Live theatre, NewcastleStewart Pringle's play unfolds with wit and abrasive lyricism on the sidelines of a chaotic miles-long pitch, where the action definitely isn't If you despair at how l…
Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas's adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025 Neil Gaiman's award-winning novella Coraline is to be turned into…
Aviva Studios, ManchesterDaisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth's physical and emotional impact John Bowen's Robin Redbreast is one of tho…
Birmingham RepA strong cast and a magical set make this more or less word-for-word stage transfer of the cult hit an entertaining tribute piece In 1988, I worked on a listings magazine's com…
The Fawlty Towers actor has often played the monarch in the past and has now recorded audio for a new production at the festival At the age of 91, Prunella Scales has reprised one of her fav…
Tron theatre, GlasgowThatcher stalks the stage like an untamed monster, but the rest of Barr's account of growing up gay in the 80s is sentimentalised and soppy On the page, Damian Barr's 20…
Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024 Adrian Dunbar is to curate a festival in Liverpool dedicated to the …
Everyman, Liverpool No two performances take the same order as Joe Ward Munrow's scenes of industrial conflict range across history " led by a machine's chance decrees A play about machines …
Stage@TheDock, HullJodie and Mike are getting married with all the familiar trimmings " wayward stag night, last-night jitters, irritating in-laws " but Maureen Lennon calls out the hidden m…
Nottingham PlayhouseThree unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government's Prevent strategy The three GCSE students in Sonali Bhatt…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the second world war is shadowed by trauma but full of life and merriment We are in tha…
Festival theatre studio, EdinburghCatriona Faint's witty performance as a pragmatist caught up in fanatical times is the heart of the latest historical drama from Rona Munro's James Plays se…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghA former police officer with muscular dystrophy fights a grotesquely bureaucratic system in this subversive satirical broadside It is 2037 and the government has i…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickSeán Aydon's laboured attempts to shriek the play into life with overstated and almost unintelligible clowning only serves to flatten Richard Brinsley Sheridan…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot In novelist Philippa Gregory's telling, the much maligned king reveals a more human side amid rather too much exposition If you wanted to invent a funny…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Amanda Whittington's sequel to Ladies' Day sends her characters off to Australia for an enjoyable range of epiphanies It is 2007 and the four women who struck i…
Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday Sean Holmes, director, The Sea (2000…
Lawrence Batley theatre, HuddersfieldA superb Meg Lewis plays three characters losing touch with reality in Billie Collins's play about a market-driven world When ThickSkin announced this sh…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig's entertaining and immaculately performed new play is about adults seduced by memories of their own emotionally heightened teenage pasts Two Sisters smells…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterPhoebe Eclair-Powell's prize-winning play is about three related relationships which seem increasingly characterised by powerlessness, menace and dislocation Phoebe…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterJim Cartwright's riches-to-rags comedy reunites an abrasive northern couple who turned to sex work for survival in a hedonistic London adventure The lust for lif…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeRon Hutchinson's comedy marks 100 years since the first radio play but succumbs to cliches and jarring humour Playwright Ron Hutchinson sets his tribute to the b…
Octagon, BoltonIqbal Khan's production lays bare the uncomfortable parallels between a mid-20th century Soviet Union and today's marauding politicians How George Orwell would despair at toda…
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne David Almond's young adult novel is brought to life in a soulful production that weaves its mythical elements with imagination There are three intangibles…
The annual festival of visual theatre delivers an inventive mix of wry commentary, daft puppetry and high-precision performance You can rely on Edinburgh's Manipulate festival to give you so…