“London Tide,” National Theatre
“He do the police in different voices.” If ever one phrase summed up a work of fiction, and the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Apr 2024 | Dramaturgy, Review, United Kingdom
“He do the police in different voices.” If ever one phrase summed up a work of fiction, and the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jan 2024 | Acting, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
This transfer of Jack Thorne’s hit National Theatre play to the West End has been hailed as...
Read MorePosted by Kaggwa Andrew Mayiga | 20th Nov 2023 | Festivals, News, Uganda
The Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF) will open on November 22 in Uganda. This will be...
Read MorePosted by Vanessa Tomassini | 6th Nov 2023 | Festivals, Tunisia
The curtain rises on the first edition of the Tunisian National Theater Festival. “Les...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Sep 2023 | Documentary Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Aug 2023 | Review, United Kingdom
Success always opens doors. Ever since the HBO drama Succession was lauded as a huge international...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jul 2023 | Review, United Kingdom
James Graham’s Dear England at the National Theatre: Joseph Fiennes plays a mesmerizing soccer manager in this sport-of-the-nation drama
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Apr 2023 | Directing, Ireland, Review, United Kingdom
Brian Friel’s classic play about the blending of Paganism and Christianity in 1930s Ireland is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Nigeria, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’s 2019 adaptation...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Dec 2022 | Directing, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Is British new writing in deep trouble? With the Arts Council defunding venues such as the...
Read MorePosted by Andrej Čanji | 2nd Aug 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Serbia, Theatre and Politics
National Theatre, Belgrade, premiere 12th March 2022 The Years of Crows is the great comeback for...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Langston | 14th Mar 2022 | Covid-19, Essay, Producing, United Kingdom
When the UK went into lockdown in 2020, its multibillion-pound theatre industry could have ceased...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 16th Nov 2021 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Hypocrisy. Is this the right word? I don’t mean the play, but the audience. Of course, in the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Sep 2021 | London, Review, United Kingdom
For more than three decades, playwright Winsome Pinnock has been at the forefront of new writing,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Oct 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
When the history of British theatre’s response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two...
Read MorePosted 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...
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 Laura Jayne Wright | 13th May 2020 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the...
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