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Atiha Sen Gupta is the playwright for today

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21-year-old Atiha Sen Gupta is one of a new generation of writers who are putting the most vexed contemporary issues centre stage.... more

Banal menace of prison conveyed in Category B

13.10.09
If Category B is a drama with few real surprises, that's because Roy Williams is taking aim at the tyranny of the inevitable.... more

The Tricycle tackles multicultural London

29.09.09
The Tricycle’s artistic director Nicolas Kent aims to take the temperature of multicultural London in the Not Black and White season... more

Young Londoner wins theatre cash

23.09.09
Young London playwright tackling issues of female Muslim identity shared in a £50,000 fund to encourage creative entrepreneurs... more

Tricycle puts black writers centre stage

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A London theatre is to host its first 'black only' season... more

The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist

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Co-stars in contest for best actress at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

07.11.08
Comedy co-stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack will go head to head for honours at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Heavyweights of the stage battle for best actor prize

04.11.08
Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

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08.10.08
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more

How the Bard is brought to Basra

19.03.08
A shocking and engaging production, Roy Williams's Days of Significance, delivers a brave perspective on Britain's engagement in Iraq.... more

Forcing the binge issue

11.03.08
Confrontational playwright Roy Williams talks about his new play, Days Of Significance, which takes a hard look at the faults of modern-day Britain.... more

So Solid star set for Royal Court

11.03.08
Former So Solid Crew rapper Ashley Walters is to make his Royal Court debut in a new play called Oxford Street.... more

Teenagers never had it so good

03.03.08
Ragged at the edges but also vibrant, insightful and often hilarious, the National's Cottesloe is staging three plays written for teenagers.... more

Tricycle opens RSC Season

13.02.08
The Tricycle's RSC season opens with I'll Be the Devil, a new play about the lasting effects of occupation on war-torn Ireland.... more

Footballer's fall from grace

30.10.07
Joe Guy has a disappointing, sometimes rambling narrative that succumbs to sentimentality and even sympathises with its black football hero.... more

The RSC comes full circle

27.06.07
The Royal Shakespeare Company is returning to the revamped Roundhouse theatre five years after a disastrous season at the venue... more

Attenborough shaking up Almeida audience

15.05.07
The Islington theatre has always been a magnet for the chattering classes, but director Michael Attenborough is aiming his latest production at a new public.... more

Teds, teens, and riots. It's London for Beginners

04.05.07
Roy Williams' valiant attempt to adapt classic 1950s novel Absolute Beginners cannot disguise the fact that it remains resistant to theatrical treatment, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Absolute Beginners grow up

24.04.07
A new stage adaptation of the 1958 cult novel puts back what the sanitised film version left out, says director Liam Steel - all the sex, race and rock'n'roll. ... more

Courting controversy

06.02.07
The Royal Court should provoke, says its new director Dominic Cooke in his first interview, and he plans to do just that.... more

Brutality and beer with Basra boys

17.01.07
Nicholas de Jongh finds much to admire in Days Of Significance, an Asbo England take on Much Ado About Nothing, which includes fallout from the Iraq war.... more

Much ado about Iraq

09.01.07
Roy Williams's new play takes its inspiration from the Bard and adds binge-drinking and Basra to the mix. 'I wanted to capture a violent city atmosphere,' he says.... more

Tuning in to old-fashioned virtues

12.09.06
You might have thought from the thumping bass and the youthful crowd that Levi David Addai's 93.2 FM was going to be a little raw and edgy. In fact, it is perfectly pleasant.... more

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