1,231 stories by "Arifa Akbar"
Royal Court, LondonTarantinoesque bloodshed meets Greek tragedy in Aleshea Harris's daring drama about a voyage of vengeance
It is not often that a play manages to resemble a Tarantino film …
Kiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini, Roy Williams and Suhayla El-Bushra deliver a trio of powerful immigrant stories set in the London borough
NW Trilogy comprises three short plays with one o…
Available onlineFehinti Balogun's show uses hip-hop and spoken word to explore the ways people of colour have been excluded from environmental activism
There is a moment in Fehinti Balogun's…
Adelphi theatre, LondonThis is a splashy theatre-film mashup, with gravity-defying effects, cute quirks and offbeat gags
How does a car speed at 88mph on stage? That must have been the bigge…
Birmingham RepAyub Khan Din's comedy still resonates in its depiction of a hostile environment " Salford in the 70s " while its sharp wit and warm characterisations are exhilarating
Twenty-f…
Minerva theatre, ChichesterThis tale of a claustrophobic mother-daughter relationship takes contrived turns, but the starkly moving performances remain compelling
Much has changed in Ireland…
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonBarry Reckord's sexually charged play about freedom and rebellion is drowned out by chaotic comedy
The Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord broke several boundaries in…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonBeyond the visual thrills and powerful ballads, this adaptation brings an unexpected depth to the relationship between two tortured sisters
This musical extr…
The resurgence of Black Lives Matter has given fresh potency to the theatre company's production " an earthquake of sound and dance
We have been encouraged to bring our "rags and flags" to T…
Dorfman theatre, LondonA tidal wave of plotlines, ideas and characters embraces past and present in a production where playfulness meets cruelty
Winsome Pinnock's leviathan of a play opens w…
Old College Quad, EdinburghThis lightweight cabaret-style set sells its subject short, even if Cumming can belt out a power ballad convincingly
The promise is that Alan Cumming will talk abo…
Almeida theatre, LondonAdrian Edmondson plays a psychopath in Josh Azouz's nuanced tragicomedy about Jewish-Arab relations in 1942
A man is buried up to his neck with only a geometrical dese…
Available onlineIn her audio play, Frances Poet nimbly entwines Sophia Jex-Blake's groundbreaking battles with the story of her biographer
Sophia is the story of Scotland's first female doct…
Inspired by a Guardian article, the theatre's surreal and spellbinding show AI is a collaboration between humans and the system GPT-3
Last autumn, a deep-learning computer programme wrote an…
Olivier theatre, LondonLesley Sharp stars in a tragedy that interrogates notions of military machismo and the performance of masculinity
Kae Tempest's reworked Sophoclean tragedy is the stor…
Prince of Wales theatre, LondonThe sharp Channel 4 comedy becomes a lumbering stage show sending up King Charles and a band of boo-worthy buffoons
For fans of the TV series, watching The Win…
Globe Theatre, LondonImaginative directorial tweaks and an expert cast bring out the full effects of a text stuffed with double-meanings, gender-swapped disguises and dextrous language
Post-…
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonTimothy Sheader's production relocates the musical from New England to the north of England and dismantles the fatal romance at its heart
It is no surpr…
Her career has taken her from pop success to Strictly and the stage. She discusses the pain of racist comments, the joy of duetting with Beyoncé " and the enduring influence of her late mot…
Palace theatre, LondonThis confusing concoction of cabaret, holiday camp entertainment, panto and pub act fails to showcase its talented illusionists
The first thing to say about Wonderville…
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah's adaptation of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem is ambitious and visually stunning, but Ben Okri's script is too broadbrush
Two towering pyramids dominate th…
Turbine theatre, LondonDespite heartfelt intentions and some energetic performances, this production doesn't do justice to the brilliance of Kevin Elyot's 1994 script
Kevin Elyot's 1994 play…
Old Vic, LondonEmma Rice's version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed
Just as Wim Wenders' road movie put P…
London PalladiumAlexandra Burke, Jason Donovan and Technicolor coat-wearer Jac Yarrow are among a cast whose performances ooze personality and mischief
While Andrew Lloyd Webber bumpily stee…
Hampstead theatre, London
Tennessee Williams's play within a play uses ingenious artifice, as its actor brother and sister perform their way into madness, but locks out the audience
There is…
