tue 09/09/2025
Home > users

aleks sierz

aleks.sierz's picture
Bio
Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre and Rewriting the Nation, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.

Articles By Aleks Sierz

The Prudes, Royal Court review - hilarious but frustrating sex show

Wednesday, 25 April 2018 Read more...

Instructions for Correct Assembly, Royal Court review - Jane Horrocks in Middle England 'Westworld'

Monday, 16 April 2018 Read more...

Pressure, Park Theatre review - David Haig terrific in his own drama

Wednesday, 04 April 2018 Read more...

Black Men Walking, Royal Court review - inspiring and exhilarating

Friday, 23 March 2018 Read more...

The Great Wave, National Theatre review - moving epic of global loss

Tuesday, 20 March 2018 Read more...

Humble Boy, Orange Tree Theatre review - love, death and science in Middle England

Tuesday, 13 March 2018 Read more...

The Best Man, Playhouse Theatre review - Gore Vidal’s plodding presidential drama

Wednesday, 07 March 2018 Read more...

Frozen, Haymarket Theatre review - star cast explores the reality of evil

Wednesday, 21 February 2018 Read more...

Angry, Southwark Playhouse review – wondrously roaring Ridleyland

Saturday, 17 February 2018 Read more...

Girls & Boys, Royal Court review - Carey Mulligan is stunningly brilliant

Friday, 16 February 2018 Read more...

The Divide, Old Vic review - Alan Ayckbourn’s overblown dystopia

Thursday, 08 February 2018 Read more...

Gundog, Royal Court review - tedious and inconsequential

Thursday, 08 February 2018 Read more...

Paines Plough Roundabout, Orange Tree Theatre review - too brief to really rock

Monday, 05 February 2018 Read more...

The Believers Are But Brothers, Bush Theatre review - a gimmick in search of a story

Saturday, 27 January 2018 Read more...

The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter Theatre review - starry cast create a stunning masterpiece

Friday, 19 January 2018 Read more...

The Jungle, Young Vic review - physically and emotionally challenging

Saturday, 16 December 2017 Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
BBC Proms: Steinbacher, RPO, Petrenko / Sternath, BBCSO, Ora...

My final visit to the Proms for this year was a Sunday double-...

Honey Don’t! review - film noir in the bright sun

The Coen brothers’ output has been so broad-ranging, and the duo so self-deprecating, that critics have long had difficulty getting their arms...

Blu-ray: The Sweeney - Series One

You’ll have absorbed key strands of The Sweeney‘s DNA even if you’ve never watched an episode, ITV’s groundbreaking police drama having...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 92: Marianne Faithful, Crayola Lectern,...

VINYL OF THE MONTH

Black Lips Season of the Peach (Fire)

...

Blondshell, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow review - woozy roc...

There is such nonchalance with Sabrina Teitelbaum that even her appeals to the crowd appeared laid-back. At points during her set the Los Angeles...

Ganavya, Barbican review - low-key spirituality

At the start or her show, the white-robed singer Ganavya does something unusual: while other performers usually warm their audience up before...

Music Reissues Weekly: Chiswick Records 1975-1982 - Seven Ye...

Chiswick Records 1975-1982 - Seven Years at 45 RPM is a triple album marking the 50th anniversary of the first release...

I Fought the Law, ITVX review - how an 800-year-old law was...

ITV continues its passion for docudramas about injustice, which you can’t...

theartsdesk at the Lahti Sibelius Festival - early epics by...

It’s weird, if wonderful, that vibrant young composers at the end of the 19th century should have featured death so prominently in their hero-...