#royalcourttheatre — Public Fediverse posts

Blood of My Blood review – gripping ghost story is a reckoning with slavery
By Arifa Akbar

Royal Court theatre, LondonA Black British woman traces her family’s enslaved past in Joy Nesbitt’s supernaturally charged play

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/10/blood-of-my-blood-review-royal-court-theatre-london

#Theatre #Stage #Culture #RoyalCourttheatre #Slavery #TheGuardian #ArifaAkbar

Anthony Page obituary
By Michael Coveney

Influential director for stage and screen who was behind landmark productions of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Edward Albee

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/18/anthony-page-obituary

#Theatre #RoyalCourttheatre #Stage #UKnews #Culture #TheGuardian #MichaelCoveney

The play that changed my life: ‘Grime was ostracised but the Royal Court saw it as an art form – and made me a better MC’
By Jammz

Poet in da Corner by Debris Stevenson revealed that acting in a theatre can have a lot in common with MCing in a club

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/16/the-play-that-changed-my-life-poet-in-da-corner-grime-jammz-debris-stevenson

#Stage #Culture #RoyalCourttheatre #Theatre #Grime #Music #Hiphop #Acting #BlackBritishculture #TheGuardian #Jammz

‘Female survival in a terrifying world’: Tilda Swinton’s return in Man to Man
By Stephen Unwin

Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided culture

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/10/man-to-man-tilda-swinton-royal-court-manfred-karge

#Theatre #Stage #Culture #RoyalCourttheatre #TildaSwinton #Traversetheatre #Germany #Europe #Film #BunnyChristie #TheGuardian #StephenUnwin

Tilda Swinton’s blast from the past, Kevin Bridges at large and a deepfake ballet: theatre, comedy and dance to see this autumn
By Theatre picks Arifa Akbar. Comedy picks Brian Logan. Dance picks Lyndsey Winship

Swinton takes a dead man’s identity, Glasgow’s heir to Billy Connolly heads on tour and Gillian Anderson, Keira Knightley and Natalia Osipova all hit the stage• See all of our unmissable autumn arts recommendations here

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2026/aug/31/plays-shows-and-dance-this-autumn

#Stage #Theatre #Comedy #Dance #Comedy #Culture #TildaSwinton #RoyalCourttheatre #WestEnd #JamesGraham #GillianAnderson #KeiraKnightley #SimonRussellBeale #RoyalShakespeareCompany #DavidThrelfall #RoyalExchange #InuaEllams #Shermantheatre #AhirShah #KevinBridges #Ballet #EnglishNationalBallet #BenDuke #Hamlet #TheGuardian #TheatrepicksArifaAkbarComedypicksBrianLoganDancepicksLyndseyWinship

Tom Chadbon obituary
By Toby Hadoke

Versatile actor whose career spanned The Liver Birds, Doctor Who and an Edward Bond season at the Royal Court theatre

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/09/tom-chadbon-obituary

#Theatre #Stage #RoyalCourttheatre #Television #Televisionradio #DoctorWho #GameofThrones #Culture #TheGuardian #TobyHadoke

Peter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary lives into extraordinary drama, dies aged 86 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/04/peter-gill-playwright-dies #PeterGill #Stage #Culture #Theatre #UkNews #RoyalCourtTheatre #NationalTheatre

Gary Oldman Reveals What He Believes Is The Secret Behind The Success Of ‘Slow Horses’
#News #AppleTV #GaryOldman #RoyalCourtTheatre #SlowHorses #Theater

https://deadline.com/2025/10/gary-oldman-slow-horses-success-season-5-krapps-last-tape-1236602617/

Tilda Swinton & Gary Oldman Return To The London Stage To Celebrate The Royal Court Theatre’s 70th Anniversary
#News #GaryOldman #Krapp039sLastTape #ManToMan #RoyalCourtTheatre #TildaSwinton

https://deadline.com/2025/10/tilda-swinton-gary-oldman-royal-court-theatre-70-anniversary-1236599840/

John Lithgow’s ‘Giant’ Producers Brian & Dayna Lee Strike First-Look Deal With London’s Royal Court Theatre – Breaking Baz
#News #BrianLee #Broadway #DaynaLee #JohnLithgow #LondonTheater #RoyalCourtTheatre

https://deadline.com/2025/09/royal-court-theatre-brian-dayna-lee-giant-first-look-deal-1236555524/

This is how you make sure great work happens. You allow artists the space to create.
#theatrelife #theatre #royalcourttheatre

https://royalcourttheatre.com/playwriting/the-writers-card-it-starts-here/

‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking? https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/feb/19/plumbed-secret-shameful-depth-sarah-kanes-blasted #VickyFeatherstone #RoyalCourttheatre #SarahKane #Culture #Theatre #Stage

Keith Johnstone: you opened my eyes and I have taken everything I got from you into every project I’ve done since. Those of us who were lucky enough to know you, work with you and call you a friend are your legacy - and it will be carried forward.
You will be missed. #impro, #theatresports, #theatremachine, #royalcourttheatre, #mask

New review round up! Baghdaddy at the #RoyalCourtTheatre - https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2022/11/27/review-round-up-baghdaddy-royal-court-theatre/