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A selection from the dozens of outdoor art performances that made up the Greenwich+Docklands international festival, which finished on Sunday. The theme was We Move – a celebration of the …
Finborough theatre, LondonNichola McAuliffe returns to the roles Wesker tailored for her in 1981, in a trio of wistful and insightful soliloquies about working-class women’s inner thoughts…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian…
Crucible theatre, Sheffield The 82-year-old actor gives a performance of absolute authenticity and clarity as the erratic demagogue in a uniformly impressive productionThe word “nothing”…
National Theatre, London Letitia Wright plays the ambitious young reporter seduced into cutting corners with contentious reporting in a brilliantly kinetic…
The ex-marketing manager’s win, for his spoof Sycamore Gap-inspired whodunnit Rewilding, arrives just as he’s gearing up for a new season of hit sketch show SNL UK – which he calls ‘…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrian Friel’s version of Turgenev treads lightly between humour and hurt as wayward passions rock a country houseA bored hausfrau languishing in her marriage. A con…
Theatre Royal BathAntihero actor Garry becomes a magnificent new kind of beast as Gerri, played with blistering hilarity by Tracy-Ann ObermanThe reputation of Noël Coward’s plays has invo…
In an ambitious new project, a cast of New Yorkers will help to create a one-of-a-kind tribute to New York City on stage in Central ParkLast year, theatre-makers Emily Lim and Dan Canham spe…
Misfits Together, by Bastille’s Dan Smith and To Kill a King’s Ralph Pelleymounter, is set amid the 1950s’ ‘red scare’It was lampooned as the union of the “hourglass” and the �…
Dancer in the Sadler’s Wells Ballet who was a snake in Tiresias, a goat in Sylvia and an autumn fairy in Frederick Ashton’s CinderellaPauline Clayden was one of the dancers who formed th…
Òran Mór, GlasgowComedy chemistry drives a play that asks if three contrasting characters – conspiracy theorist, pregnant mum, hen-do attendee – can find common groundTrapping three ni…
As The Story – inspired by a scandal that ended a young Black reporter’s career – makes its London debut, its author explains why, two decades on, it’s more relevant than everIf our …
Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves The Electra bit of the title refers to the Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter trappe…
Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead a brilliant staging of Arthur Miller’s tragedy, a Shelagh Delaney deep-cut is released and Black Watch turns 20Ivo van Hove’s staggering West End…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghNorris swaps her larger-than-life Farm Fatale persona for something more autobiographical in this easygoing musical comedyKatie Norris is on a familiar trajecto…
Swinton takes a dead man’s identity, Glasgow’s heir to Billy Connolly heads on tour and Gillian Anderson, Keira Knightley and Natalia Osipova all hit the stage• See all of our unmissab…
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA female secret agent’s extraordinary courage never quite comes to life in a drama that struggles to find tension in her high-stakes storyNoor-un-Nisa Inayat Kha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Chicken Shop Date co-writer gives a gossipy, erudite account of his relationship with how he looks in this assured debutAt a fringe noticeable for the polis…
Assembly George Square studios, EdinburghWriter and actor Alaa Shehada turns a simple bus trip from the West Bank into a vivid tale of bureaucracy, humiliation and resistanceIt is the simpli…
Edinburgh PlayhouseSan Francisco Ballet brings a spectacular collision of dance, music and digital wizardry to the Edinburgh international festival in this bold reimagining of Pandora’s bo…
Studio theatre, Edinburgh Groupwork’s physical theatre show captures the real story of a midwest mystic from the 50s and the followers she drew, in all their eerie ordinarinessIn the early…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic’s unique tale of assimilation and romance-related limbo has a high joke rate and emotional intelligenceI want to tell Omar Badawy to take a breath. …
Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghFour clowns stir up a strange stew of ideas about faith in this playful and highly physical comedy‘Anyone ever been born before?” That’s a rare…
At the newly reopened King’s theatre in Edinburgh, as part of the international festival, Geoff Sobelle’s Clown Show is a dizzying whirl through US historyClown Show review – the Ameri…
