1,418 stories by "Aleks Sierz"
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush generation, or occasionally about migrants from west Africa, and their main theme has been exposin…
Beru Tessema's drama House of Ife, about an Ethiopian-British family facing a tragic loss, is deeply felt and emotional and marks a good start to this venue's 50th anniversary season.
Satinder Chohan's Lotus Beauty at the Hampstead Theatre, a loving portrait of a Punjabi family-run beauty parlour in west London's Southall, is an uneasy mix of comedy and tragedy.
David Eldridge's trilogy about relationships, which started in 2017 with the hit show Beginning, now reaches its second part with Middle, which has opened at the National Theatre.
Even 20th century drama is under threat. So can the National Theatre buck this trend with this rediscovery of The Corn Is Green, and some help from its star, Nicola Walker?
Although the current government has blundered through both Brexit and the pandemic, and is now deliberately making life more difficult for both low-income families and the rest of us, theate…
Mike Bartlett is very prolific, but this Restoration-style satire on society at London's Lyric Hammersmith is sadly timid and predictable.
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the go-to guy for answers to this question. In February, the Soho Theatre revived Queens of Sheba,…
Ryan Calais Cameron does it again: he portrays the male black British experience with joy as well as pain.
When do you have to take a stand? What compels you to do it? And what are the costs involved? These questions, which not only reflect the desire to protest against injustice in our increasin…
In 1987, Caryl Churchill " without doubt the best living playwright in Britain " premiered her Serious Money, a satire on financial capitalism written in the form of a scintillating Restorat…
You can't keep a great playwright down. Ron Hutchinson, whose award-winning stage plays, such as Rat in the Skull (1984) and Moonlight and Magnolias (2005), are contemporary classics, has be…
When theatres closed during the pandemic, the first reaction was shock. Then was born, at least among the more progressive spirits in the theatre community, a desire to build back better. To…
Ruth Wilson delivers an acting masterclass in Jean Cocteau modernist classic adapted by Ivo van Hove.
Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer hype this event takes some beating: two-time Olivier Award-winning star Ruth Wilson (last s…
Mike Bartlett's Cock invites suggestive comments, but the main thing about the play is that it has proved to be a magnet for star casting.
Football stories are never just about a game " they are also about life and how to live it. In Tyrell Williams's Red Pitch, his debut play now getting an enthusiastically energetic stagin…
Let's start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains everything clearly to the audience; Continental drama is absurdist, abstract and suggests rather tha…
Feel the love as great staging enlivens this well-written monologue about a cross-generational relationship.
Effortlessly and energetically entertaining: Tyrell Williams' debut play about football and gentrification is pitch-perfect.
Florian Zeller's superbly anti-naturalistic play is a philosophical puzzle that dissects our existential solitude.
Bizarre, beautiful and breathtaking - time-travelling fantasia boasts a brilliant staging and a spoof playtext essay.
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent was honored with a meticulous biography by Colin Chambers and a personal memoir by Simon Cal…
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others such as bewitching and beguiling, buzzing in my mind. Alistair McDowall, whose previous lef…
History is a prison. Often, you can't escape. It imprints its mark on people, environments and language. And nowhere is this more true that in Northern Ireland, where the long history of con…
