tue 05/08/2025

aleks sierz

aleks.sierz's picture
Bio
Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre and Rewriting the Nation, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.

Articles By Aleks Sierz

Black Men Walking, Royal Court review - inspiring and exhilarating

Read more...

The Great Wave, National Theatre review - moving epic of global loss

Read more...

Humble Boy, Orange Tree Theatre review - love, death and science in Middle England

Read more...

The Best Man, Playhouse Theatre review - Gore Vidal’s plodding presidential drama

Read more...

Frozen, Haymarket Theatre review - star cast explores the reality of evil

Read more...

Angry, Southwark Playhouse review – wondrously roaring Ridleyland

Read more...

Girls & Boys, Royal Court review - Carey Mulligan is stunningly brilliant

Read more...

The Divide, Old Vic review - Alan Ayckbourn’s overblown dystopia

Read more...

Gundog, Royal Court review - tedious and inconsequential

Read more...

Paines Plough Roundabout, Orange Tree Theatre review - too brief to really rock

Read more...

The Believers Are But Brothers, Bush Theatre review - a gimmick in search of a story

Read more...

The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter Theatre review - starry cast create a stunning masterpiece

Read more...

The Jungle, Young Vic review - physically and emotionally challenging

Read more...

Parliament Square, Bush Theatre, review – uncomfortable blaze of anger

Read more...

Goats, Royal Court review - unfocused and muddled

Read more...

Bad Roads, Royal Court, review – memorably unsettling

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above

The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as...

Make It Happen, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review...

You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city’s Leith and...

Folkestone Triennial 2025 - landscape, seascape, art lovers...

A rare cloud form envelopes the headland and to the east and the west Folkestone is cut off from the known world. This mist shortens...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rhys Darby / Alex Stringer

Rhys Darby, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★

Rhys Darby, the New Zealand actor and...

Album: Molly Tuttle - So Long Little Miss Sunshine

Molly Tuttle is a star of the US bluegrass scene whose last couple of albums have broadened her appeal. On them she wandered into...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: I'm Ready To Talk Now /...

I’m Ready to Talk Now, Traverse Theatre ...

Music Reissues Weekly: Chip Shop Pop - The Sound of Denmark...

One of the more interesting tracks on Paul Weller’s fascinating new cover versions album Find El Dorado is his interpretation of “When...

theartsdesk at the Three Choirs Festival - Passion in the Ca...

“Powerful, Timeless, Inspiring” it says on the front cover of the programme-book for this year’s supposedly 297th Three Choirs Festival at...

Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House review - a dying ar...

Many readers and writers think of epistolary novels as old-fashioned, just as letter writing itself can seem a bit quaint nowadays. The genre...