Sunday, May 23, 2021
Leeds PlayhouseThe poet and actor are among six writers whose short monologues span the theatre's 50 years " from the Yorkshire Ripper to a post-lockdown future
As Leeds Playhouse welcomes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 18, 2021
York Theatre RoyalA mix of music, dance, comedy and poetry delivers a bittersweet reminder of what lockdown deprived us of " and a joyous celebration of live performance
On the screen at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 30, 2021
Available onlineThis ingenious show featuring Mel Giedroyc casts its audience as board members of a charity and gives them a dilemma
It's a classic question: what would you be willing to ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 14, 2021
Available onlineWhile outrage against misogyny flares up once more, this collection of audio works by the Royal Exchange theatre celebrates marginalised and unsung female figures
This year,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Available online Viewers collaborate to chase clues and solve a deadly mystery in the follow-up to last year's Jury Duty
Online adventure and puzzle games " the socially distanced cousin of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the dog reinvents medieval wagon theatre for the 21st century " but it's more of an idea than a fully fleshed out story
Credit to imitating the dog for looking at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 6, 2020
Old Vic: In CameraThe Sherlock and Fleabag actor is transfixingly tender in Stephen Beresford's skilful monologue, performed against an eerie, empty auditorium
Three Kings is an unusually q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2020
Rowntree Park, York This tangled monologue " delivered to a socially spaced audience with emphatic charm by Chris Hannon " is a diverting way to bring open-air theatre back to life
First Lov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]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 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 live…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Monday, 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're al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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, somet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Hurley…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 char…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 director Amy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 has bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 inherent, ins…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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' collecti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Theodor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:45AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 sai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 08:59AM[SHARE] 
