Title: Venue: Dates: Author(s): Director: Ross Ericson Design: Technical: no credits given on freesheet Cast includes: Producer(s): Running time: Reviewer: Lauren Mooney
A smart, funny show about our relationship to our bodies when they fail us, Gutted is a surprisingly moving and hugely watchable
Tea House Theatre sparked a Twitter storm after its job listing went viral. Here's Lauren Mooney on its unpalatable message about undervalued, often female labour in the arts. The post Not m…
As breakneck as the best night out, as wild as you wish you'd been, as tender as a bruise: Lauren Mooney - Exeunt's intrepid Bear Grylls - revels in the unabashed vibrancy of Lee Hall's accl…
Every day millions of internet users ask Google life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesIf you've asked why theatre matters, there's e…
It’s been seven years since Jack Thorne’s one-woman play Bunny premiered in Edinburgh, where it won a Fringe First. Thorne has gone
Months after the acclaimed television adaptation, and weeks after the tickets for this run were snapped up in a record-breaking ten minutes,
After a lumbering first half, Peter and the Starcatcher rears into brilliant life. It's great when it gets going " a beautiful
The theatre's decision to dispense with its groundbreaking artistic director reflects a mindset that resists change " especially when a woman is driving itIt was announced yesterday that Emm…
One of London’s premier new-writing theatres is seeking a resident assistant producer. As well as working on various different productions, including development and
You've probably been in a pub with a noisy expert and felt the need to say you like a playwright you don't. That's exactly what stops us engaging with theatreThe new artistic director of the…
Jostling for position amongst the huge range of companies working up at the Fringe are a set of newcomers " newcomers to the Festival, to the city, to Europe itself, in some cases leaving th…
If you’ve been frequenting the Edinburgh Fringe long enough, there’s a chance you’ll be most familiar with Tom Basden as an Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly the Perriers, n…
The front wall of the newly rebuilt Liverpool Everyman Theatre feels like a statement of intent. It’s not often you can say that about a wall, but this one features portraits of 105 pe…
Tin Shed Theatre Company is busy, busy, busy. I speak to Company Director Georgina Harris on a chance free day between school tours of An Inspector Calls and Of Mice and Men, educational wor…
Kill the Beast burst onto the fringe theatre scene last year with a spatter of blood and a porcine squeal. Its debut show, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, based on Tom Baker's novella of the same n…
Meeting Nir Paldi upstairs at the Southbank Centre, I’m not entirely convinced I’m going to recognise him. After all, the last time I saw him, five months ago at the Edinburgh Fr…
It would seem that in the 37 years since Susan Sontag published On Photography " her collection of essays discussing, amongst other things, the ‘outsider’ status of the photog…
Earlier this year, when Brian Logan and Jenny Paton opened applications for the annual Sprint festival, they were struck by the sheer number that dealt with a recurrent theme: those “t…
(2/5 stars) In this re-imagining of Sarah Kane’s famous play, first performed posthumously in 2000, DEM Productions attempts to turn this dark, highly-stylised swan song into something…
(4/5 stars) At a time when young people across the country are experiencing agony or ecstasy as a result of something as ultimately trivial as tests and grades, Toot has created a bizarre, s…
(4/5 stars) Graham Chapman died of cancer in 1989, just shy of the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In this one man show written by Tom Craws…
(5/5 stars) Kabul, which bears the name of the troubled city in which it is set, is both the story of a place and something far more personal. Set in 1997 when, during the civil war in Afgha…
(2/5 stars) The puppetry impresses far more than the writing in this Queen Mary Theatre Company show about a successful actor who is diagnosed with a rare, fast-acting form of muscular dystr…
(3/5 stars) This new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox sees a young company waver between making a children’s show and, an important distinction, simply adapting a chil…