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David Eldridge

April 2024

  • On guard … The Divine Mrs S.

    ‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

    It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

July 2023

  • David Eldridge

    It’s time for theatres to stop ghosting the playwrights they have commissioned

    David Eldridge
    Dramatists are increasingly being strung along and ignored. We must act now to save the UK’s great playwriting culture

February 2023

  • Erin Shanagher and Gerard Kearns in Beginning.

    Beginning review – touching after-party tale of the last two left standing

    David Eldridge’s insightful play about a pair of singletons sizing each other up at the end of the night is relocated for a funny and moving revival

December 2022

  • From left … Macbeth by Imitating the Dog, Danny Boyle's Free Your Mind and standup Maisie Adam.

    2023 culture preview
    The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023

    Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour

October 2022

  • ‘A hallucinatory experience’ … Frances Barber with Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend.

    ‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

    The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

May 2022

  • Claire Rushbrook and Daniel Ryan in Middle at the

    The week in theatre: Middle; Prima Facie; Much Ado About Nothing

    A couple struggle to connect – or touch – in David Eldridge’s latest; Jodie Comer owns the courtroom; and Lucy Bailey directs a sparkling new Much Ado
  • Claire Rushbrook and Daniel Ryan looking sadly at each other in Middle

    Middle review – marital and midlife reckoning brings gags and gripes

    Gentle comedy leavens David Eldridge’s sequel about a couple mired in the swamps of regrets and resentments
  • David Eldridge, playwright.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Playwright David Eldridge: ‘What’s important to me is to move people’

    The dramatist and West Ham fan on exploring what it means to be a couple in his trilogy of plays and how King Lear blew his mind

December 2021

  • ‘Love is paying attention’ … Robert Holman.

    ‘It takes great courage to write that way’: David Eldridge on Robert Holman

  • Robert Holman in 2003.

    Robert Holman, ‘extraordinary and influential’ playwright, dies aged 69

March 2018

  • The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama perform Punk Rock by Simon Stephens.

    A bunch of amateurs? Playwrights' astonishing am-dram experiences

    David Eldridge, Simon Stephens and Alecky Blythe have all been moved by watching non-professional productions of their plays. They explain the appeal

October 2017

  • When the party’s over … Sam Troughton and Justine Mitchell in Beginning, by David Eldridge, at the National Theatre, London.

    Beginning review – sozzled loners seek a connection in the tech age

    David Eldridge’s new play is a poignant real-time examination of relationships with two damaged people reaching out at the end of a party

March 2017

  • David Storey

    David Storey, author of This Sporting Life, dies at 83

  • Kwame Kwei-Armah

    On my radar
    On my radar: Kwame Kwei-Armah

January 2017

  • Kate Ashfield in Blasted, Andy Serkis in Mojo, Neal Pearson and Frances Barber in Closer.

    Theatre blog
    Beyond Blasted: how the 90s changed theatre in the UK

    The decade is still associated with the ‘In-Yer-Face’ moniker but it brought us a thrilling variety of new writing and fresh, boundary-breaking styles of theatre

July 2016

  • Rufus Norris photographed at the National Theatre by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review.

    Rufus Norris: ‘I’m not a visionary. I don’t have to have all the ideas’

    Eighteen months into his tenure, the National Theatre’s artistic head, a one-time painter and decorator, talks diversity, criticism and making a drama out of Brexit

March 2015

  • nicholas hytner

    Bravo! Why Nicholas Hytner’s National Theatre deserves a standing ovation

  • Balletic counterpoint of language and imagery … Robert Holman.

    Simon Stephens: My favourite living writer? Robert Holman, dramatist of secrets and shyness

January 2015

  • Routes by Rachel De-Lahay at Royal Court

    The playwright’s still the thing

    David Edgar
    The death of the British dramatist is greatly exaggerated. A surge of new plays has revitalised our mastery of the art of showing society to itself

October 2014

  • Psychological drama ... Sheridan Smith and Daniel Lapaine in Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic.

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    The master linguist: the problem with translating Ibsen

    From a re-imagining of The Wild Duck to differing interpretations of The Master Builder, Ibsen’s plays are challenging source material. The New Penguin Ibsen aims to get to grips with the originals, writes Mark Lawson
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