April De Angelis

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review

Rose Ayling-Ellis stars in a fresh As You Like It; a Mandela musical can’t do the great man justice; and April De Angelis slips into two dimensions

Susannah Clapp

18, Dec, 2022 @10:30 AM

Kerry Jackson review – Fay Ripley’s lively striver is riddled with working-class cliches

April De Angelis’s comedy about a leave-voting entrepreneur in a gentrified area has echoes of Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita – except all the characters are reduced to types

Arifa Akbar

08, Dec, 2022 @1:29 PM

Gin Craze! review – raucous fun with a dark chaser

April De Angelis and Lucy Rivers bring 18th-century London to scabrous life in their boozy new musical satire

Clare Brennan

25, Jul, 2021 @10:00 AM

Gin Craze! review – a bawdy feminist history lesson with anarchic spirit

This rousing Gin Lane musical by April De Angelis and Lucy Rivers has working-class women at its heart

Arifa Akbar

22, Jul, 2021 @1:15 PM

The week in theatre: Constellations; Extinct review – the stars are aligned

The first two of four new casts work their magic differently in Nick Payne’s irresistible multiple realities play

Susannah Clapp

11, Jul, 2021 @9:30 AM

Extinct review – firenadoes, melting ice and one hour to halt apocalypse

Featuring plague and shootouts in M&S, XR supporter April De Angelis’s dystopic climate drama is a powerful, urgent polemic

Arifa Akbar

04, Jul, 2021 @12:04 PM

From Hamlet to Hullabaloo: what to see as theatres and comedy clubs reopen

As stage shows return, we pick the best post-lockdown offerings – featuring Egyptian gods, rebelling vicars, dancing youths ... and Ian McKellen playing the Dane at 82

Arifa Akbar (theatre), Brian Logan (comedy), Lyndsey Winship (dance)

16, May, 2021 @2:00 PM

Gin Craze: the moral panic about 'mother's ruin' still demonises women

Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a musical giving voice to the working-class women whose lives were changed by alcohol

April De Angelis

21, Dec, 2020 @6:00 AM

Hoard: Rediscovered review – treasure tales from Sara Pascoe, Isy Suttie and more

Staffordshire’s Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp

Arifa Akbar

18, Nov, 2020 @3:43 PM

Unprecedented review – making gripping drama out of corona crisis

Headlong’s superb series explores lockdown life, with a cast including Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Lennie James and Gemma Arterton

Arifa Akbar

26, May, 2020 @10:52 AM

'The audience booed, the cast fled' – playwrights relive their worst flops

Alan Ayckbourn’s orchestra decamped to the pub, Lynn Nottage’s social satire became all too real, and April De Angelis is still angry with her critics

Interviews by Kate Wyver

01, May, 2020 @2:43 PM