Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFran Bushe's comedy uses glitter and smart songs to advocate better understanding of sex for womenFran Bushe wants to fix sex. Armed with glitter, songs and a d…
Summerhall, EdinburghValentijn Dhaenens takes us behind the speechifying in a compelling study of how politicians operateIt's six years since Valentijn Dhaenens blasted fringe-goers with his…
Summerhall, EdinburghKatherine Radeva takes on the dying days of communism in her native Bulgaria and considers the Britain she lives in todayIn the same year Europe marks the 30th anniversa…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSchoolboy banter and playground scraps expose underlying insecurities in Gary McNair and Kieran Hurley's playThe playground is a battlefield. Max and his be…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSimon Longman's teen tale of 'left behind' Britain pulls no emotional punches but risks becoming two-dimensionalKate, Sam and Pete live in a town made for l…
Underground Railroad Game and On the Exhale are among several shows at the festival exploring the way America sees itselfAs the UK's so-called special relationship with the US becomes increa…
Any stage version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's book hangs on the garden of its title. In Liz Stevenson's production, the
The grass is always greener, so they say. But for vicar Hugh (Jamie Baughan) and his wife Louise (Louise Shuttleworth), it really
This summer, community-led shows are encouraging residents to tell their own tales of loss, love and Bruce Springsteen gigsAt the Crucible theatre, Sheffield's teenagers are thinking about w…
The RSC actor on the moral ambiguity of Mantel's Tudor world and the thrill of bringing her Wolf Hall books to the West End' Michael Billington's review of Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies' Mar…
★★☆☆☆/★★★☆☆ Shakespeare's Rose theatre, YorkThis new venture offers spinning fairies in an otherwise flat Midsummer Night's Dream …
In this country, too often there’s a crude, limiting idea of what Shakespeare on stage looks like. Audiences expect opaque verse, loud
Royal Exchange, Manchester Peake's play is a fierce cry for recognition of the movement that supported miners and their families and saw women occupy a coal pit in protestThere's a familiar …
Sheffield CrucibleDirector Caroline Steinbeis takes up the gauntlet by reshaping and mining Churchill's 57 fleeting scenes for less obvious meaning Scripts are both instructional and nebulou…
Everyman, LiverpoolWith a cacophonous cast of characters, Robert Farquhar's new take on Peer Gynt dashes through the second half of the 20th centuryThe spirit of ensemble, an idea at the hea…
York Theatre RoyalA keen young player bonds with his mum on the way to a big match in Tutti Frutti's imaginative kids' showAs England pursue World Cup glory, the hero of Tutti Frutti's new s…
Venues in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield are putting work by refugees and asylum seekers at their heartIn 2013, West Yorkshire Playhouse staged Refugee Boy, an adaptation of Benjamin Zephan…
Scarcroft Allotments, YorkMikron's show about East End women's sacrifices for suffrage awkwardly seesaws between parody and sincerityMikron aim to make theatre for everyone, so it's apt that…
As a sound designer and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge works across stage and screen. She tells Catherine Love about the skills theatre has
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Beckett's tragicomedy is deftly retuned for an age of ecological anxiety and mounting plastic wasteCentre stage, a barren mound of earth. At its edges, a m…
When RashDash wanted to move up in scale, artistic directors advised the company to tackle a classic. Three Sisters " irreverently exploiting
Having examined the hothouse environment of British schooling from students' perspectives in A Level Playing Field, the second of Jonathan Lewis' trilogy
How can women or people of colour find a voice in theatre's classics when so much of the canon - written by white men - confines them to the sidelines? Meet the theatre makers who are reinve…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFeaturing 18 tracks by the Scottish duo, this spirited show is a thing of joy. By the time I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) comes on, resistance is futileWhisper it, b…
Everyman, LiverpoolPeppered with the novelist's own songs, this musical makeover of Anthony Burgess's classic finds plenty of contemporary resonancesA Clockwork Orange was the story Anthony …