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On my radar: Nick Laird's cultural highlights Nick Laird © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Born in 1975 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, poet and novelist Nick Laird attended the University of Cambridge before working in law for six years. In 2005, he published his first collection of poems, Utterly Monkey. Since then, he has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and the Eric Gregory award. He lives in London with his wife, Zadie Smith, and their two children. Laird and Sm...

Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/magazine/drama-streaming.html Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible. Before 2020, theater often felt inaccessible to me, a luxury for those who were more able-bodied or lived in certain cities. Now I’m obsessed. Credit...Illustration by Ariel Davis April 6, 2021Updated 9:50 a.m. ET I have never lived in either London or New York, and thus have next to no experience with the hotbeds of English-speaking theater. Though I frequently travel to those cities, and social media posts of fri...

Aaron Sorkin Great art will be made from this time, about this time, inspired by this time. While we wait for that to emerge, we asked 75 artists to open up about their creative travails and triumphs a year into the pandemic. The questions we asked them are ones you may be asking yourself: Did you make anything that mattered? Who and what comforted you? Which moments will you remember? Which ideas would you like to forget? What would a do-over look like? And what’s still on your to-do list as “normal” comes into focus? Through interviews and written answers, edited and collected here, t...

(Photo of Will Arbery, upper left, and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” upper right, courtesy Playwrights Horizon. Bottom photo: Catholic News Service) “There’s a war coming, dude,” says one character to another very early in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” an Off-Broadway play by Will Arbery that created a sensation in 2019 for its nuanced portrait of young conservatives associated with a Catholic college in Wyoming. These were articulate, complicated people with political and religious views many audiences seemed pleasantly surprised to see onstage in Manhattan. Rod Dreher call...

The livestreams that won us round to online theatre in 2020 Exeunt’s writers look back on a year of livestreams, and the journey from despondency to hope. Normally, getting to grips with a new medium and a new artform is something you do by choice; “this winter I’ll get really into Twine”, you say to yourself, with no special urgency attached. But 2020 was the year when anyone interested in theatre and performance was ushered (or dragged, vigorously protesting that “it’s not the same!”) into the world of livestreaming. There was sometimes a sense of accompanying responsibility ...