I can’t imagine what it must have been like to watch Look Back in Anger in 1956. To experience John Osborne gut the audience like a fish, all their grotesque innards splayed out in front of you is as ...

“I doubt I could love anyone who did not want to see Look Back in Anger,” wrote the critic Kenneth Tynan in 1956, marking a line in the sand, a moment when the history of British theatre underwent a ...

Welcome to the latest episode of the WhatsOnStage Podcast – which this week is jetting into the past! Theatres at the moment are working like time machines, whisking audiences back to the 1950s as a ...

The mirror these plays held up to 1950s society is angled towards 2024, with the two plays running alongside each other in repertory for 11 weeks, as part of the Almeida’s Angry and Young season. See ...