No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures
Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
February 2024
The Big Life review – big-hearted Windrush musical returns with irrepressible verve
‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking?
April 2023
Blue review – racial violence, love and loss in a lyrical and angry work of unflinching power
Jeanine Tesori’s opera, with its tragically familiar narrative of police brutality, is compellingly told in Tinuke Craig’s nuanced production for English National Opera.
June 2022
Jitney review – a taut, tense tale of Black injustice in 1970s America
A stylish rework of the August Wilson character-study sees a standout performance from Wil Johnson as the put-upon head of the titular cab station
November 2021
Black talent takes centre stage at Lyric Hammersmith theatre
Festival to celebrate black culture and creativity, with Lemn Sissay and Shingai as headline acts
July 2021
Lockdown culture
Last Easter review – a lovable drama about life, death and theatre
Bryony Lavery’s play, revived by director Tinuke Craig, celebrates friendship with truths, humour and good punchlines
November 2020
Crave review – Kane's bleak poetry is as potent as ever in taut production
Director Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane’s one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair
November 2019
Cinderella review – woke meets trad at pop panto
Prince Charming? You must be joking – but this show will still leave families and festive fun-seekers satisfied
October 2019
Vassa review – revolutionary attack on moribund politics
Tinuke Craig on capitalist families, panto and The Color Purple casting row
