Video: Watch the Trailer For SLEEPOVA at Olney Theatre Center
by Michael Major - Apr 3, 2025
This London hit makes its U.S. Premiere in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab! Whether or not sleepover parties with friends were part of your upbringing, you’re invited to join Elle, Shan, Funmi, and Rey at theirs. Watch the trailer video!
Bush Theatre Reveals New Artistic Director and Co-CEO
by Stephi Wild - Mar 6, 2025
The Bush Theatre trustees have appointed Taio Lawson as the theatre's new Artistic Director and Co-CEO. Taio joins the company in Summer 2025 and will oversee the final season of plays programmed by Lynette Linton, who leaves in March 2025.
Review: ALTERATIONS, National Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 28, 2025
Michael Abbensetts was the first Black writer to have a series commissioned by the BBC: the groundbreaking Empire Road, which had an almost entirely Black cast and crew. The Guyanese writer's work has been largely forgotten, so it seems appropriate that the National Theatre, with its important Black Plays Archive, has chosen to stage his play Alterations, not seen since 1978.
SLEEPOVA Makes U.S. Premiere at Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - Feb 19, 2025
Olney Theatre Center will produce the U.S. Premiere of Sleepova in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The play arrives in the DMV having won the 2024 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
Photos: In Rehearsal for ALTERATIONS At The National Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 30, 2025
The National Theatre has released first look rehearsal photos for Bush Theatre Artistic Director Lynette Linton’s (Blues for an Alabama Sky, Shifters) revival of award-winning Guyana-born British writer Michael Abbensetts’ (Sweet Talk, Empire Road) era-defining comedy Alterations.
Review Roundup: Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte Open in BARCELONA
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 31, 2024
Late night in Barcelona. An American tourist goes home with a handsome Spaniard. What begins as a carefree, one-night stand becomes an invitation to danger, as the personal and political catastrophically intertwine. See what critics thought about the new West End Play.
Review: BARCELONA, Duke of York's Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 31, 2024
A couple crash through the door of a Barcelona apartment in a passionate embrace, but this ardour quickly cools as cultural and personal clashes take over. Collins and Morte are both impressively natural on stage, but without their billing, it is highly doubtful this play would have made it to the West End.
Photos: Further Look at Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte in BARCELONA
by Stephi Wild - Oct 29, 2024
Further production photos have been released for Barcelona, starring Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte as they have swapped the big screen for the West End in the UK premiere of Bess Wohl’s explosive two-hander play Barcelona. Check out the photos here!
Photos: Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte in BARCELONA
by Stephi Wild - Oct 25, 2024
Production photos have been released of Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte in the UK premiere of Bess Wohl’s play Barcelona. Directed by Lynette Linton (Shifters, Sweat, Blues for An Alabama Sky), the play is currently running for a strictly limited 12 week season. Check out the photos here!