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

BY Robyn Brentano |

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

BY Kevin Champoux |

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

BY Rhoda Feng |

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

BY Alastair Curtis |

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

BY Rhoda Feng |

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

BY Amber Power |

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

BY Donna Marcus Duke |

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

BY Carina Bukuts |

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

BY Alastair Curtis |

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

BY Jameson Fitzpatrick |

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

BY Martin Hargreaves |

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

BY Jordan Cronk |

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

BY Susanne Kennedy |

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

BY Lynne Tillman |

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

BY Andrew Hultkrans |

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review

BY Brian Dillon |

The final part of this week's art and trauma-themed Digest: A new play from Adam Brace at London's Almeida Theatre