After Independence: staging the politics of Zimbabwe
The complex power dynamics of Zimbabwe post-independence is the subject of a new play at the Arcola
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Another World, National Theatre, review: 'reminder how powerful a tool verbatim theatre can be'
Verbatim play tackles radicalisation and includes interviews with Muslim teenagers from East London
Boy, Almeida, review: 'a nightmare vision of consumerist Britain'
Innovative production brings Leo Butler’s stark vision of 21st century London to life in Boy at the Almeida
Crossing the divide – Spitalfields to see crowdfunded adaptation of Malorie Blackman classic
An extraordinary tale of social exclusion, terrorism and oppression, Noughts and Crosses has now been adapted for the stage. Its director Cheryl Walker talks about black representation and why her performers are “not just actors”
1972: The Future of Sex begins Shoreditch Town Hall run
A new comedy explores sexual anxiety and coming of age in the year of Ziggy Stardust and Mary Whitehouse
Playing a blinder – All That Fall preview
A one-act play for radio by Samuel Beckett is ingeniously staged at Wilton’s Music Hall
Wilde Wilde East – The Importance of Being Earnest comes to the Barbican
An operatic adaptation of one of the most celebrated comedies in the English language comes to the Barbican this month
Sheer Height redress the gender balance with new Arcola show
Fed up with the state of theatre for women, two friends founded their own company placing female characters centre stage
The Sissy’s Progress at Toynbee Studios: drama tackles prejudice head on
Performer Nando Messias returned to the site where he was attacked 10 years previously with a defiant new show about the experience
Park bench politics: Made Visible at the Yard Theatre
An encounter with two women in Victoria Park inspired Deborah Pearson’s play about race and identity
Mary Seacole brought to the stage at the Rosemary Branch
Theatre marks 20th anniversary with play about pioneering Jamaican nurse, starring its artistic director and former Rolling Stones collaborator Cleo Sylvestre
A Steady Rain, Arcola – review: two cops in an 'armpit of a place’
American police drama by Mad Men and House of Cards writer Keith Huff is compelling but plot veers too close to cliché
Family connection to Mayflower pilgrims inspires play
Don’t Waste Your Bullets on the Dead by Stoke Newington-based writer Freddie Machin premieres this month at Vault Festival
'The towers dominated the skyline': Beaumont Estate revisited in new play at The Yard
Based on interviews with former and current residents of a Leyton housing estate, Re: Home examines what our homes mean to us
Arcola Queer Collective: championing LGBT rights through theatre
On the eve of their adaptation of Le Petit Prince, director Rubyyy Jones talks about the state of queer theatre today – and how genuine equality is still a work in progress
Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: 'I think the fear of the outsider is still present'
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Ida returns to the Arcola with Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, a play about one of the last witch trials in England