A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
February 2019
The week in theatre: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train; Shipwreck; Berberian Sound Studio – review
Shipwreck review – vital political drama takes Trump seriously
September 2018
'Nightmarish' Donald Trump comedy coming to London theatre
Almeida director Rupert Goold says Anne Washburn’s new play Shipwreck will ‘wrestle with what Trump is both politically and existentially’
December 2017
The Twilight Zone review – retro anxieties from another dimension
The supernatural stories of the mid-20th century TV show have lost some of their bite in adaptation, but none of their deadpan charm
The Twilight Zone review – a spooky ride into the supernatural
Anne Washburn has adapted the TV show for an inventive production featuring tales of vanishing children, amnesiac teachers and alien interlopers
'I challenge them to leave but force them to stay': playwrights on their audiences
Eight dramatists, including Lucy Prebble, Neil LaBute and Chris Goode, discuss how much they think about the people who will come and watch their work
November 2017
Anne Washburn on watching 156 Twilight Zone episodes for freaky remake
She has turned The Simpsons into a post-apocalyptic opera, invented her own language and put on a communist Dracula pageant. Now, the US playwright is staging the creepy, late-night TV classic that scarred her as a child
January 2017
What a night! Millennial playwrights pick this century's best shows
From the role-reversal minstrels in The Scottsboro Boys to a post-apocalyptic take on The Simpsons, rising dramatists choose the plays they can’t forget
September 2016
Australian theatre 2017 previewed: the pick of the season's crop
Not sure what to see at the theatre next year? Van Badham selects the most promising works, from experimental debuts to revivals of unbeatable classics
April 2016
Antlia Pneumatica review – tale of loss and friendship fails to provide a big bang
Anne Washburn’s constellation-referencing play provides moments to savor but ultimately leaves audiences hoping for what might have been
December 2015
Best culture 2015
Alexis Soloski's top 10 New York theatre of 2015
Radical hip-hop history, reinvented modern classics and emotive musicals led a wave of innovative and poignant plays on and off-Broadway
September 2015
Iphigenia in Aulis review – an epic reinvented in flowery festivalwear
Anne Washburn: the playwright rebooting the ancients – and the Simpsons
June 2015
10 out of 12 review – more than just an avant garde Noises Off
Taking place in rehearsals for an unnamed play, Anne Washburn’s engaging drama features a vexing actor, bizarre juxtapositions of sound and vision, and an unexpected poignancy
June 2014
From the Bard to Bart: how Mr Burns challenges our common culture
Mr Burns review – rebuilding the US on fragments of pop culture
May 2014
This week's new theatre
Pulse festival | Mr Burns | Skylight | La Tragédie Comique | The Last Train To Scarborough | 2's Company
June 2009
Theatre blog
Gender bias exists in the theatre, but not in the way you might think
Alexis Soloski: With male playwrights outnumbering their female counterparts on Broadway, is the 'old boys' club' still alive and well? Not so, according to a new study
April 2008
The Internationalist
A romance gets lost in translation in this crossword puzzle of a play, writes Lyn Gardner
