Scene changers: the theatre-makers with radical ideas to combat racism
Many black theatre-makers say they feel unwelcome in major venues. Are some performances for black-only audiences the answer? And how can a play spur white audiences to confront their own biases?
June 2020
Black Lives Matter: four plays that resonate amid the protests
'There is a growing unease': will Covid-19 damage theatre's progress in diversity?
May 2020
'You can dream bigger': what writers prefer about stage to screen
Lockdown culture
Up close and sensational: the best monologues made during lockdown
January 2018
After #MeToo
'Directors are no longer untouchable gods': transforming British theatre
The actors, directors and producers changing theatre
April 2017
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography: March 2017
Portraits of actor Cillian Murphy, artist Rachel Whiteread and actor Steve Coogan all feature in this month’s showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer
March 2017
Rachel De-lahay: ‘Being a brown woman is political in itself’
The British playwright on changing ‘normal’, holding an audience and getting white people to give a damn
June 2014
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Second album syndrome for 'promising' playwrights
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Why theatre can't resist planes, trains and automobiles
May 2014
Rachel De-lahay: 'There was lots of flirting, lots of making friends on buses'
Circles review – Birmingham seen from the top of a bus
September 2013
Routes; Storm in a Flower Vase; The Last Yankee – review
Routes – review
June 2011
Seven new plays in next Royal Court theatre season
Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Faith Machine begins series, which also includes work by David Eldridge and April de Angelis
December 2010
Theatre blog
The Alfred Fagon awards: the best of black British playwriting?
Winsome Pinnock: Black British playwrights are more visible than ever. But these awards celebrate work that would otherwise pass unnoticed
