The best theatre to stream this month: Heathers, Alvin Ailey and more
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Panti Bliss’s drag journey, Athol Fugard’s ballroom dreamers and Alain Platel’s nightmarish dance-theatre
September 2021
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act review – a short, sharp shock
Athol Fugard’s portrait of two lovers defying an apartheid-era ban on interracial sex crackles with tension
May 2021
David Lan: In the age of apartheid, theatre resisted
The theatre director and writer looks back at the spirit of protest that fuelled daring dramas staged in South Africa 50 years ago
November 2019
Hello and Goodbye review – Athol Fugard’s powerful sibling drama
Hello and Goodbye review – Athol Fugard's dark reunion gets under the skin
October 2019
The week in theatre: “Mr Harold”… and the boys; Blood Wedding; Macbeth – review
Athol Fugard’s masterly apartheid drama, lyrical Irish Lorca, and a tragically stately Macbeth
Boulevard theatre, London's new Soho venue, announces first shows
State-of-the-art West End theatre opens its doors with a season including plays by Cormac McCarthy and Lucy Prebble
'Master Harold' … and the Boys review – a waltz for worldly harmony
Athol Fugard explores South Africa in 1950 through a white teenager and two black men who practise ballroom dance routines
July 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: what books can help me to love my enemies?
Buddhist wisdom and Anita Brookner help make sense of those annoying others
March 2019
Athol Fugard's apartheid dramas still bite in our divided age
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion
January 2016
Marie-Hélène Estienne: the powerhouse behind Peter Brook
She’s not just his fixer, assistant, co-writer and collaborator. She even picks the costumes and carpets. As Peter Brook revisits his epic Mahabharata, Marie-Hélène Estienne looks back on 40 years of triumphs and tiffs
November 2015
Matthew Xia: why I want to keep fairytales real
He bet his mum he’d be a superstar DJ in two years. Now he looks set to be a superstar stage director as well. The rising star talks mind-reading, discovering Plan B – and rescuing Sondheim from Disney
September 2015
The Waiting is over: Brian Cox and Bill Paterson on finally sharing a stage
Their paths have crossed throughout their acting careers, but Brian Cox and Bill Paterson will finally team up for the ultimate double act: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. They discuss its everlasting appeal
December 2014
Who goes to the theatre – and who doesn’t
Letters: If ethnic minority communities don’t relate strongly to theatre as an art form, let’s just admit it and get over it
August 2014
Guardian Africa network
Athol Fugard: 'Prejudice and racism are still alive and well in South Africa'
As the country’s greatest ever playwright takes to the stage for the last time, he tells David Smith why he will never lose his optimism for South Africa’s future
June 2014
Acting against apartheid: the enduring power of South African protest theatre
South Africa's theatre of resistance, as penned by the likes of Athol Fugard, roared around the world, bringing pressure to bear on the regime back home, writes Jack Klaff
Fever/District 6 review – insights into South Africa's past traumas
Boerish brutality in the Victorian era and the story of a writer torn between cultures illuminate the country's troubled history, writes Michael Billington
Ruby Dee obituary
Janet Suzman Q&A – as it happened
Oscar-nominated actor and civil rights activist Ruby Dee dies at 91
