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Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End

Trio of plays by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2024

St. John’s Coach Rick Pitino Has One Suggestion for NCAA Tournament Selection Committee

Pitino offered a piece of advice to the March Madness selection committee.

Sports Illustrated · Mar 20, 2024

The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

Death of England: Closing Time at the National Theatre review – uniquely brilliant

Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Hayley Squires are riveting, creating a love-hate relationship that feels deep, detailed and combustively alive

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2023

Death of England: Closing Time review – riotous comedy with a serious sting

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2023

The Architect review – Stephen Lawrence tribute is a deeply moving ride

Set aboard a double-decker as it journeys through London and back and forth in time, this is a poignant but uplifting immersive theatre piece about race, the city, and the legacy of the Black teen murdered at a bus stop 30 years ago

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023

The Architect: ‘On the 30th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence’s murder our play has visions of a different city’

Theatremakers have come together to create a bus journey – taken in Stephen’s honour – that explores the rich potential of Black lives, hopes and dreams

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2023

Duke, UNC basketball navigate a new landscape, one year after epic Final Four meeting

Every epic game comes with a defining moment — if not more than one — and for the North Carolina-Duke NCAA Tournament national semifinal of a year ago, that moment remains clear enough. It will endure, even if almost nothing else about the photographs capturing it lasted all that much…

Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2023

Luke DeCock: Jim Larranaga, one of the last of the ACC’s living legends, enjoying Final Four moment

HOUSTON — In the 17 years that passed between Final Four appearances for Jim Larranaga, he changed schools (from George Mason to Miami), became a worse dancer (according to his players and his own self-appraisal), and lost none of the love for coaching he absorbed from Terry Holland.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023