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Andrea Dunbar's life story to be staged in Bradford pub

New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Published: 10 Dec 2018

After #MeToo 'Directors are no longer untouchable gods': transforming British theatre

The actors, directors and producers changing theatre

Published: 27 Jan 2018
Rita, Sue and #MeToo: 'There'd be outrage if it was written today'

Published: 17 Jan 2018
4 out of 5 stars.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too review – Dunbar's comedy bleaker than ever in #MeToo era
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 11 Jan 2018

Barney Norris: Theatre is still catching up with Max Stafford-Clark

As Stafford-Clark tours Rita, Sue and Bob Too with his company Out of Joint, his one-time assistant celebrates a career spent speaking up for the nation – and nurturing talents such as Andrea Dunbar and Caryl Churchill

Published: 11 Sep 2017

How we made How we made Rita, Sue and Bob Too

George Costigan: ‘I watched the premiere with my wife on one side of me – and my mother on the other’

Published: 26 Jun 2017

Magificent people like Matthew Evans are few and far between

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The former chairman of Faber & Faber was a loyal friend to those he published and a sworn enemy of boredom

Published: 9 Jul 2016

Published: 9 Jul 2016

Summer arts preview 2016 Curtain-raisers: the best theatre of summer 2016

Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there’s magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up – and Groundhog Day is reborn as a musical

Published: 2 May 2016

The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder

London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Hlcarpenter.com and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others

Published: 24 Mar 2016
Theatre blog Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets

Vanishing Point’s The Destroyed Room opens in Edinburgh, the Hear Me Roar! festival of feminism begins in Lancaster and Jinny, a response to Look Back in Anger, premieres in Derby

Published: 7 Mar 2016

'Her work haunts me': Caryl Churchill by those who have worked with her

Stephen Daldry, Max Stafford-Clark, Lyndsey Turner and Nikki Amuka-Bird on the challenges and triumphs that come with staging Churchill’s work

Published: 29 Jun 2015

Max Stafford-Clark: ‘We’ve played to the worst houses we’ve ever had’

With cuts in funding, safer programming, shrinking audiences, new writing is the first casualty in this vicious circle. The Out of Joint founder says something has to change

Published: 27 May 2015

Happy Days festival's Beckett treats to include a German Godot

Enniskillen hosts international interpretations of the playwright’s works – on land and in lakes, in caves and a castle, with premieres by Sophie Hunter, Adrian Dunbar and Max Stafford-Clark

Published: 15 Apr 2015

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