“Les Blancs” at The National Theatre
Lorraine Hansberry’s debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to...
Read MoreAleks Sierz FRSA is a British theatre critic. He is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), The Theatre of Martin Crimp (Methuen, 2006), John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008) and Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today (Methuen, 2011). He has also written, co-authored with Lia Ghilardi, The Time Traveller’s Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years (Oberon, 2015). His latest book is Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre 1940–2015 (Methuen, 2019). Sierz has written for publications including Tribune, The Arts Desk and The Stage, as well as newspapers such as The Independent.
Posted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jul 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom
Lorraine Hansberry’s debut, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama written by a black woman to...
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Edwardian dramatist St John Ervine was once, along with Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Why do we love the royals so much? In his Introduction to the play text, published to coincide...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jun 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Yesterday, I took a break from my sunny local park and turned a room in my house into the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jun 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2020 | News, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
We are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jun 2020 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
The National Theatre’s triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th May 2020 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Over the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and venues all over...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th May 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Hampstead Theatre has recently been very successful in bringing some of its best shows to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st May 2020 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Reviewing theatre now means reviewing the film. Knowing that Emma Rice’s Old Vic 2018 production...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2020 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
Artemisia Gentileschi definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2020 | Adaptation, Directing, Germany, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Gender, Transmedia
Virginia Woolf’s reputation has closely followed British cultural trends: in the interwar years...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Apr 2020 | Theatre and Art, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Armchair theatre-lovers rejoice. During the lockdown, the National Theatre is streaming a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Transmedia, United Kingdom
It’s only been a week since London’s West End went dark and theatres closed all over the UK, but...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Apr 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
With everyone in lockdown, observing physical if not social distancing, a story about isolation...
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