The Latest Breaking News from Beth Steel

From the civil war to now, poverty endures

Letter: Samantha Brennan responds to an article by playwright Beth Steel and voices concern over the Dickensian conditions in her home town

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2025

I’m from an English working-class town. When will society stop looking at us through the rearview mirror?

The migration debate reflects deep uncertainties about the realities now facing these communities. That feels perilous to me, says playwright Beth Steel

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2025

Till the Stars Come Down at the Haymarket: uproariously fun and profoundly moving

4/5 Bijan Sheibani’s production of Beth Steel’s play has lost none of its power as it returns to the West End

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

Front row at the wedding from hell: a toast to theatre’s marital ding-dongs

Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2024

National Theatre in London to pilot earlier start times for evening shows

Midweek performances at the South Bank theatre will start at 6.30pm from February to allow more post-theatre socialising or earlier bedtimes

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2023

Shocking map reveals scale of cost of living catastrophe in Greater Manchester as families cry out for real rescue plan

The map has been published in the lead-up to Thursday's autumn statement

Manchester Evening News · Nov 14, 2022

In capturing the changing face of Britain, playwrights can explain us to ourselves

Beth Steel’s The House of Shades unites national politics and private lives through the fortunes of a working-class family from 1965 to 2019

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022

The week in theatre: The House of Shades; My Fair Lady; The Breach

Anne-Marie Duff’s aspiring singer transfixes in a didactic family saga; My Fair Lady feels strangely vacant. Plus, a stifling tale of dysfunctional siblings

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2022

The House of Shades review: Beth Steel’s epic working-class family drama is full of proper politics

Anne-Marie Duff is on spectacular form as the family matriarch in this century-spanning new play

The Independent UK · May 18, 2022

House of Shades at the Almeida review: A confused mix of family drama and political screed

A layered, expressive lead performance from Anne-Marie Duff can’t save this baggy production

Evening Standard · May 18, 2022