A small cast is telling a big story in the stage adaptation of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Plus: Royal Court’s ear for eye.
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When it comes to arts funding, a white director can’t know the “struggles of a black man”
Lennon, who has at some point in his life identified as white, describes himself as a “born-again African”.
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Martin McDonagh and Robert Icke should take audiences walking out of their plays as a compliment
It just goes to show theatre’s enduring power to disturb.
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Hampstead Theatre’s I And You: a distinctly Young Adult play
Maisie Williams shines in this play of boy-meets-girl-with-serious-illness.
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The Pinter at the Pinter season already confirms the writer’s remarkable theatrical afterlife
Provocative tone and complex form triumph in new stagings of Harold Pinter’s 20 short plays.
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What’s worse, being jealous or crazy? This Cleopatra is both
The National’s Antony and Cleopatra is not Concept Shakespeare; news that many prospective audience members will greet with relief.
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The National Theatre’s Antony and Cleopatra: gorgeous, but too high on the Giggle Index
Ralph Fiennes's pansexual goatishness and Sophie Okonedo's haughty insecurity are potent, but this production is simply too long.
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The National Theatre’s The Prisoner is a moving example of Peter Brook’s “late style”
The playwright’s latest work nods most fondly to two classical texts he is connected with: Oedipus and Hamlet.
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