1,385 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
Race, rage and relevance: sensitive revival of American writer Alice Childress' 1955 anti-racist play shines bright.
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Lorraine…
Moira Buffini's ambitious state-of-the-nation, climate-change play runs straight into the doldrums.
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
One of the absolute highpoints of new writing in the past couple of years has been the Death of England trilogy.
Why are we indifferent to anti-Semitism? In the past few weeks the Royal Court, a proud citadel of wokeness, has been embroiled in an appalling case of prejudice by allowing a character, who…
Al Smith's new play was jinxed before it started - and, bogged down in cartoonish detail, it never really recovers.
Intense, but inconclusive: this powerful new play about black men's mental health fails to reach a satisfying resolution.
I had a mind-expanding experience this week. And, listen, there's still a chance for you to have one too.
Powerful, poetic and profound: this well-deserved winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize now gets a cracking production on the main stage at the Bush Theatre.
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don't mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the middle of the current COVID-19 crisis, there's bound to be a certain amount of discomfort whe…
Saoirse Ronan makes her UK stage debut in Yael Farber's testosterone-fest, which is vivid, but much too long.
Remembering the months of lockdown, I can't be the only person to thrill to this play's opening lines, "When shall we three meet again?", a phrase evocative enough to be borrowed for the fir…
This new coproduction between Graeae and Tamasha is not perfect, but it offers a moving insight into ritual and belief.
This is a labour of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles.
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the best of these avoid the stereotypes of arranged marriage and terrorism. Although religious o…
Bess Wohl's history play is an imaginatively-written, brilliantly chilling and resonant account of life at a Nazi summer camp, starring Patsy Ferran and Luke Thallon.
This is a labor of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles, who is the Royal Shakespeare Company…
Are we too obsessed with Nazism? Apart from countless television programs which revisit that grim era, as fact or as fiction, in monochrome or in color, briefly or at length, there has recen…
American playwright Aleshea Harris' dazzlingly satirical 2018 extravaganza is about two women seeking justice and getting even, and it comes to the Royal Court from New York, trailing shouts…
I remember seeing Shelagh Stephenson's contemporary classic at the Hampstead, when this venue was still an ageing prefab, and enjoying Terry Johnson's racy staging,
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing, often experimenting with form as well as documenting the lives of Black Britons. Her new pla…
At its best, the subjective and poetic image creation in Rockets and Blue Lights at the National Theatre is both audacious and striking. At its worst, it is over-complex, confusing and overl…
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. I thought I needed some extra strength. And it seems exactly the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of America's most provocativ…
The Young Vic's main stage reopens with Booker Prize winner Ben Okri's short play Changing Destiny, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
