The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review
Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens
July 2023
The Empress review – resonant survival tales of Victorian Britain
Tanika Gupta’s historical drama has only got more relevant since 2013, but there’s an awful lot of migration stories to get through in three hours
September 2021
Love N Stuff review – a marriage in meltdown at Heathrow
Two impressive actors play a total of 15 characters but Tanika Gupta’s breezy airport comedy struggles to take off
July 2021
The week in theatre: Bach & Sons; Out West – review
Simon Russell Beale is Bach to his fingertips in Nina Raine’s intermittently brilliant new play
June 2021
Out West review – compelling trio of dramas reframes place and race
Reopening culture
Triple threat: Out West at the Lyric Hammersmith – in pictures
May 2021
Reopening culture
From McKellen’s Hamlet to a comic Hullabaloo: what to see as theatres and comedy clubs reopen
As stage shows return, we pick the best post-lockdown offerings – featuring Egyptian gods, rebelling vicars, dancing youths ... and Ian McKellen playing the Dane at 82
November 2013
Artists win awards, but should they?
Bruntwood judge Tanika Gupta and Jarman award winner John Smith reflect on the value of prizes and competition in culture
February 2011
Portrait of the artist
Portrait of the artist: Tanika Gupta, playwright
Tanika Gupta, playwright: 'I was once called "the Asian woman Bengali writer". I thought, why not just call me a writer?'
July 2006
'Write about an arranged marriage? No way!'
As her new play about Jamaica's sex tourists opens at the Royal Court, Tanika Gupta tells Lyn Gardner why she'll never be boxed in.
October 2004
Tanika Gupta
Public inquiry: Tanika Gupta, award-winning playwright whose adaptation of William Wycherley's The Country Wife opens in Watford next week.
