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Double acts 'That is our job in theatre – I'm gonna make you love me!' Noma Dumezweni meets Harriet Walter

The stars of stage and screen chat about playing witches, seeing ghosts and stepping into another legend’s shoes

Published: 23 Feb 2021

Hold the stage: Ellie Kurttz's intimate shots of actors in lockdown – in pictures

Throughout theatre’s shutdown, photographer Kurttz has been taking portraits of creatives remotely, capturing images from video calls. Portraits in Isolation is her document of this time, collaborating with each sitter

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Published: 2 Jun 2020

RSVP Nina Simone and Shamima Begum: a dinner party for our times

In Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls, five famous women from history gather for a dinner party. Who would today’s big names in theatre invite?

Published: 24 Mar 2019

Shakespeare's Titania: from Gwendoline Christie to Judi Dench – in pictures

Game of Thrones star Christie is the latest actor to be cast as the fairy queen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is coming to the Bridge theatre in London etc etc. Here are some of the other top Titanias in whose footsteps she follows

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Published: 22 Feb 2019

British theatre stars storm the nominations for 2018 Tony awards

Angels in America and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are in the running for prizes at New York’s theatre ceremony

Published: 1 May 2018

'You try to escape with a modicum of dignity': actors on their best and worst auditions

From a ‘cattle market’ Inbetweeners casting to a nightmare meeting with the Coens, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Don Warrington and others recall their nailbiting experiences

Published: 19 Mar 2018

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Emma Watson praises Noma Dumezweni's Hermione

‘Meeting Noma was like meeting my older self,’ says the actor after seeing JK Rowling’s stage play in London’s West End

Published: 8 Jul 2016

4 out of 5 stars.

I See You review – disturbingly plausible
4 out of 5 stars.

The complexities of post-apartheid South Africa are powerfully portrayed in Mongiwekhaya’s fine thriller

Published: 13 Mar 2016

Noma Dumezweni on playing Hermione in Harry Potter: 'we all aspire to be her'

She was a last-minute lead in the three-hour Linda and will play JK Rowling’s grown-up Hermione Granger in the West End. Now Noma Dumezweni is making her directorial debut with the thriller I See You at the Royal Court

Published: 26 Feb 2016
Theatre blog Plan your week's theatre: top tickets

Noma Dumezweni directs I See You at the Royal Court, Dominic Dromgoole presents his Globe swansong and Standby for Tape Back-Up is out on tour

Published: 22 Feb 2016

Children's books Hermione is not black, but she's not white either...

It wasn’t until the films that the image of each of these characters solidified in people’s minds as a certain race or ethnicity, and that, argues site member Hawwa, is why some people are now so astounded at the casting of Noma Dumezweni to play Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. If you can only relate to a character because they look exactly like you, that doesn’t mean much…

Published: 23 Dec 2015
Shortcuts Can Hermione be black? What a stupid question

Black actor Noma Dumezweni has been cast as Hogwarts’ brainiest pupil in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The decision is a welcome challenge to the assumption that heroes are white by default

Published: 21 Dec 2015
JK Rowling 'loves black Hermione' casting of Noma Dumezweni

Author tweeted approval of casting actor with South African heritage in London stage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Published: 21 Dec 2015
Noma Dumezweni cast as Hermione in new Harry Potter stage play

Actor, of South African heritage, to play adult Hermione in London West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Published: 20 Dec 2015

Kim Cattrall pulls out of London play on doctors' advice

Sex and the City star’s role in Royal Court’s production of Linda taken on by Olivier award-winner Noma Dumezweni

Published: 19 Nov 2015