against British rule that in six days left 485 people dead is the cue for a festival of Irish arts and culture in WashingtonWhile on the election campaign trail for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Paul Watson’s photo of a US soldier’s corpse being desecrated by a mob in Somalia won him the Pultizer – but resulted in decades of trauma explored in a new play called The Body of an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
The legendary lyricist and director has had the opposite of a hard-knock life in theatre, starting in West Side Story and writing one of the biggest musicalsAmerica’s National Theatre in W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Taken from interviews with residents of America’s poorest city, the Pulitzer-winning playwright’s Sweat has new resonance in the era of Trump and SandersWhen playwright Lynn Nottage bega…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM 
