Anne Washburn doesn’t leave any controversial stone unturned in this three hour no-holds-barred trip through the American psyche.
...
Set in the world of middle-class Parisians, ‘The Son’ goes to the core of the human experience.
...
This revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train directed by Kate Hewitt plunges us in the hell of violence and despair that is a modern day prison.
...
Superhoe is the self-narrated life and times of aspiring singer-slash-rapper and rebel Sasha Clayton.
...
‘My Dad’s Gap Year’ at its heart is about how love survives disappointment, failure and broken taboos but Tom Wright has wrapped it up in a fast-moving comedy and the ...
Danai Jekesai stars in The Convert at the Young Vic, Africa’s cry for justice.
...
Between the sloping floor and bazar feel of the lounge to the two hundred seat theatre with fading walls, it is a warm, intimate place for a one-man show.
...
Martin Buber famously said he could not discuss God, only relationships to God. “All real living is meeting.” Lands begins with one woman, Leah (Leah Brotherhead) happily absorbed in a ...
tucker insists on showing us how a young, black person in America or Britain today is intimidated, is not allowed “to be me”.
...
Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm is a powerful depiction of ageing and loss
...
Ben Okri has adapted Albert Camus’s classic novel “The Outsider” (“L’Etranger) not only for the stage but also for the English language.
...
How happy can a family be in a society that is dismantling all the conditions for humans such as the Blakes to be safe, solvent, even healthy?
...
In our final Fringe round-up, Isabelle Dupuy singles out three very different productions that stood out for her in Edinburgh – all of which are transferring to London theatres over ...
Isabelle Dupuy brings us the first of three roundups, carefully selecting a handful of must-see shows from the 966 on offer at the Fringe this year.
...
Rotimi Babatunde’s adaptation of Lola Shoneyin’s prize-winning novel is alive with desire: visceral, physical, blinding desire.
...
Nina Raine’s play – about lawyers and their private lives – has just transferred from the National Theatre to the West End under the direction of Roger Michell.
...
Isabelle Dupuy on a special edition of the Radio 4’s The Listening Project, part of a month of performances to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage.
...
Why would men not try to understand what women want? That is the question Ella Hickson sets out to answer in her latest play The Writer.
...
After witnessing segregation and tribalism at the school gates, actress Félicité Du Jeu wrote Spiked to show “what mothers have in common rather than focus on their differences”.
...
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori have written a fierce, rousing opera celebrating the Civil Rights Movement.
...
