Reviews
Review: The Damned (Les Damnés) at Barbican Theatre
Vaulting ambition: Arjun Sajip writes on Ivo Van Hove's bold but flawed staging of a 1969 cinematic classic.
21 June
Features
Do trigger warnings ruin theatre’s power to surprise?
Alice Saville writes on theatre's uneasy relationship with trigger warnings, and the faultlines they reveal.
12 June
Reviews
Review: Light in the Piazza at Southbank Centre
Jagged and off-kilter: Hailey Bachrach writes on a flawed revival of a lyrical musical.
20 June
Reviews
Review: Bitter Wheat at Garrick Theatre
A bitter draft: Alice Saville reluctantly reviews David Mamet's Weinstein play.
20 June
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Reviews
Review: Strange Fruit at Bush Theatre
No place like home: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews Nancy Medina's revival of Caryl Phillips' family drama.
18 June
Reviews
Review: Citysong at Soho Theatre
'They capture a moment and keep it hanging there, letting you bask in it all': Kate Wyver writes on Dylan Coburn Gray's swirling reflection of Dublin.
18 June
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Features
Natasha Tripney
An Obsession Is Born
Natasha Tripney marks the launch of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe programme with a poem, crafted from its cut up and reassembled entrails.
J N Benjamin
Rebekah Murrell: “It is becoming less OK to not acknowledge the greatness of Blackness”
Rebekah Murrell is directing J'Ouvert, a tale of carnival culture at Theatre503. Here, she talks unconventional career paths, ticket prices, and the renaissance in Black theatre.
Andrew Edwards
Somewhere different, somewhere else
Andy Edwards writes on four encounters with Glasgow's Take Me Somewhere, an annual festival of live performance.
Rosemary Waugh
Arming an Armadillo
Writer Sarah Kosar and director Sara Joyce talk about narratives of victimhood, female agency, and their new show Armadillo.
Reviews
Review: One Night in Miami at Nottingham Playhouse
'What about the Struggle': Naomi Obeng writes a poetic response to Kemp Powers' imagined account of the meeting of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke.
16 June
Reviews
Review: The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil at Live Theatre, Newcastle
'Sharpened like a blade': Tracey Sinclair reviews an intimate, impromptu-feeling revival of John McGrath's landmark play.
16 June
Reviews
Review: The Future at Battersea Arts Centre
Alarming prophecies: Simon Gwynn writes a dystopian diary in response to Little Bulb's show exploring Artificial Intelligence.
16 June
Reviews
Review: Woke at Battersea Arts Centre
'The political through the personal': Emily Davis reviews Apphia Campbell's Woke, which depicts five decades of civil rights struggles.
15 June
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24 May
Andy Field
A Forest Fringe Film
After building a free DIY film school, Forest Fringe are making a movie this summer. Here's Andy Field on why.
14 May
J N Benjamin
Recasting Death of a Salesman
"We’re not asking the audience not to see the colour of their skin - we are specifically asking them to look at it” - Miranda Cromwell, Marianne Elliott and Wendell Pierce discuss the impact of casting black actors in Miller's play.
13 May
Ava Wong Davies
Anchuli Felicia King: “You have to recognise the shithole you’re in, in order to climb out.”
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King's grimly comic satire of the Singapore skin-lightening industry opens at the Royal Court this week. In this interview, she discusses Mamet, Crazy Rich Asians, and late-stage capitalism.
8 May
James Varney
Transform 2019: Geographical Accidents
James Varney writes on live art festival Transform, and explores how its line-up intertwines with the Leeds streets that surround it.
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