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 04:03AMHome, 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 03:03PMRoyal 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 07:24PMHope 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 08:54AMLeeds 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 03:42AMSheffield 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 09:18AMThis 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 06:45AMYork 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 07:06AMStudio 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 08:36AMLeeds 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 03:12AMBolton 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 03:33AMHandle 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 08:48AMWolves 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 08:59AMThe 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 09:06AMAs 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 04:27AMVarious 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 04:18PMA 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 07:18PMHome, 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 10:12AMThe 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 01:54AMHope 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 08:36AMPlan 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 03:12PMTraverse theatre, EdinburghDael Orlandersmith transforms into her characters, dispassionately inhabiting their reactions to the shooting of black teen Michael Brown by a white policeman Dael…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMRoundabout, Summerhall, EdinburghCharley Miles’s multifaceted but tightly focused play is about the complex, envy-laced relationship between siblings The title of Charley Miles’s play is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA woman with postnatal depression fixates on a homeless man in this uncomfortable drama in which only one of the characters seems real Katie Guicciardi’s one-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSummerhall, EdinburghInspirational hashtags, cute dogs and marriage don’t cure depression, says Demi Nandhra in her gleefully silly yet deeply important take on mental health Every year no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSummerhall, EdinburghThough it is unashamedly bleak, there are fragments of brightness as Caroline Horton’s show recognises mental health as something that ebbs and flows Caroline Horton o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Summerhall, Edinburgh/Assembly Roxy, EdinburghIn two bold new shows, fathers and their children are caught in a damaging cycle of love and betrayal Our fathers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIt’s not a new message but it’s made with charm and comedy in this three-hander about how women’s bodies are policed Remember that weight-loss product ad …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghNew Diorama’s beautifully crafted play casts doubt on titillating tales of the notorious serial killer, but can’t escape the clutches of morbid fascination …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMSummerhall, EdinburghWith a flurry of feathers and splash of water, Kim Donohoe and Pete Lannon ask how much can ever know another creature At a moment when we urgently need to reassess our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMUnderbelly, EdinburghPoltergeist’s mischievous show asks how we determine the worth and meaning of artworks A plastic shoe, scuffed around the edges, sits atop a white plinth. A figure st…
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