Front row at the wedding from hell: a toast to theatre’s marital ding-dongs
Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials
November 2023
The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb
Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience
September 2023
Ainadamar review – a defiant and impassioned defence of freedom
Welsh National Opera mount Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about the assassinated Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca – a fiercely evocative piece with the feel of a passion play
June 2023
Play about NHS creator Nye Bevan is among 12 new National Theatre plays
‘Epic and deeply personal’ Nye by Tim Price will star Michael Sheen and be directed by Rufus Norris
March 2023
Of All the Beautiful Things in the World review – Lorca moves to Moss Side
Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer
July 2022
The fight to save poet Vicente Aleixandre’s house in Madrid
Campaigners want government action to save Velintonia, where the Spanish poet received writers including Federico García Lorca
July 2020
Take this waltz: Christopher Bruce on a life in dance and his Leonard Cohen dream
The Rooster choreographer recalls the genius and cruelty of Marie Rambert and the demands on young dance talent today
Emmet Byrne is superb in this relocated update of the Spanish classic but it lacks the fire of the original
December 2019
Picasso, Lorca, Capa … art reveals fate of exiles who fled Franco’s Spain
A huge exhibition in Madrid of sketches, photographs and paintings records the plight of the 500,000 republican refugees after the civil war
September 2019
Blood Wedding review – bold and beautiful tale of doom
Yaël Farber’s visceral production, relocating the action to rural Ireland, retains all the potency of Lorca’s play about tribal vengeance
November 2018
The revolutionary life, loves, and tragic death of Lorca
The gripping story of Spain’s most famous playwright vividly comes to life in a new graphic novel
April 2017
Cabo de Gata, Spain: exploring Europe's only desert
The stark, arid beauty of Cabo de Gata, in Almería, has inspired works by Lorca and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone – and has one of Spain’s least-developed coasts
February 2017
The House of Bernarda Alba review – Hunter is a domestic dictator in anti-fascist classic
Graeae use British Sign Language to bring new depths to Federico García Lorca’s play, with Kathryn Hunter on vicious form
January 2017
Kathryn Hunter rules the roost as Lorca's Bernarda Alba makes a bold return
Graeae and the Royal Exchange are staging Lorca’s classic in a show that creatively incorporates BSL, captioning and audio description and takes a great play to another level
December 2016
Lorca's Play Without a Title gets an ending, 80 years after his death
Another Spanish playwright and poet, Alberto Conejero, has added two acts to murdered author’s work, now known as The Dream of Life
August 2016
Judge opens investigation into death of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca
García Lorca’s death, possibly in 1936, remains a mystery after the site where he was believed to be buried was excavated in 2009 without finding remains
Yerma five-star review – Billie Piper is earth-quaking as Lorca's heroine
Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired present-day reworking of Lorca’s tragic study of childlessness
Yerma review – Billie Piper gives a breathtakingly uninhibited performance
In a bravura display, Piper lays bare the soul of a woman who is unable to have children – even if Simon Stone’s update is less powerful than Lorca’s original play
July 2016
Paco Peña review – music and dance blend poetically for Lorca
Patrias, the flamenco guitarist’s tribute to the Spanish writer, features superb dance solos but the multimedia projections intrude on the spectacle
