The week in theatre: Hello, Dolly!; The Hot Wing King; Fangirls – review
The Hot Wing King review – Katori Hall’s comedy sizzles with joy
May 2024
Tina Turner’s honesty about trauma continues to inspire, says writer of West End hit
A year after the singer’s death, Katori Hall – whose musical is now also touring – says the show is like ‘one last concert’ for fans
October 2021
The Mountaintop review – Martin Luther King meets his match in a motel room
Ntombizodwa Ndlovu is spellbinding in Katori Hall’s intriguing drama about an imaginary meeting between King and a maid
July 2021
Pulitzer winner Katori Hall: ‘I think of theatre as a church. It’s a sanctuary’
Her Tina Turner musical is a smash, her stripper TV show P-Valley sizzles –and now The Hot Wing King, inspired by her gay brother, has earned her one of the world’s top gongs
July 2020
'It's a workplace drama': P-Valley creator Katori Hall talks breakout stripper series
TV review
P-Valley review – strip club drama is one of the year's best new shows
June 2020
Gbolahan Obisesan: give BAME talent trust and theatre will thrive
Martin Luther King drama The Mountaintop performed to 'bring communities together'
December 2019
Best culture 2019
Top 10 theatre shows of 2019
Katori Hall gave us a miracle, Caryl Churchill delivered a dark quartet and Tom Hiddleston astounded in Betrayal. But the year’s highlight was a breathtaking Ibsen with Hayley Atwell
January 2019
Our Lady of Kibeho review – startling story of a heavenly 'visitation'
The schoolgirls who warned of Rwanda's genocide
April 2018
The week in theatre: Tina; A Clockwork Orange; Instructions for Correct Assembly – review
Tina review – whirlwind Turner tribute leaves you breathless
March 2018
Katori Hall, writer of Tina Turner musical, on #MeToo, diversity and inclusion
Katori Hall promises the true story of the singer, who she describes as a shining example
December 2017
'I challenge them to leave but force them to stay': playwrights on their audiences
Eight dramatists, including Lucy Prebble, Neil LaBute and Chris Goode, discuss how much they think about the people who will come and watch their work
October 2016
The Mountaintop review – Luther King Olivier-winner returns with driving energy
Katori Hall’s play about the civil rights leader and a hotel maid flirting over a long night of political discussion gains fresh resonance in the context of Black Lives Matter
July 2016
Top playwrights join fight to save drama in schools
Patrick Marber and James Graham tell Vanessa Thorpe why it’s vital performing arts stay on syllabus
November 2015
Casting of white actor as Martin Luther King prompts outrage from playwright
Ohio university production of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop featured a white and black actor as King, which Hall says was ‘disrespectful’ and a ‘disservice’
November 2013
Australia culture blog
The Mountaintop: Melbourne Theatre Company – review
Van Badham: Zahra Newman and Bert La Bonte excel in Katori Hall's play, set during the last hours of Martin Luther King's life
