Today in our latest post-show discussion, editor @hollywilliams.bsky.social talks to playwright Anya Reiss about her new version of A Doll’s House at the Almeida, dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins: mining finance bros for insights, writing for her friend Romola Garai, and her decisions to deviate...
Really looking forward to seeing Philippe Quesne's Farm Fatale in London next month! Here's an "interview" with Quesne by Maddy Costa in @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social that explains why.
A treat for all readers today: ahead of his ecological scarecrow commune show Farm Fatale opening at Southbank Centre next month, Maddy Costa pieces together Philippe Quesne’s work via imagined dialogue...
Can making a show based on a traumatic experience be a part of the healing process? Even if it also aggravates it? Together with her own onstage persona, Claudia Shnier evaluates how she's found putting together and remounting her show Split Ends, which tours nationally from this week.
Our editor Holly Williams sits down with playwright Kimberly Belflower to unpack her smash hit John Proctor is the Villain: transferring from Broadway, this new young cast, cultural differences, and the weirdness and wildness of teenage girls. For paid subscribers and with a preview for all:
I clearly drew the short straw in the Exeunt reviews round-up: National Theatre special, covering The Authenticator, which I found naff, muddled and misleadingly marketed
Our critics Alexander Cohen, Matt Barton and Cindy Marcolina take the temperature of the National Theatre’s current slate of shows in our latest review round-up: Summerfolk, The Authenticator, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
James Acaster -> Craig Simons -> James Acaster. What's not to get? Isobel Lewis explores the comedian's new metatheatrical self-titled show, an antagonistic tribute act getting at identity, truth and self-mining for content, and fame.
This is fascinating. Not sure if this was covered after the paywall but the 'band stories' hype isn't unique to theatre – films like Bohemian Rhapsody, books like Daisy Jones & The Six – could be one big pop culture melting pot where each sector takes cues from what's done well in the other?
Correction: it has not been a century since Teeth 'n' Smiles premiered though time continues on apace
AHAHA sorry to David Hare! A vampire playwright?
Something's been gestating. Maddy Costa speaks to Krishna Istha and his mum and costar Geeta Shankar about Second Trimester which opens at Battersea Arts Centre next month, Krishna's journey to parenthood, what the two share and what they've had to learn about each other. Free for all to read now!
Our editor Holly Williams tries to locate Self Esteem’s performance in this new production of David Hare’s play, a century after it debuted, and asks what’s it all about with these band beef musicals - we’re looking at you, Stereophonic - jukebox or otherwise? For paid subscribers, but take a peek!
JN Benjamin caught up with director of Deep Azure, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, for a roving and thoughtful post-show discussion: on Chadwick Boseman’s use of the ensemble, spirituality and ritual, and why he chose to bring this epic to Shakespeare’s Globe. Free to read for all now!
Quarantine's takeover of Battersea Arts Centre puts a frame around the world's activity and chaos, Maddy Costa writes. From BAC’s balcony to the streets and shops of Wandsworth, the shows bring us up against the romance and reality of community, of what 'normal theatre' and 'normal people' are.
A Tuesday morning prick up your ears treat, this one. Anna Wood on the requests made of sound designers, the pressures on them, and the difficulty of saying what we hear to each other. When’s the time for naturalism, and when’s the time for something else?
In the latest edition of our reviews round-up, @matt-barton.bsky.social on Broken Glass, Maddy Costa on Nine Sixteenth, @miriamsallon.bsky.social on The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin, and @emilyjupp.bsky.social on It Walks Around The House At Night... subscribe to read in full/peek here!
Half of the theatre industry's workforce will go through the menopause - so why don't we talk about what that's really like?
Writing the r(Age) recently launched a series of resources to help writers - and those who work with them - understand the impact of peri/menopause
This week free for everyone to read, Maddy Costa crafts a conversation from the thoughts of past and current board members of the @dramaturgsnetwork.bsky.social, celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary this year. How has the field changed, and what places is it going?
'You will always be a moron to these middle-class theatre makers': Beatbox Academy founder Conrad Murray on why we need more working-class artists
Exeunt writers review recent shows at Soho Theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Bolton Octagon and the London Coliseum
“In 2026 don’t be mistaken that we need radical, angry, nuanced, and wild work more than ever”
When theatre PR Miriam Attwood heard that Busty Beatz had cancer, she knew she needed to honour her – as a client, a friend, and an inspiration
Great to chat to two of the brilliant minds behind Imitating the Dog – the OGs of live camerawork on stage – about their (underrated, imho) new War of the Worlds adaptation and what they think about their imitators: Jamie Lloyd, Kip Williams, Katie Mitchell et al
Before there was Jamie Lloyd, Katie Mitchell or Kip Williams… there was Imitating the Dog, who 28 years ago pioneered the use of film in theatre
In the latest in our series where writers talk to creatives *after* actually seeing their work, Matt Barton gets stuck in with Pete Brook and Andrew Quick
Robert Softley Gale on Birds of Paradise's new play, (We indulge in) a bit of roll play - which stars Ed Larkin and Rosie Jones in a story of disabled desire and pleasure, and disabled rage
Today, we have a really stunning essay by Tim Bano on Tom Stoppard - and about resisting the lure of biography (Tim’s as well as Tom’s) when writing about the playwright who changed his life
Delighted to have Sam Butler and David Harradine sharing their beautiful reflections of three decades of making work together - navigating a changing industry, a changing world, grief, and friendship
In our latest fabulous instalment of Frank Goes to Hollywood, Frank Peschier shares her thoughts on 2014's Into The Woods starring James Corden as well as the Bridge Theatre's current production. Sondheim lovers and detractors alike: is it worth going Into The Woods?
