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Anne Washburn

September 2019

  • Jerusalem, Mr Burns and Barbershop Chronicles

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century

    A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000

February 2019

  • Sleaford Mods.

    The week in theatre: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train; Shipwreck; Berberian Sound Studio – review

  • Superman … Elliot Cowan, rear, as an overweening Trump and Khalid Abdalla in Shipwreck.

    Shipwreck review – vital political drama takes Trump seriously

September 2018

  • Donald Trump

    'Nightmarish' Donald Trump comedy coming to London theatre

    Almeida director Rupert Goold says Anne Washburn’s new play Shipwreck will ‘wrestle with what Trump is both politically and existentially’

December 2017

  • Lizzy Connolly and Matthew Needham in The Twilight Zone.

    The Twilight Zone review – retro anxieties from another dimension

    The supernatural stories of the mid-20th century TV show have lost some of their bite in adaptation, but none of their deadpan charm
  • Pointers to the paranormal … The Twilight Zone.

    The Twilight Zone review – a spooky ride into the supernatural

    Anne Washburn has adapted the TV show for an inventive production featuring tales of vanishing children, amnesiac teachers and alien interlopers
  • Anne Washburn, Katori Hall, Neil Labute and Lucy Prebble.

    'I challenge them to leave but force them to stay': playwrights on their audiences

    Eight dramatists, including Lucy Prebble, Neil LaBute and Chris Goode, discuss how much they think about the people who will come and watch their work

November 2017

  • Anne Washburn.

    Anne Washburn on watching 156 Twilight Zone episodes for freaky remake

    She has turned The Simpsons into a post-apocalyptic opera, invented her own language and put on a communist Dracula pageant. Now, the US playwright is staging the creepy, late-night TV classic that scarred her as a child

January 2017

  • Enron at the Minerva in Chichester in 2009.

    What a night! Millennial playwrights pick this century's best shows

    From the role-reversal minstrels in The Scottsboro Boys to a post-apocalyptic take on The Simpsons, rising dramatists choose the plays they can’t forget

September 2016

  • Heather Mitchell in Sydney Theatre Company's 2017 production of Away

    Australian theatre 2017 previewed: the pick of the season's crop

    Not sure what to see at the theatre next year? Van Badham selects the most promising works, from experimental debuts to revivals of unbeatable classics

April 2016

  • ANTLIA PNEUMATICA PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS/PETER JAY SHARP THEATER 416 WEST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK Cast: Rob Campbell, Nat DeWolf, Crystal Finn, April Matthis, Annie Parisse, Maria Striar, Skylar Dunn, Azhy Robertson. Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.

    Antlia Pneumatica review – tale of loss and friendship fails to provide a big bang

    Anne Washburn’s constellation-referencing play provides moments to savor but ultimately leaves audiences hoping for what might have been

December 2015

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton

    Best culture 2015
    Alexis Soloski's top 10 New York theatre of 2015

    Radical hip-hop history, reinvented modern classics and emotive musicals led a wave of innovative and poignant plays on and off-Broadway

September 2015

  • Iphigenia in Aulis

    Iphigenia in Aulis review – an epic reinvented in flowery festivalwear

  • Wunmi Mosaku (Quincy), centre, in Mr Burns by Anne Washburn, at the Almeida in London – a show that divided opinion.

    Anne Washburn: the playwright rebooting the ancients – and the Simpsons

June 2015

  • 10 out of 12

    10 out of 12 review – more than just an avant garde Noises Off

    Taking place in rehearsals for an unnamed play, Anne Washburn’s engaging drama features a vexing actor, bizarre juxtapositions of sound and vision, and an unexpected poignancy

June 2014

  • Mr Burns

    From the Bard to Bart: how Mr Burns challenges our common culture

  • cast of Mr Burns on stage

    Mr Burns review – rebuilding the US on fragments of pop culture

May 2014

  • pulse festival

    This week's new theatre

    Pulse festival | Mr Burns | Skylight | La Tragédie Comique | The Last Train To Scarborough | 2's Company

June 2009

  • Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning Ruined

    Theatre blog
    Gender bias exists in the theatre, but not in the way you might think

    Alexis Soloski: With male playwrights outnumbering their female counterparts on Broadway, is the 'old boys' club' still alive and well? Not so, according to a new study

April 2008

  • The Internationalist

    A romance gets lost in translation in this crossword puzzle of a play, writes Lyn Gardner

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