Hate Radio review – vivid and urgent retelling of ‘Radio Machete’ atrocities
Depicting the Rwandan radio station that spurred on genocide, this harrowing show raises a warning to be heeded today
October 2022
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Billie Holiday’s blues, McKellen’s Lear and Newsies
Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story
May 2021
Édouard Louis: ‘Truth is a revenge because we live in a world of lies’
The author, who became a literary sensation at the age of 21 with The End of Eddy, is appearing in a show exploring acting in theatre and in everyday life
March 2021
Lockdown culture
The New Gospel review – a thrilling and unsettling Easter story
Milo Rau’s film mixes a dramatisation of the crucifixion story with a real-life portrait of exploited migrant workers
January 2020
Familie review – Milo Rau's soulful hymn to life on the brink of death
An acting family play the members of a family about to take their own lives in this unnerving and heartbreaking celebration of the ordinary
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
August 2019
The week in theatre: The Secret River; La Reprise; 8 Hotels – review
La Reprise: Histoire(s) du Theatre (I) review – compassion and curiosity in recreation of a murder
July 2019
Making a murder: true-crime stage show recreates a shocking killing
How do you re-enact a homicide for a theatre performance – and should you? Director Milo Rau invited people who knew the victim to take part
June 2019
Edinburgh festival 2019: 50 theatre, comedy and dance shows to see
There’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the world’s biggest arts festival
October 2018
Sex, sheep and terror: the scandalous theatre of Milo Rau
He has put an Isis fighter’s mother in the Ghent Altarpiece and restaged a brutal murder. Now the Swiss director plans to get radical
July 2018
Avignon festival review – shock, awe and 10 hours of Don DeLillo
Thomas Jolly presents the spectacular Thyestes, Milo Rau explores a real crime in La Reprise and Julien Gosselin leaves audiences in a trance
March 2018
Belgian theatre apologises for ad seeking former Isis fighters
In ads seeking actors for a new biblical play, theatre also sought people who had killed a sibling
February 2018
‘I wanted to channel the anger’: Europe's fearless political playwrights
They’ve stormed the Reichstag, turned terrorism into absurd comedy and asked their audiences for answers. Meet five theatre-makers grappling with crises across the continent
March 2017
'It's supposed to be funny': young actors perform play about child killer Marc Dutroux
Five Easy Pieces, staged at Manchester’s Sick! festival, explores the case of the Belgian paedophile and murderer. Director Milo Rau explains why he chose to let children tell the story
July 2015
Guardian Africa network
The most ambitious political theatre ever staged? 14 hours at the Congo Tribunal
Mixing a court of law with the theatrics of the stage, a landmark project investigates the 20-year long DRC conflict, hearing from real victims, politicians and big business alike
May 2015
Guardian Africa network
Part war crimes trial, part performance art: tribunal investigates Congo conflict
Theatre director brings together mining companies, government officials and local residents to try to unravel one of the world’s most complicated wars
