The week in theatre: Choir Boy; Portia Coughlan; The Flea – review
Choir Boy review – gospel hymns light up stirring production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play
April 2023
Bristol Old Vic opens new season with celebration of culture and community
New artistic director Nancy Medina picks works about the power of belonging such as a queer coming-of-age story from Tarell Alvin McCraney and a musical version of David Nicholls’ Starter for Ten
February 2023
Choir Boy review – a tender meditation on Black queerness told through sublime music
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Penned by Moonlight co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, this international hit about a boy and his bullies arrives for Sydney WorldPride
February 2019
High Flying Bird review – Soderbergh scales new heights on Netflix
A sharp and layered drama about basketball, filmed on a smartphone, is another slam dunk for both the film-maker and the platform
January 2019
Choir Boy review – Tarell Alvin McCraney hits high notes on Broadway
The Clintons, Tootsie and Beetlejuice: what to expect on Broadway in 2019
February 2018
The week in theatre: Julius Caesar; The Brothers Size; The Culture – review
Nicholas Hytner’s outstanding production reconfigures Julius Caesar in more ways than one. Plus, James Graham and Moonlight’s Tarell Alvin McCraney
January 2018
The Brothers Size review – magical and bracing portrait of southern masculinity
On my radar
On my radar: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s cultural highlights
February 2017
The best quotes from the 2017 Oscars
From Viola Davis’s lyrical paean to art, to the barbs Jimmy Kimmel aimed at Trump, here are the highlights from the acceptance speeches and award presentationsrs
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Moonlight review – a five-star symphony of love
Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-nominated coming-of-age film is a heartbreaking, uplifting, minor-key masterpiece
It’s painful watching the male crisis onscreen – more painful in real life
Deborah Orr
Moonlight becomes him: Barry Jenkins's journey from a Miami housing project to the Oscars
Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there'
January 2017
Janelle Monáe: ‘I am the whole package’
She’s a musician whose work has brought her massive acclaim. She’s also an outspoken activist in the Black Lives Matter movement, and now Janelle Monáe is in Moonlight, one of the most talked about films of the year
December 2016
Trailer park
Moonlight trailer: Barry Jenkins's Oscar-tipped drama – video
A young man in Miami struggles with his sexuality and his drug-addicted mother in Barry Jenkins’s acclaimed drama
'It's all about perception': director and cast on Oscar contender Moonlight – video
Moonlight is the surprise contender in this year’s Oscar race; directed by Barry Jenkins, and adapted from a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, it’s the story of a black gay man at three different stages of his life
Top US films 2016
The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 1 Moonlight
Our countdown of 2016’s top films concludes as Benjamin Lee salutes a poetic and poignant movie that depicted the life of a gay black man with heart-swelling humanity
November 2016
Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies
As Edge of Seventeen adds another film to the coming-to-age canon we look back at the best there has ever been, from Carrie and Clueless to Mud and Moonlight
