Dennis Kelly

The best theatre to stream this month: Macbeth, Life of Pi, Playhouse Creatures and more

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s highlights

Chris Wiegand

01, Apr, 2025 @5:00 AM

Girls and Boys review – a devastating portrait of motherhood, marriage and violence

Aisling Loftus brings out the unease underlying every scene of Dennis Kelly’s haunting one-woman play

Emma John

14, Feb, 2025 @12:32 PM

‘She took it as a personal affront that people didn’t like her!’ What it’s like when your TV show gets canned

From feelings of grim acceptance to those who felt they’d totally lost their compass, writers open up on what it’s like to have your television series cancelled

Rachael Sigee

31, Dec, 2024 @4:00 PM

‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough

From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets

Interviews by Mark Fisher

19, Aug, 2024 @4:00 AM

After the End review – violence, comedy and cliches in Dennis Kelly’s nuclear bunker

This dated two-hander about colleagues cowering in the wake of an explosion creates all-too-familiar disgust and fear

Miriam Gillinson

03, Mar, 2022 @3:00 PM

The 50 best TV shows of 2021

The great telly countdown hits the top spot with a furiously joyful, gut-wrenching five-part drama that was funny and full of life

22, Dec, 2021 @6:03 AM

‘It had to be dark’ – how we made Matilda the Musical

‘We didn’t give Matilda any songs because she was shy. Then we realised: it’s a fricking musical – the protagonist needs to sing!

Interviews by Chris Wiegand

08, Nov, 2021 @3:00 PM

The week in TV: Together; GB News; Horizon Special: The Vaccine; We Are Lady Parts

A talent-packed BBC drama was more letdown than lockdown, while Channel 4’s punk comedy was a delight

Barbara Ellen

20, Jun, 2021 @8:30 AM

Jude Law: 'When I became a parent, I would cry at anything'

As he plays a troubled dad trapped on a sinister island in The Third Day, the star reveals how the drama unlocked his deepest parenting fears – and shares his worries about its 12-hour, live-action section

Emine Saner

07, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM

The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century

A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000

Michael Billington, Alexis Soloski, Catherine Love, Mark Fisher and Chris Wiegand

17, Sep, 2019 @2:43 PM

Dennis Kelly on Girls and Boys: 'I was shocked Carey Mulligan did it'

The Matilda playwright has written a shattering solo drama that he didn’t think his star would read. He talks about fear, masculinity and burying secrets

Lyn Gardner

22, Feb, 2018 @2:37 PM