John Osborne and Arnold Wesker captured the 50s but remain playwrights for the ages
Michael Billington
Look Back in Anger/Roots review – double bill of 1950s gamechanging kitchen sink dramas
January 2024
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
May 2023
London’s Roundhouse to train 15,000 young people in creative industries
Venue raised £8m in donations to build facilities for music, performance and production
September 2022
Antisemitism claims at the Royal Court theatre
Letters: Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops
March 2019
'We've been ashamed of our voice': the secret history of UK Jewish theatre
The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre – but in the UK it’s been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why
December 2017
Recalling Coventry’s great cultural heyday
Letters: John Green remembers growing up in Coventry after the war when world-famous artists and architects flocked to the city. And Ian Joyce wonders why a replica of Frank Whittle’s first jet aircraft adorns a Lutterworth traffic island
October 2016
Roots and forgotten fruits: Wesker tribute reminds us of his later plays
Michael Billington
The Royal Court hosted a moving celebration of Arnold Wesker. His early works such as Roots are well known – let’s rediscover the rest of his 44 plays
April 2016
Peter Gill on Arnold Wesker: ‘John Dexter brought these new plays to life’
Arnold Wesker’s influences and time in prison
Lines
Drama in the canteen
Appreciation: Arnold Wesker, 1932-2016
Letter: The surprisingly versatile Arnold Wesker
Arnold Wesker: An angry young man who upset the theatrical establishment
Arnold Wesker applied his life to his times – and showed us greatness
David Edgar
From the Guardian archive
Breakfast with Wesker – archive interview
Arnold Wesker: the radical bard of working Britain
Michael Billington
Arnold Wesker: kitchen-sink dramatist – in pictures
