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Bridget Minamore

Bridget Minamore is a poet, critic and journalist who writes about theatre and pop culture. Her first pamphlet, Titanicwas published in May 2016

February 2020

  • Jumoké Fashola, Cherrelle Skeete, Ibinabo Jack, David Webber and Stefan Adegbola star in The High Table.

    Trailblazing drama The High Table: 'Queer or not, we all come out in some way'

    Actor Cherrelle Skeete wept with joy when she read Temi Wilkey’s debut play, which explores queerness and homophobia in the black community

January 2020

  • Actor Gary Beadle in the Boulevard Theatre restaurant, Soho

    Gary Beadle: how I took on the curse of EastEnders – and won

    Albert Square’s bad boy was told leaving would end his career. But he has no regrets. He relives his journey from Bugsy Malone to existential Cormac McCarthy play

December 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock, Lucian Msamati rehearsing Master Harold and the Boys, Funeral Flowers by Emma Dennis-Edwards, and director Justin Audibert.

    Better, bolder, further to go: the decade in black British theatre

  • ‘The play reaches beyond an African-American experience’ … Nadia Latif, left, and Jackie Sibblies Drury.

    Fairview: the Pulitzer winner whose creator hopes it has a short shelf life

October 2019

  • Tinuke Craig in rehearsals for Vassa.

    Tinuke Craig on capitalist families, panto and The Color Purple casting row

  • Anna Jordan and Chris Sonnex, the writer and director of We Anchor in Hope, at the Bunker, London.

    Get 'em in! … why traditional working-class pubs make great drama

September 2019

  • Gbolahan Obisesan

    Gbolahan Obisesan: 'You have to give the story to the people'

    The in-demand actor, writer and director talks about staging The Last King of Scotland, representing inner-city London and what he learned from Millwall supporters

July 2019

  • Sheila Atim.

    Sheila Atim's Cleopatra show: 'I'm not freaking out! I won't hang up!'

    Soon to star in the Game of Thrones prequel, the Olivier-winning actor presents Anguis at the Edinburgh fringe

June 2019

  • ‘Let’s do this’ … Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah.

    Idris Elba meets Kwame Kwei-Armah: 'I feel a massive connection with trees'

  • Bryony Kimmings in I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

    Edinburgh fringe 2019: 10 essential shows

May 2019

  • Femi Elufowoju Jr

    Femi Elufowoju Jr: Why did Tennessee Williams marginalise African Americans?

  • Connection … Constanza Romero and August Wilson in 1991.

    Pittsburgh state of mind: how August Wilson's flame burns on

April 2019

  • ‘Not everyone’s coming-of-age involves them going on a gap year’ ... Emma Dennis-Edwards.

    From prison to the stage and back to Tottenham

  • Lanre Malaolu in Elephant in the Room

    Elephant in the Room: staring down the stigma of black men's mental health

March 2019

  • ‘I want to look at new things’ … Travis Alabanza.

    'Damn, I'm good at this!' Is Travis Alabanza the future of theatre?

    When someone threw a burger at Travis Alabanza, the trans performer turned it into a hit show. Next goal? Playing Juliet

February 2019

  • Composite of famous faces inside a red heart, for a piece about teenage crushes

    'Grace Kelly seemed like an angel': Clive James and others on their first crushes

  • A Wake in Progress director Liz Bacon and playwright Joel Samuels.

    A Wake in Progress: the show that's a dress rehearsal for death

January 2019

  • Boy doing homework on bed

    Young people look for meaning. But poetry doesn’t always offer clarity

    Bridget Minamore
  • Lynette Linton, photographed in a rehearsal room at the Donmar Dryden Street space. Lynette is directing SWEAT which runs at the Donmar Warehouse from 7th December until 26th January 2019. Lynette has recently been appointed Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre. London. Photograph by David Levene 29/11/18

    Lynette Linton: 'Why are we not marching in the streets?'

October 2018

  • Arinzé Kene and Natasha Gordon

    'We're here!' The black playwrights storming the West End

    Smash hits by black British playwrights were few and far between. Now Arinzé Kene and Natasha Gordon have work in the West End – and they’re changing the audiences too
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