Theatre

Theatre

• Theatre and the struggle against apartheid

  

  Jacqueline Mulhallen on theatre and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and Britain

• Tate staff strike for art jobs

  

  Tate staff who are striking for jobs and the arts need our support, argues Floyd Codlin

• Small Island - theatre review

  

  This week the National Theatre are streaming their acclaimed production of Andrea Levy's Small Island from last year. On Windrush Day, we repost Katherine Connelly's review of that production

• Macbeth at Greenwich Theatre - review

  

  The Lazarus Theatre Company's take on Macbeth attempts to shed new light on the play via marrying the traditional and the contemporary, writes Alia Butt

• Wuthering Heights at the Manchester Royal Exchange - theatre review

  

  Andrew Sheridan's adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is a powerful re-imagination, strongly performed at the Royal Exchange, writes Martin Hall

• Bergman’s Persona: a new stage adaptation - theatre review

  

  Schoolman's staged version of Persona is a postmodern car crash, finds Tom Lock Griffiths

• The Canary and The Crow at Arcola Theatre - review

  

  Alia Butt reviews The Canary and The Crow, on at the Arcola Theatre until 8 February

• Sex/Crime at Soho Theatre - review

  

  Tom Griffiths reviews Sex/Crime, on at Soho Theatre till 1 February

• ‘All Sorts of Woman’: review of Selina Todd’s Tastes of Honey and the National Theatre’s A Taste of Honey

  

  Selina Todd’s biography of Shelagh Delaney contains an urgent political message and a new performance of Delaney’s most famous play shows us how radical she was, finds Katherine Connelly

• Rebels and Friends: a play by Jacqueline Mulhallen

  

  Drama, art and Irish history come together at Unite the Union’s headquarters, finds Ellen Graubart

• May Days: a benefit for Grenfell

  

  William Alderson’s “magnificent” poem May Days is to be performed by actors in aid of the Grenfell Tower victims to commemorate the anniversary of the disaster

• Sylvia - theatre review

  

  A sold-out annex theatre was treated to Jacqueline Mulhallen’s moving, informative and funny performance, Sylvia, the radical Suffragette leader

• The Acting Class review - A necessary declaration of intent from working-class actors

  

  Without the bank of mum and dad as support, opportunities in the arts are becoming non-existent. This new documentary is a cry of anger against this class injustice

• Theatre review: Richard III

  

  The Arcola Theatre‘s production of Shakespeare‘s play is an unsettling experience

• Class in the drama class: actors and privilege

  

  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne explain why they are making a new documentary, The Acting Class

• Theatre review: Othello

  

  The Globe's production of Shakespeare's play is tense and compelling, writes Tom Griffiths

• Sylvia: a play about Sylvia Pankhurst

  

  An updated version of Jacqueline Mulhallen’s one-woman play is currently on tour

• Theatre review: Hedda Gabler

  

  Ibsen's play isn’t feminist, but the role is still one of the theatre’s most exciting female characters – brutal, mad and vengeful

• Dario Fo will continue to inspire us

  

  Actor, playwright, theatre manger, activist: Dario Fo's legacy will live on, writes Jackie Mulhallen

• Paul Robeson: erased from history - podcast

  

  Portraying Paul Robeson on the 40th anniversary of his death, actor Tayo Aluko talks to us about this prodigiously talented singer, actor and socialist

• Soviet theatre – the revolution in theatre design

  

  The exhibition showcases 150 designs for Russian theatre from 1913-33 from a range of well-known artists, such as Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, Rodchenko Stepanova and Exter

• The morality of the poor: 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers'

  

  Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries you headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget

• Class act: Engels classic brought to the stage

  In the 1840s Engels wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’, based upon his experiences in Manchester. Ben Metters reviews a contemporary theatrical take on this political classic