Pitlochry Festival theatreWriter Douglas Maxwell’s playful conceit sparks a funny and superbly acted exploration of messy relationships There is a clever conceit underlying Douglas Maxwell…
Riverside Studios, LondonTed Walliker’s one-man play about a night gone spectacularly wrong is boldly ambitious but we need to know more about the man at the micWatching a comedian crumble…
Camden People’s theatre, London Jonny Khan’s debut play, about an uncle and niece manning phones at a rescue service during racist attacks, is well acted yet lacks tensionThis theatre’…
Minerva theatre, Chichester Memories of an ex-girlfriend are rekindled as a couple prepare to celebrate in this adaptation of the filmThis story spans a week in the life of a couple approach…
Tony-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh was ‘broken up’ when she heard about the Irish singer-songwriter’s death three years ago. Now she and a group of over-40s female dancers are payi…
This year brings world-renowned choreographers, ballet cabaret and fluffy clowns for toddlersThis was San Francisco Ballet’s big new commission in 2024, now getting its European premiere a…
Òran Mór, Glasgow Nay Dhanak’s clownish tale follows an odd couple struggling to live up to their roles passing news from royal power to the publicWe are in a medieval world of portentou…
Old Vic theatre, LondonPatrick Marber’s perplexing revival of the salesmen classic amps up the comedy and the performance of masculinity but veers into Bugsy Malone territoryThere are few …
Sadler’s Wells, London The annual Flamenco festival kicks off in spectacular style, with a show of serpentine grace and rhythmic precisionThere are lots of places in life where being full …
‘I wanted to celebrate the women who are reinventing morris dancing. They took me to a pub and gave me a pickled egg mashed up in a packet of crisps. I felt like I’d entered a magical wo…
Arcola theatre, London Despite some strong satire, there is too much telling and not enough showing in Christine Bacon’s play exploring global inequalityThis play about the ethics of inter…
From Noël Coward to Martine McCutcheon, the famed institution has been hothousing talent for more than a century. Our writer finds there’s a softer approach these days – and a food bank…
James Bond actor, who is only the second non-royal woman to be celebrated in this way, called the honour ‘truly overwhelming’Dame Judi Dench is to have a West End theatre renamed after h…
Marina Market, CorkMichael Glenn Murphy is the accidental soldier and reluctant revolutionary reckoning with his past in Deirdre Kinahan’s touching drama of regret and returnA ferry termin…
Hugely successful London show to open in the US, with performances beginning in MarchMarmalade bagels at the ready: London’s Paddington Bear musical is to open on Broadway next spring. The…
Play at Gillian Lynne theatre in London will cycle through versions with weekend crowds able to pick oneIn keeping with its well-earned reputation for cloak and dagger, the stage adaptation …
The Crypt at St Luke’s, CorkLuke Casserly’s playful, participatory exploration of Ireland’s 10,000-year-old bogs involves touch, sound, taste – and an earthy perfumeSeated at a circu…
A cat decided it was the main character during the final scene of a Romeo and Juliet performance by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in Izmir, Turkey. The cat had a lie down, licked itsel…
From a Noh Othello that puts Desdemona centre stage to a requiem for a family killed in the Rwandan genocide, the theatre at this year’s festival gives voice to the marginalisedWhen Willem…
RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Danny Beard to step into Lily Savage’s heels in Jonathan Harvey’s playFew showbusiness careers begin in a towering blond beehive in the gay pubs of Vauxhall a…
The Standard of Living by James Graham traces economist’s influence on British politics and cultureAfter exploring the rise of Rupert Murdoch and the emergence of Gareth Southgate’s Engl…
Disruption during performance of Inter Alia comes weeks after Pike berated audience member for texting during playRosamund Pike kept her cool after a phone alarm in the front row interrupted…
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonPerformers representing the four seasons of life – and a wide range of styles – dance to a ravey remix of VivaldiIt was a great idea: a dance thro…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldEmily White’s lyrical, if contrived, play is based on a real coastal village whose residents are being made climate refugees by rising sea levelsIn 2014, residents of Fai…
This collection of ‘art meets theatre meets activism’ by more than 80 writers can feel overwhelming, writes our critic, but it devastatingly conveys the cumulative horror and anger of ab…