David Eldridge
Beginning review – touching after-party tale of the last two left standing
David Eldridge’s insightful play about a pair of singletons sizing each other up at the end of the night is relocated for a funny and moving revival
Chris Wiegand
23, Feb, 2023 @8:00 AM
The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023
Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour
Arifa Akbar, Lyndsey Winship and Brian Logan
26, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more
The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them
Interviews by Dominic Dromgoole
26, Oct, 2022 @2:59 PM
The week in theatre: Middle; Prima Facie; Much Ado About Nothing
A couple struggle to connect – or touch – in David Eldridge’s latest; Jodie Comer owns the courtroom; and Lucy Bailey directs a sparkling new Much Ado
Susannah Clapp
08, May, 2022 @9:30 AM
Middle review – marital and midlife reckoning brings gags and gripes
Gentle comedy leavens David Eldridge’s sequel about a couple mired in the swamps of regrets and resentments
Arifa Akbar
05, May, 2022 @11:41 AM
Playwright David Eldridge: ‘What’s important to me is to move people’
The dramatist and West Ham fan on exploring what it means to be a couple in his trilogy of plays and how King Lear blew his mind
Rachel Cooke
01, May, 2022 @8:30 AM
‘It takes great courage to write that way’: David Eldridge on Robert Holman
Robert Holman, who has died aged 69, was committed to the notion of empathy in art and life, writes his friend and fellow playwright
David Eldridge
06, Dec, 2021 @12:22 PM
Robert Holman, ‘extraordinary and influential’ playwright, dies aged 69
Tributes paid to British dramatist acclaimed for works including German Skerries, Across Oka and A Breakfast of Eels
Chris Wiegand
04, Dec, 2021 @3:09 PM
A bunch of amateurs? Playwrights' astonishing am-dram experiences
David Eldridge, Simon Stephens and Alecky Blythe have all been moved by watching non-professional productions of their plays. They explain the appeal
Matt Trueman
28, Mar, 2018 @1:29 PM
Beginning review – sozzled loners seek a connection in the tech age
David Eldridge’s new play is a poignant real-time examination of relationships with two damaged people reaching out at the end of a party
Michael Billington
13, Oct, 2017 @2:55 PM
On my radar: Kwame Kwei-Armah
The actor, playwright and director on singing along to Dreamgirls, his Narcos obsession and getting into vegan food
Kathryn Bromwich
26, Mar, 2017 @9:00 AM
Beyond Blasted: how the 90s changed theatre in the UK
The decade is still associated with the ‘In-Yer-Face’ moniker but it brought us a thrilling variety of new writing and fresh, boundary-breaking styles of theatre
Lyn Gardner
31, Jan, 2017 @11:00 AM
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