Theatre Royal PlymouthSix characters stalk the stage with boxes in the company's anniversary show, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham I Think We Are Alone marks the 25th anniversary…
Birmingham RepThis adaptation of Louise O'Neill's novel has all the right intentions but offers cliches instead of real insight This sexual assault drama is entirely void of hope. A transfer…
Taking a break from goofy sitcoms, the actor is sounding the climate-crisis alarm in Caryl Churchill's Far Away. She talks about finding hope in a violent dystopia 'You're in a world in whic…
The first rule of mime club? You do not talk. Well, not when you're hard at work. Our writer takes lessons from Marcel Marceau's former student, Nola Rae Early on in mime school, I hit a bri…
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog recreate the groundbreaking 1968 horror film live on stage with remarkable results This extraordinary shot-by-shot remake of George Romero's 1968 cult horror…
Royal Court, LondonMiriam Battye's play has some astute insights, but the friendship at its centre doesn't seem worth fighting for Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird taught us that love and attention …
Having lit many shows in her 15-year career, Prema Mehta took on the challenge of using solely candles at the wood-panelled theatre.
In 2019, Told by an Idiot launched the Naomi Wilkinson Award for female stage designers. Winner Ioana Curelea tells Kate Wyver about
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA missed opportunity to satirise modern politics, this show resorts to panto for its obvious parodies and easy laughs We get it: dictators are bad. Roughly assimi…
Soho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity Hilarious, sincere, sexy and bruta…
New Diorama theatre, LondonBreach Theatre's hilariously heretical satire of medieval mystery plays is a celebration of queer voices and a fine alternative Christmas show Breach Theatre works…
Secret location, LondonIn this immersive show we are promised a globetrotting night of drugs and sex … but are left loitering in a living room The best immersive theatre makes its audience…
Pleasance theatre, LondonGroan-worthily unfunny jokes litter this blooper reel of a show about the last people left on Earth The second show of Sink the Pink's queer Christmas trilogy is mod…
Dominion theatre, LondonWith firecracker performance and singalong sounds, this version of the Bing Crosby classic glistens with sexy razzmatazz, but tenderness lies beneath the shiny surfac…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe winter of our discontent gets an ungrounded production that even scene-stealing performances by the Globe ensemble can't make glorious Fickle, brittle head…
Thursford Collection, NorfolkA fever-dream of outrageous talent and suffocating joy, this extravaganza must be seen to be believed, albeit just the once I close my eyes and can see only sequ…
Transgressive, intimidating and smeared with ketchup, the performer loves to give audiences more than they've bargained for " from an X-rated Jesus to a bare Boudicca Lucy McCormick pulls he…
Pleasance, LondonTheir tongues firmly in their cheeks, Figs in Wigs' boisterous parody ranges from pun-filled comedy skits to cocktail-making in hazmat suits You probably won't remember the…
Union theatre, LondonCliche-drenched lyrics and a lightweight storyline put a cork in the emotional reckoning at this unremarkable story's heart Empty bottles dangle from the ceiling in this…
Boulevard theatre, LondonOn a set that looks like an abandoned attic, four characters sing of love, loss and bears, in Dave Malloy's unearthly song cycle Working its way through myth, magic …
The Kiln, LondonFor all its good intentions, Anupama Chandrasekhar's play about patriarchal violence against women in India relies too heavily on shock I want to shed my skin and scoop out m…
Tobacco Factory, BristolA party feel in the first half of Elizabeth Freestone's production slumps like a hangover when Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Geoffrey Lumb are off-stage Dorothea Myer-Ben…
Bristol Old VicA strong poetic lead and fine support can't make this meandering new adaptation anything more than a slog 'That was mercifully short," one actor jokingly sneers, after the aud…
Leeds PlayhouseThe murderer is never named in Charley Miles's furious, funny play about women in Leeds between 1975-80 With a panoramic sense of empathy, Charley Miles' heated play sees the …
Southbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment's mimed maelstrom of aggression Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainment'…