Pleasance Dome, EdinburghMiguel Hernando Torres Umba takes us into Colombia's heart of darkness to reveal the human cost of the west's most popular illegal drugOne-person shows that have bot…
Seven years after its 2011 Atlanta premiere, Bring It On: The Musical uses the wonderfully ridiculous world of competitive cheerleading to tell
Home, Manchester Michael Ajao and Valentine Olukoga deliver humour and heartache in this cleverly adapted Chigozie Obioma story of Nigerian childhoodBased on Chigozie Obioma's Man Booker pri…
Once a maker of corporate videos, now a Bafta-winning writer, Patel is about to stage two new plays " one a three-hour historical epic, the other about the changing nature of offensivenessDi…
Following one couple over the course of a wine-fuelled night, The One is a punch of a play that places humour and
NST City, SouthamptonGbolahan Obisesan's retelling of a disaster in which more than 600 South Africans died is poignantly beautiful and sharply angryZamile Gantana takes a crate, sits in the…
After making her debut at the Royal Court with the acclaimed Lela and Co in 2015 and winning the 2017 Pinter Commission,
Park theatre, London In Alan Bowne's play, an allegory exploring New York's 1980s Aids crisis, a couple meet in secretAn unnamed plague has hit New York. The virus is spread through sexual c…
Anna Deavere Smith interviewed hundreds about the USA's school-to-prison pipeline"the fact Latino, Native and African American people are vastly overrepresented in the
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, adapted deftly by Rotimi Babatunde from Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel, is an acutely funny piece
Nottingham PlayhouseMufaro Makubika's play about Jamaican migrants focuses on the days leading up to a race riot in Nottingham in the 1950sShebeen is one of a few dramas about the lives of B…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThis erratic tragicomedy is played for laughs in a Barrie Rutter production that keeps its cast busy to the lastMichelle Terry's opening season at the Globe contin…
Michelle Terry is kicking off her debut season by playing Hamlet in a daring double bill that gives everyone a say about everything. Can this heresy work? We find out at rehearsalsTwo weeks …
This year, Black Panther put afrofuturism in multiplexes " and there are plenty more artists of colour exploring inner and outer space, like artist and playwright Rachael YoungMore than ever…
Bridget Minamore writes on Natasha Gordon's debut play, an emotive, truthful exploration of black grief. The post Review: Nine Night at the National Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
It's said a good piece of theatre begins as late and ends as early as possible in the framework of a story.
The anti-black racism of modern day white America can take many forms. Joel Drake Johnson's Rasheeda Speaking, coming to London after runs
Sherman theatre, Cardiff Engaging and politically astute, Brad Birch's play about partners revisiting their past packs a punchTremor rests on a premise that audiences likely will have seen b…
Plays that explore life from the point of view of women of colour are few and far between. It’s a shame, then,
Company Three devised a play to examine intimacy, relationships and social pressure for young people, from their own point of viewPutting teenage life on stage can be tricky, particularly wh…
Colour-blind casting " that is the casting of people of colour in roles that would typically have been played by white actors
Recently seen in the West End’s Girl from the North Country, the versatile actor and writer is now starring in his self-written
Theatre 503, LondonA militant teenager grapples with politics and older relatives in Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's profound, beautifully staged playWhat is it like for young black children to…
Tara theatre, LondonMarivaux's French nobles become suburban British Asians in a pacy but unconvincing update of the romantic comedyPierre de Marivaux's 1730 play The Game of Love and Chance…
Young Vic, LondonBijan Sheibani's revival of Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney's family drama brilliantly explores the complexities of brotherhoodIn the decade since The Brothers Size p…