“Bloody Difficult Women” at The Riverside Studios
Although the current government has blundered through both Brexit and the pandemic, and is now...
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London
“For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy” at Royal Court
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the...
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Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Marys Seacole” at the Donmar Warehouse
Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the most exciting voices working in American theatre today. The...
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“Moreno,” Theatre503
When do you have to take a stand? What compels you to do it? And what are the costs involved?...
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“Ghosts Of The Titanic,” Park Theatre
You can’t keep a great playwright down. Ron Hutchinson, whose award-winning stage plays, such as...
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“The Human Voice” at Harold Pinter Theatre
Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer...
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“Cock” at The Ambassadors Theatre
Mike Bartlett’s Cock invites suggestive comments, but the main thing about the play is that it has...
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“Red Pitch”, Bush Theatre
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In...
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“The Forest,” Hampstead Theatre
Let’s start with stereotypes: British theater is naturalistic, down-to-earth and explains...
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“The Chairs” at The Almeida Theatre
Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 play The Chairs belongs to the moment of post-second world war European...
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“Uncanny Valley” at The Battersea Arts Centre
When Uncanny Valley premiered back in 2018, the idea of artificial intelligence augmenting or...
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“Peggy For You,” Hampstead Theatre
Peggy Ramsay is a theater legend. Around the time of her death in 1991, the Australian-born agent...
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“The Glow,” Royal Court
Bizarre. Breathtaking. Beautiful. I leave the Royal Court theatre with these Bs, as well as others...
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“Trouble In Mind,” National Theatre
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
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About “Fair Play”
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
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About “Milk and Gall”
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and...
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A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…): Interview with Pablo Manzi and William Gregory
A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) marks Chilean playwright Pablo Manzi’s English-language...
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“Trouble in Mind”, National Theatre
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
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“Cabaret” at the Playhouse Theatre
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! Come on in: we need, after all, some respite from a world in...
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The Normal Heart, National Theatre
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the...
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