Available online A young woman takes an unusually sticky route to recovery in Eva O'Connor's solo story about obsession and heartbreak The mustard gathers in a globule on Eva O'Connor's chin…
Available onlineLuke Sheppard's smart production of the classic rock musical, slickly recorded at Hope Mill theatre, Manchester, makes the most of social distancing The stage is bustling wit…
From Polly Lister playing a dozen characters in Scarborough's Snow Queen to Tom Binns's solitary Buttons, one is fun for 2020's pantomimes 'The length of each act should be the length of a c…
Female and non-binary performers deal with issue of playwright's instructions A dead man's voice can travel a long way. In 1988, Samuel Beckett sued a Dutch theatre company for casting women…
What makes a great teacher? We meet the three nominees " all dancers " who are in the running for the educator category of this year's Black British Theatre awards Dollie Henry started danci…
Bridge theatre, London Yolanda Mercy's funny, engaging verse monologue finds a twentysomething torn between dodging responsibility and accepting it's time to define herself All children, exc…
User Not Found, Dante or Die's story about loss and digital legacy, has been refreshed for a lockdown audience who have grown accustomed to grieving and creating intimacy online 'If your par…
A gentle and touching new story from New Perspectives theatre company unfolds in six deliveries, spanning two continents and three decades A postcard slips through the letterbox and lands li…
This interactive solo performed by Lucy Aarden as the Stratford playwright is irresistible " even the chickens love it 'Ovid wrote The Metamorphoses in quarantine. What are you doing with yo…
The festival may be cancelled but our writer is determined to recreate the experience at home. So she pours a cider, steps into her bath " and logs on to the fringe's freakiest shows The Edi…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosé Saramago's timely, sinister story of a world in chaos reopens the theatre after lockdown and is narrated with savage rage by Juliet Stevenson After four months …
Drag artists play to an invisible audience in a series of recorded works that have a sense of protest at heart The queer cabaret night Razed and Confuzed is normally a physical event, but as…
HAU, BerlinAnglo-German group Gob Squad take to the streets of Berlin, London and Sheffield with a livestreamed feat of connection At 1.12am, Bastian Trost invites anyone watching from Berli…
Available online Forest Fringe release a jolly bunch of downloadable plays, games and diversions to inject some performance into lockdown life Forest Fringe have never been one for conventio…
Yard theatre, Hackney WickThis all-day online festival included a one-to-one performance over the phone, a Ghanaian cook-along and a virtual after-party Hottest front-room seats: the best t…
Available onlineForced Entertainment improvise online conversations that cut to the confusion and frustrations of lockdown Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and dance online Forced Ente…
The annual extravaganza was moved ingeniously online for a weekend of shows united in their celebration of togetherness The best theatre and dance to watch online The best arts and entertai…
Available onlineMind the Gap's enormous outdoor production boldly tackles the stigma faced by a mum with learning disabilities ' Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watc…
Available onlineJohn Gielgud's 1964 production of Shakespeare's play haunts this meta-spectacle that questions the nature of performance In these times when "too, too solid flesh" is somethi…
Gate theatre, London Sylvan Oswald gives a dystopian twist to the French essayist's ideas on borders to explore modern gender politics This show is almost as impenetrable as its full title: …
The Canadian performer's controversial show Daughter is coming to London. Its brutal gut-punch experience is not for everyone When Adam Lazarus complained about a seven-year-old boy putting …
With their passion for the immediacy of new writing, Paines Plough's new joint artistic directors Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett tell Kate
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough Beth Flintoff rewrites the narrative of the woman killed in the Red Barn, focusing on her wit and ferocity rather than her notorious death The history boo…
Salisbury PlayhouseEmmet Byrne is superb in this relocated update of the Spanish classic but it lacks the fire of the original Barney Norris tames Lorca's Spanish tragedy in this gentle adap…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFlat insults, bland puns and painful verse let down this staging of Shakespeare's problematic play, which charges ahead without a trace of satire There is no …