Theatre

Jez Butterworth’s mesmerizing new play – directed by Sam Mendes – explores the complexities of sisterhood and the echoes of the past in a Blackpool guesthouse⁠

A new play by Gillian Solvo highlights the lives of those who survived the devastating fire

Fifty years after the debut of Wilson’s Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, a friend and collaborator remembers her time with the director

The new play, on at Playwrights Horizons, New York, relies too heavily on pop-psychological tropes of trauma and its acknowledgement

New to Broadway, Emmy award-winning actor Jodie Comer plays a barrister who struggles to reconcile the letter of the law with her own sexual harassment

The rising playwright and director discuss Sound of the Underground – a collaboration between eight drag performers – opening at London’s Royal Court Theatre

Anthony McCarten’s play on the two art legends’ relationship is bogged down in potted biographies but builds to a crescendo

The artist’s latest one-act play considers the social and psychic repercussions of Belgium's colonialist project

A staged ‘not closing down sale’ at Ginny on Frederick, London, advertises a space in which nothing is quite as it seems

On the occasion of the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Carina Bukuts writes about his 20-year practice of deconstructing the image politics of war

The artist and poet speak to frieze about staging the domestic intimacies of the pandemic and post-pandemic worlds

How Theater of War Productions uses ancient stories to lead COVID-19 health workers out of silence and into a healing experience of community

As the playwright’s ‘Slave Play’ reaches a wider audience, Jameson Fitzpatrick looks at his work so far

Anthony Ekundayo Lennon, born to Irish parents but describes himself as ‘mixed-heritage’, won a theatre job meant to go to a BAME applicant

The artist queers the canonical histories of art and theatre, pointing to how things might actively and fantastically engage in being otherwise

The divisive director out after less than six months by mutual consent

Jordan Cronk visits Berlin’s Volksbühne and Liberté, Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra’s first large-scale work for the stage

As Susanne Kennedy's Women in Trouble premieres at Berlin's Volksbühne, the theatre director discusses her life and influences 

A new play by Wallace Shawn examines what it means to survive in today’s society

A new album by theatre group Object Collection warns against political nostalgia