An encounter with two women in Victoria Park inspired Deborah Pearson’s play about race and identity
Theatre marks 20th anniversary with play about pioneering Jamaican nurse, starring its artistic director and former Rolling Stones collaborator Cleo Sylvestre
American police drama by Mad Men and House of Cards writer Keith Huff is compelling but plot veers too close to cliché
Don’t Waste Your Bullets on the Dead by Stoke Newington-based writer Freddie Machin premieres this month at Vault Festival
Based on interviews with former and current residents of a Leyton housing estate, Re: Home examines what our homes mean to us
On the eve of their adaptation of Le Petit Prince, director Rubyyy Jones talks about the state of queer theatre today – and how genuine equality is still a work in progress
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Ida returns to the Arcola with Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, a play about one of the last witch trials in England
#Haters is a story about community conflict based on a controversial incident at a Hackney pub last year
Visitors to Victoria Park’s winter town can immerse themselves in the delights of a Christmas pantomime
This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
