Arifa Akbar is the Chief Theatre Critic at The Guardian. She specializes in the arts and entertainment sector, focusing on theater, film, and journalism, while also exploring topics related to media and press. Arifa's work has been featured in notable publications such as Yahoo Sports Canada, Playbill, and Literary Review.
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Arifa specializes in providing reviews within the entertainment industry, particularly focusing on theatre, dance, and comedy. Given that her coverage primarily consists of reviews, she is likely to be interested in pitches related to upcoming performances or events for review consideration.
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By: Arifa Akbar
A family are just getting used to their new home in this haunting drama when a parallel world emerges
By: Arifa Akbar
Overheard in the auditorium during the interval: it's like Tales of the Unexpected meets Jackanory.
By: Arifa Akbar
This adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositions
By: Arifa Akbar
The idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful given the stark subject matter of the Holocaust.
By: Arifa Akbar
The festive season brings swashbuckling adventure, heartwarming Antarctic antics, a yuletide spin on Pride and Prejudice and Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella
By: Arifa Akbar
David Edgar’s translation grounds Ibsen’s otherworldly play about a middle-aged architect’s fall from power, but its flaws are too loud to ignore
By: Arifa Akbar
This outing of Henrik Ibsen's play, translated by playwright David Edgar, is reassuring after Lila Raicek's oddly conceived West End version last
Three girls huddle together, playing childish games to allay their fears from whatever terror stalks them. There are flashes of light and sounds, followed by sudden blackouts.
By: Arifa Akbar
Is there a literary achievement greater than George Eliot's stonking masterpiece? Not according to a Guardian poll, topped by this sprawling, contemplative
By: Arifa Akbar
This RSC staging of the sprawling middle England masterpiece has humour, compassion – and even George Eliot herself as a character
