Why life as an outsider isn’t what it seems
Author claims East London is the outsider capital of London in book on non-conformism The Outside Edge
Freddie Machin
Rugby drama tells the story of a pioneer for sexual equality
Gareth Thomas’s battle for acceptance after coming out is the subject of Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage, opening next week at the Arcola
Hannah Moss: silent play is 'my way of saying goodbye’ after Dad's death
The death of her father and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five inspired Hannah Moss’s acclaimed play So it Goes
Antigone – stage review: new script makes for slanging mismatch
Roy Williams’ adaptation of Antigone at Stratford East places the play in a gangland setting
Kay Adshead: 'I never thought I would be seeing women shot in the street for wanting an education'
Playwright Kay Adshead talks about giving a generation of forgotten, ignored and deleted women protesters a voice in her play The Singing Stones
The Singing Stones – stage review: 'reflecting a familiar feeling of impotence'
The Singing Stones carries an important message about the plight of women during the Arab Spring but suffers from a lack of structure
The Realness review – musical tackles problems facing prison leavers
Energetic performances by a cast of care-leavers and ex-offenders make new musical The Realness a Christmas cracker
Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival launches
Titus Andronicus meets pie and mash and 1000 plays written in a shed are part of the first Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival
‘Dangerous? No. Hackney’s friendlier than a Google search suggests,’ says artist
Don’t believe what the internet throws up, suggests Sarah Pletts as she sets out her stall
Circle Mirror Transformation – review
Toby Jones and Imelda Staunton star in painfully honest play being staged at the Rose Lipman Building
Cult actor Toby Jones returns to Hackney for part in Royal Court production
Ahead of his appearance in play Circle Mirror Transformation at the Rose Lipman Building in Haggerston, performer tells the Citizen about transforming into ‘an ordinary person’
Open University’s ‘Creating Hackney as Home’ study puts actors centre stage
Academics team up with theatre group Immediate for roll-out of innovative urban geography scheme