American Dream

Ahead of All My Sons showing at Nottingham New Theatre, Aidan Hall chatted about putting on such a renowned American play with one of the directors, Sofia Bassani...

Assassins is a play for these times. Despite the musical being first performed nearly 30 years ago, it’s examination of the assassins and would-be assassins of American presidents is bruising in its exploration of the dark side of the American Dream, the power of celebrity and, perhaps more relevant...

I’ve loved ‘Fast Car’ for years – it’s one of those songs that sticks with you, and occasionally you feel the need to listen to it for no other reason than you haven’t heard it in a while. When I got my newest phone, I wanted to have it...

It’s upstate New York, 1979, post-Vietnam. Set in the Latowski family’s front kitchen-come-bar, Tom Willis’ Electric Nebraska consumes the greying myth of the ‘American Dream’ with such dexterity you’d be forgiven for thinking it had been written by Mr Miller himself. Alongside smatterings of Donnie Brasco and his ‘fuggedaboutit’...