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James Graham

July 2024

  • Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate

    Gareth Southgate tried to unite rather than divide, says Dear England writer

  • Caught … Red Speedo, about an elite swimmer who dopes.

    Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

June 2024

  • Gareth Southgate with his arms raised as he claps, standing alone on the pitch in a huge stadium

    Golden boy to whipping boy: how England turned on Gareth Southgate

  • The cast of Dear England in the West End 2023.

    Play about England football team to return with potential for new final act

May 2024

  • David Shields (centre) in Punch at Nottingham Playhouse.

    Punch review – James Graham’s tragic study of a fatal blow

    A teenager kills a trainee paramedic with a single strike on a night out in Nottingham in this deftly directed play based on a real story

April 2024

  • Arifa Akbar

    2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe

    Arifa Akbar
  • Nicole Scherzinger with the Best Actress in a Musical award.

    Sunset Boulevard wins big at Oliviers as celebrity talent largely overlooked

March 2024

  • Robert Portal as Bamber Gascoigne and Will Jennings as Patrick in Starter for Ten.

    The week in theatre: Starter for Ten; Uncle Vanya review – fingers on buzzers, and samovars

    Bamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chekhov works like a charm

February 2024

  • Steffan Rhodri in The Way speaking to a roomful of people

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Way; Breathtaking; Boarders; Joe Lycett vs Sewage – review

  • Callum Scott Howells in The Way

    TV review
    The Way review – Michael Sheen’s thrilling new drama is like nothing else on TV

December 2023

  • Claire Foy in The Crown

    Every episode of The Crown – ranked!

    From devastatingly poignant drama about unforgettable events to ghost Diana and a breakdancing Prince Charles – the royal saga has been a rollercoaster ride. Here are the highs and lows

October 2023

  • Barry Sloane as Yosser, punching someone, while others look on horrified, in Boys from the Blackstuff.

    The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

    Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

September 2023

  • Lewis Reeves as Major Charles Ingram, and Rory Bremner as Chris Tarrant in Quiz at Chichester Festival theatre.

    Quiz review – Rory Bremner is an uncanny Chris Tarrant

    A delightfully performed and finely crafted revival of James Graham’s fresh and funny play about the Millionaire cougher case, which critiques the TV industry and trials by media
  • Boys from the Black Stuff dress rehearsal at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. Picture Jason Roberts. L to R Mark Womack, Barry Sloane, Aron Julius

    Boys from the Blackstuff review – powerful portrayals of working-class pride

    James Graham’s funny and violent TV adaptation belies a sensitive study of male mental health, as right-wing economics hits a group of road layers’ lives
  • James Graham and Alan Bleasdale at the Royal Court theatre in Liverpool.

    ‘The despair is the same’: Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff

    It’s a dream team: the creator of the 1982 BBC series and the writer of Sherwood. The pair meet in Liverpool to discuss putting Yosser and the lads on stage in a new era of economic desperation

June 2023

  • Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate in Dear England

    The Observer view on Dear England: Cry God for Harry, England and our Gareth

    Theatre audiences are gripped by James Graham’s story of Gareth Southgate’s team, and the first Ashes Test was almost unwatchably tense

May 2023

  • Restoring the feel-good factor … Sean Gilder and Tashinga Bepete during rehearsals for Dear England at the National theatre.

    ‘There’s something Shakespearean about Gareth Southgate’: the epic play about England’s hero

  • ‘I love observing the way bodies are’ … Shelley Maxwell.

    Shelley Maxwell: the soul-stirring master mover who makes superheroes dance

March 2023

  • Lesley Manville as Julie Jackson in Sherwood.

    Bafta TV awards 2023: full list of nominations

  • Pure reconstruction … Teagle F Bougere (left) and Eric T Miller in Debate: Baldwin v Buckley at Stone Nest.

    Baldwin v Buckley: how the ‘debate play’ made a riveting resurgence

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