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‘Each shot feels like a private performance’: Rene Matić, the Turner shortlist’s only photographer

Arcadia Missa, LondonIn a deeply personal show called Idols Lovers Mothers Friends, we see the artist’s inner circle – but there are delightful tangents, too, including figurines by the patron saint of mixed-race people

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

Overflow: this trans monologue set in a women’s bathroom has critics raving

After an acclaimed 2022 run, British playwright Travis Alabanza’s funny and heartbreaking dissection of transphobia in public spaces is back in Australia

The Guardian - AU · Jan 23, 2024

The best photography shows of 2023

Childhood memories generated by AI, photographic activism and prize-winning magical realism were among the standout exhibitions of the year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 24, 2023

The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review

Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest

The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2023

‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage

Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2023

The week in theatre: Sound of the Underground; Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons – review

Travis Alabanza and friends joyously return drag to its radical roots, while Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman keep it brief in Sam Steiner’s social media allegory

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2023

Travis Alabanza on Sound of the Underground: ‘Who can make a show about money fun? Only drag performers’

The trans, non-binary artist talks about workers rights for cabaret performers and how the commercialisation of drag means it has gone from a ‘communal space to one of competition’

Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023

The rising stars of stage and screen 2023

Keep an eye out for these about-to-be-famous faces

Evening Standard · Jan 9, 2023

The best London theatre shows to book in 2023 from Groundhog Day to Cheryl in 2:22

The pick of productions coming to London this year

Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2023

What one change would you make to achieve black equality in Britain? Our panel writes

Updating the school curriculum, creating an anti-racist politics … there is a pathway to a fairer and more equal society, say Lenny Henry, Diane Abbott and others

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2022