Sweat review – chilling vision of a divided, alienated America
This timely return of Lynn Nottage’s 2015 play that anticipated Trump’s presidency has powerful performances despite never finding the right rhythm
October 2023
The week in theatre: Clyde’s; The Confessions; The Score – review
Clyde’s review – crunchy kitchen drama is a dish to be savoured
Lynn Nottage: ‘There’s no such thing as the perfect sandwich or song – just the joy that goes into creating’
The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review
September 2023
Mlima’s Tale review – haunted by the elephant who would not forget
Ira Mandela Siobhan plays a pachyderm in Lynn Nottage’s indictment of the ivory trade, leaving traces on those who murdered him and sold his tusks
May 2023
David Tennant to play Macbeth at Donmar Warehouse
The actor will take to the stage as the Scottish king in December, in the last production of the London theatre’s 30th-anniversary season
April 2023
The Secret Life of Bees review – blazing songs light up civil rights drama
A young white woman and her Black housekeeper flee across the American south amid the historic struggle, buoyed by astonishingly powerful music
October 2022
‘Sanitised’ new musical about Michael Jackson to open in London
MJ the Musical, based around the making of the singer’s 1992-93 Dangerous world tour, won four Tony awards in New York
May 2022
Tony awards 2022: A Strange Loop leads the nominees, while British talents are lauded
Three actors from The Lehman Trilogy go head to head, the musical Six picks up eight nominations and the production MJ – about Michael Jackson – is also recognised
April 2022
Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?
Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts
February 2022
MJ the Musical review – mesmerizing parade of hits doesn’t look in the mirror
The new Broadway jukebox musical on the life and pop catalog of Michael Jackson is a romp that only glances at the elephant in the room
January 2022
‘We will weather this storm’: Omicron wreaks havoc on Broadway
After a successful reopening, Covid-19 has yet again forced many hit shows to either take a hiatus or close for good but industry insiders are optimistic
October 2020
Michelle Wolf to Melania's roses: the arts and pop culture that sum up the Trump era
CocoRosie’s call to arms, the rage of Sweat, Arthur Jafa’s white supremacy montage and the first lady’s grand designs … Guardian writers pick the works that encapsulate Trump’s reign
May 2020
'The audience booed, the cast fled' – playwrights relive their worst flops
Alan Ayckbourn’s orchestra decamped to the pub, Lynn Nottage’s social satire became all too real, and April De Angelis is still angry with her critics
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century
A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
August 2019
'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author
After the death of the great Nobel-prizewinning author, Ben Okri, Alice Walker, Elif Shafak and others offer their personal tributes
March 2019
Warehouse wonders: Josie Rourke at the Donmar – in pictures
As the artistic director prepares to leave the Donmar Warehouse, we look back over her reign – from City of Angels to the Shakespeare Trilogy
January 2019
Culture webchats
Martha Plimpton on The Goonies, Sweat, partying hard and quitting Twitter
Lynette Linton: 'Why are we not marching in the streets?'
