‘We want the audience to feel there is hope’: how to write a play about the climate crisis, by the team behind The Jungle and Little Amal
The latest play from the writing duo focuses on the landmark 1997 conference in Japan. They talk about the importance of consensus
April 2024
2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe
Arifa Akbar
A string of seven awards for Sunset Boulevard was hardly radical, and many more daring theatrical successes went unrewarded
December 2023
The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review
Every episode of The Crown – ranked!
The Duffer Brothers: ‘The last series of Stranger Things is the biggest it’s ever been’
The West End turns upside down … Stranger Things: The First Shadow – in pictures
January 2023
Brian Tufano obituary
Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia
December 2021
2021 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2021
The great telly countdown hits the top spot with a furiously joyful, gut-wrenching five-part drama that was funny and full of life
July 2021
Meet Little Amal, the puppet girl refugee about to walk 8,000km
Later this month, a giant puppet will trek from the Syria-Turkey border to Manchester, in a moving-theatre show of solidarity with asylum seekers
June 2021
No lights, no camera: UK TV producers face equipment shortage
Film and television industry struggles with surge in demand for high-end shows fuelled by lockdown binge viewing
June 2020
Lockdown culture
Rush review – Rupert Everett searches for the meaning of monogamy
A gay love triangle leads to a generational battle over over queer identity in a beguiling, Zoom-broadcast comedy of manners
April 2019
The Inheritance, Company and Come from Away win big at Olivier awards
Olivier awards 2019: full list of winners
February 2019
Views of the gods: Alan Rickman, Cate Blanchett and more theatre legends – in pictures
Ivan Kyncl: In the Minute, an exhibition celebrating the atmospheric work of the Czech-born theatre photographer, is at the V&A in London until 7 July
January 2019
The Inheritance wins best new play at UK Critics' Circle awards
Matthew Lopez’s epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott’s production of Company is named best musical
July 2018
The Jungle review – vital drama of hope and despair at the Calais camp
This vivid recreation of life in the sprawling refugee camp is a priceless piece of theatre that enlarges our understanding while appealing to our emotions
May 2018
Sprawling epic of gay life The Inheritance to transfer to West End
Matthew Lopez’s sold-out two-part play at the Young Vic will move to the Noël Coward Theatre in September
March 2018
The Inheritance review – Angels in America meets Howards End
Stephen Daldry directs a stellar cast, including Vanessa Redgrave, in a rollercoaster epic about gay men in New York
Matthew Lopez's gay New York epic The Inheritance – in pictures
The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s two-part drama about young gay men in New York, opens at the Young Vic in London this month. Vanessa Redgrave and Poldark’s Kyle Soller are among the cast for the world premiere
The Jungle, play about Calais migrant camp life, to get West End run
Playhouse Theatre will stage immersive production of work by Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy
