Theatre
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Gary McNair has created a show using verbatim testimonies from hundreds of interviewees to reveal the prevalence of a hidden, misogynistic male language
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Dr Victoria Frankenstein is the gender-switched, life-creating star of Lorne Campbell’s radical and illuminating gothic reboot
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Exquisite torture and infinite complexity are wrung from three performers, six words and a scenario repeated like a demented Groundhog Day
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Kate O’Flynn is outstanding as Laura in John Tiffany’s beautiful staging of Tennessee Williams’s classic
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Debate over bias towards actors from a privileged background persists as London rolls out the red carpet
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Privilege is playing too great a role in the arts
Gloria De Piero and Tracy Brabin
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Playwright Michelle Law talks about her ‘dark family comedy’ and about her struggle to engage with a predominantly white theatre scene
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Lalita Carlton-Jones writes: In 1982 the Mermaid theatre in London staged The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
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He’s played Sam Cooke, an EastEnders bad boy and a closeted footballer in The Pass. Now, Arinzé Kene has returned to writing plays – and to the violent summer of 2011 – with a searing account of escalating tension in London
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Updated to a minimalist live/work space full of digital sound manipulation, Sam Pritchard’s production plays on the pain of judging people by how they speak
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With performing arts workers twice as likely to attempt suicide than those in other industries, 90 arts organisations have joined forces in Victoria for an industry-first initiative to support them
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A black dancer meets police prejudice and industry stereotyping as she bids to make it on Broadway in a lively, inventive story
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Green is to play Woolf and Arterton is cast as Vita Sackville-West in Vita & Virginia, a film about the writers’ years-long relationship
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Purni Morell directs a lush production of Ignace Cornelissen’s drama about a prince who is under pressure to remarry after his bride goes missing
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A gang of emerging outfits – including Silent Uproar and Middle Child – hit the road to reveal the Yorkshire city’s buoyant theatre scene
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Burnley is a forgotten battleground for lesbian and gay rights, says playwright-in-residence for LGBT History Month
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Alex MacKeith’s debut play deals with the nuts and bolts of a test-driven education system and acts as a metaphor for other hard-pressed professions
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Titas Halder’s strange one-man play, starring Ben Aldridge, looks to the urban fox to illustrate a life in free-fall
Blues for an Alabama Sky review – riveting picture of 1930s Harlem