Monday, June 17, 2024
Octagon, BoltonBram Stoker's novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce
We have a cost of living crisis and a borin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2024
Everyman, LiverpoolTasha Dowd's big-hearted play is about a Liverpudlian woman who befriends HIV patients at the height of the Aids crisis, and features a ferocious broadside in favour of pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotIn this raucous production set at a summer festival, Viola and Sebastian have done too many pills, Sir Toby Belch listens to Arctic Monkeys … and Les De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The 2018 hit about a cleaner who dreams of becoming a star in Nashville will begin theatre run in Edinburgh
Wild Rose, the award-winning movie about a Glasgow country singer, is to be turned…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Various venues, EdinburghFrom a gentle exploration of tubes and spheres to a forthright examination of climate change, immersive puppetry and minimalist narrators, this is mesmerising for fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2024
Live theatre, NewcastleStewart Pringle's play unfolds with wit and abrasive lyricism on the sidelines of a chaotic miles-long pitch, where the action definitely isn't
If you despair at how l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas's adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025
Neil Gaiman's award-winning novella Coraline is to be turned into…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2024
Aviva Studios, ManchesterDaisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth's physical and emotional impact
John Bowen's Robin Redbreast is one of tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Birmingham RepA strong cast and a magical set make this more or less word-for-word stage transfer of the cult hit an entertaining tribute piece
In 1988, I worked on a listings magazine's com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2024
The Fawlty Towers actor has often played the monarch in the past and has now recorded audio for a new production at the festival
At the age of 91, Prunella Scales has reprised one of her fav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Tron theatre, GlasgowThatcher stalks the stage like an untamed monster, but the rest of Barr's account of growing up gay in the 80s is sentimentalised and soppy
On the page, Damian Barr's 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024
Adrian Dunbar is to curate a festival in Liverpool dedicated to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
Everyman, Liverpool No two performances take the same order as Joe Ward Munrow's scenes of industrial conflict range across history " led by a machine's chance decrees
A play about machines …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Stage@TheDock, HullJodie and Mike are getting married with all the familiar trimmings " wayward stag night, last-night jitters, irritating in-laws " but Maureen Lennon calls out the hidden m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
Nottingham PlayhouseThree unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government's Prevent strategy
The three GCSE students in Sonali Bhatt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2024
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the second world war is shadowed by trauma but full of life and merriment
We are in tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Festival theatre studio, EdinburghCatriona Faint's witty performance as a pragmatist caught up in fanatical times is the heart of the latest historical drama from Rona Munro's James Plays se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2024
Traverse theatre, EdinburghA former police officer with muscular dystrophy fights a grotesquely bureaucratic system in this subversive satirical broadside
It is 2037 and the government has i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2024
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickSeán Aydon's laboured attempts to shriek the play into life with overstated and almost unintelligible clowning only serves to flatten Richard Brinsley Sheridan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot In novelist Philippa Gregory's telling, the much maligned king reveals a more human side amid rather too much exposition
If you wanted to invent a funny…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2024
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Amanda Whittington's sequel to Ladies' Day sends her characters off to Australia for an enjoyable range of epiphanies
It is 2007 and the four women who struck i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2024
Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday
Sean Holmes, director, The Sea (2000…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Lawrence Batley theatre, HuddersfieldA superb Meg Lewis plays three characters losing touch with reality in Billie Collins's play about a market-driven world
When ThickSkin announced this sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig's entertaining and immaculately performed new play is about adults seduced by memories of their own emotionally heightened teenage pasts
Two Sisters smells…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2024
Royal Exchange, ManchesterPhoebe Eclair-Powell's prize-winning play is about three related relationships which seem increasingly characterised by powerlessness, menace and dislocation
Phoebe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterJim Cartwright's riches-to-rags comedy reunites an abrasive northern couple who turned to sex work for survival in a hedonistic London adventure
The lust for lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2024
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeRon Hutchinson's comedy marks 100 years since the first radio play but succumbs to cliches and jarring humour
Playwright Ron Hutchinson sets his tribute to the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Octagon, BoltonIqbal Khan's production lays bare the uncomfortable parallels between a mid-20th century Soviet Union and today's marauding politicians
How George Orwell would despair at toda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2024
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne David Almond's young adult novel is brought to life in a soulful production that weaves its mythical elements with imagination
There are three intangibles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
The annual festival of visual theatre delivers an inventive mix of wry commentary, daft puppetry and high-precision performance
You can rely on Edinburgh's Manipulate festival to give you so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
Theatre Royal, DumfriesThe well-crafted jokes are a cover for reflections on sectarianism, asylum seekers, Scottish independence, inequality, Covid conspiracy theories and pandemic isolation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE] 
