Nearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production After its 2017 premiere off-Broadway, School G…
Pitlochry Festival theatreIn what feels now like a premonition of the climate crisis, Siobhán Redmond is compelling as the everywoman putting on a brave face in an unforgiving landscapeSamu…
New Diorama theatre, LondonPassionate production based on testimonies from Gaza poses many questions regarding Israel’s actions but gets overwhelmed by fact-delivery and form-switchesHow d…
Menier Chocolate FactoryJesse Tyler Ferguson’s 85-minute monologue and Paul Farnsworth’s immersive set deserve better than a Broadway museum piece text on the Breakfast At Tiffany’s au…
The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-star…
Soho theatre, LondonThis latest bulletin from the Irish standup’s fraught life delves deep into her OCD and dismay at her own foiblesPeople talking about their mental health is boring, say…
Chichester Festival theatreA narcotic, orgiastic woodland party clashes with the traditional values of John Major’s Tory party in Justin Audibert and Hannah Joss’s exuberant productionTh…
The Londoner is the set designer big names turn to for eye-popping spectacle. As a new retrospective opens, she gives the Guardian a glimpse at her studioFour years ago, the V&A East Sto…
Pitlochry Festival theatreMartin Sherman’s meta new work sees Fra Fee’s writer struggling to turn out a play about the flamboyant pianist while despising everything the showman stands fo…
OVO Hydro, GlasgowAhead of the sitcom’s new series in 2027 the full TV cast reunite for a masterclass in comfort comedy, adding musical interludes to the familiar suburban bedlamIt may hav…
Ormiston Bushfield Academy, PeterboroughAn intro to Shakespeare doesn’t get any better than the RSC’s revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female prison-set production led by Harriet Walter…
The creators and stars of Slam Frank on their off-Broadway production - which reimagines the Holocaust victim as a pansexual rapperIt’s difficult to not invoke the term “woke” when dis…
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA trio of dances taking influence from Stravinsky, tap and William Blake’s poetry combine with powerful performances exuding showmanshipDamn, there was some amazing…
Kiln theatre, LondonMarisha Wallace and Jamael Westman play exes who reconvene over dinner in Douglas Lyons’ sparky old-school charmerThis incorrigibly likable romcom comes to the UK with …
Soho Theatre Walthamstow, LondonThe standup delivers older and wiser musings and mockery, whether it’s about taches, a passion for Gail’s or a distaste for cyclistsLots has changed in th…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickInspired by Helen Rebanks’ bestselling memoir, Hannah Khalil’s play foregrounds the women holding everything togetherWhile anthropologists have made links bet…
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesA rag puppet Montmorency, a fake moustache and an aria for reeking cheese add to the mischief of Jerome K Jerome’s very English storyBack from Lib Dem con…
In the choreographers’ new work, virtuosic movement and some green-screen magic unfurl the theatricality of high-stakes television interviewsIt appears the interviewer has got him on the r…
The actor we know as Dustin was a ‘theatre kid’ from age 11. Now he’s starring in a new staging of Rent. He discusses why the musical is as relevant as ever – and what it’s like be…
Glasshouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts CentreSting plays a Wallsend foreman navigating the threat of his shipyard’s closure, taking a renewed version of his musical on an internati…
The banker turned standup turned actor shares her preshow rituals, what’s behind her ‘very swanky hairstyle’ and her joke about Indian Santa ClausHow did you go from investment banker …
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeCacophonous and comedic staging sees an experienced, older duo engage in an enthusiastic liaison rather than a rebellious first romanceAs in any production of Sh…
The playwright’s daughter found Catch Me Who Can after her mother’s death. Now it has become a compelling audio drama with Toby Jones and Rita TushinghamWas Shelagh Delaney a one-hit won…
As the chancellor, John Healey, ponders options ahead of his first budget, the playwright’s new work offers lessons from the pastStill only 44, James Graham has become a formidable chronic…
The Yorkshire poet had a ‘magic touch’, Liz Hicklin recalls, felt by many women: ‘It was like I was blossoming’Liz Hicklin had missed the ferry that could change her life. Pelting ra…