Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Available onlineThis half-hour play about call-centre workers is an unsettlingly effective study of the isolation inflicted by coronavirus
The best theatre and dance to watch online
This new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, July 7, 2020
As the writer and actor takes I, Cinna (the Poet) on to Zoom, he talks about how the pandemic may result in shaking up the structure of theatre for the better
‘I always fly the flag of li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMMonday, June 22, 2020
Available online Manchester’s Home stages a lockdown all-nighter exploring students’ dreams, alongside time-capsule plays about spiralling social media horrors and disrupted lives
‘We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMThursday, April 30, 2020
Available onlineJames Phillips’s clash of near-future and Arthurian legend imagines patriotic nostalgia taken to extremes, if your nerves can take it
Extra tension is, understandably, som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMFriday, April 17, 2020
Reinventing courses that rely on physical contact is a challenge, but digital training could be the perfect curtain-raiser into theatre’s brave new world
Like so much else in this current …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, March 27, 2020
This experimental piece plays out in comment threads delivered direct to camera and raises important questions about theatre on the internet
It’s an odd bit of coincidence that Kieran Hurl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Everyman, LiverpoolJosie Lawrence stars in Jonathan Harvey’s story of the Domingo clan who have plenty of skeletons in their cupboards
As messed up families go, the Domingos are off the ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterAn asteroid is hurtling towards Earth in Alison Carr’s new play, where everyone takes part in a pub quiz
The local boozer might not be a bad place to wait for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMSunday, March 1, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseWith echoes of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Mel Pennant’s new play focuses on the mothers who are left behind
Racism, as Mel Pennant’s new play explores, does not come …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Deaf and disabled actors are bringing a fresh dimension to the much-loved tale in Leeds Playhouse’s new production. The creative team explain its ‘aesthetics of access’
Entering direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, February 17, 2020
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon TyneThe Young’uns bring the astonishing true story of a working-class hero who fought against Franco to rousing musical life
Five years ago, the folk band th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMThursday, February 13, 2020
Home, ManchesterThe thin line between loneliness and connection is made manifest in Gecko and Mind the Gap’s surprising show
It’s apt that Gecko’s new collaboration with Mind the Gap h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Royal Exchange, ManchesterAndrew Sheridan’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel focuses on Cathy and Heathcliff’s morbid passions and has the feel of a ghost story
There’s an inheren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThis collection of short plays by women features vivid characters and bears the bruises of the patriarchy
Vignettes is an apt title for HER Productions’ collec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, February 3, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseDavid Greig’s play about a Warsaw orphanage shows glimpses of hope in the ghetto – but, inevitably, it falls short of capturing the horror of the Holocaust
Philosopher The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMMonday, December 16, 2019
Sheffield CrucibleAgainst a spare backdrop, the cast generate energy, comedy and romance in spades in this revival of Frank Loesser’s New York musical
In turbulent political times, how can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, December 12, 2019
This year marks a new era for the York Theatre Royal panto. Well, sort of. Beloved, long-running dame Berwick Kahler may have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMFriday, November 22, 2019
York Theatre Royal Fugard’s profound examination of a South African family ripped apart by a workplace accident is devastatingly brilliant
Hello. Goodbye. These two small, unassuming words…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Studio theatre, SheffieldSign language adds new dimensions to Charlotte Keatley’s popular play about four generations of women
So much in My Mother Said I Never Should is unsaid, or half s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseWinsome Pinnock’s 2005 play that has been reimagined to focus on mental health asks urgent questions but yields few answers
When a man steps in front of a London Underground…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMFriday, November 1, 2019
Bolton Library and MuseumBeth Hyland attempts to shift the male-and-his-muse gaze in her story about misogyny in the music industry
Fiction and history are littered with male artists and the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Handle With Care, a three-week festival at Camden People’s theatre, aims to contest perceptions about millennials’ entitlement, fragility and offence-taking
Handle With Care, the title …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, September 30, 2019
Wolves may be in the title, but tutti frutti’s children’s show is all about the sheep. Its familiar story is told by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMSaturday, September 28, 2019
The Lowry, Salford Following two friends over three decades, Daniel Kanaber’s play spans friendship, mental health and emotionally pent-up men
‘Take care of yourself,” one character gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, September 26, 2019
As the lights come up, a crate is lowered from above, like a shipment being unloaded in the Brooklyn docks. Beneath the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:27AMFriday, September 20, 2019
Various venues, ManchesterFrom dance to comedy to video, this series of events confronts illness, grief and death with uplifting candour
The title of Candoco Dance Company’s show, Let’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMTuesday, September 17, 2019
A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
Jez Butterworth: the sage behind our No1 Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Home, Manchester Created with prisoners at HMP Wandsworth and performed by a cast affected by the criminal justice system, Luke Barnes’ play reminds us that people are more than their crim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThe TV host who provokes salacious slanging matches becomes newly pertinent in a revival of Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas’s show
It’s interesting how the pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM 
