Live theatre, Newcastle Jamie Eastlake's play addresses the forces pushing a young man towards the far right " and the school meals supervisor set on saving him When did society become so po…
Loading Bay, BradfordAdaptation of Fiona Mozley's novel wisely leaves the looming figure of Daddy unseen in this quasi-mythical tale of an off-grid family's doomed fight against class and ca…
Perth theatre This show aims to represent composer Irving Berlin's much-loved song in human form. But while that idea lacks coherence, the sketches and medleys are buoyantly performed The pi…
From musical versions of Pinocchio, Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes to a comedy about banana-loving beach-dwellers … dive into our selection box of festive theatre Sadler's Wells East,…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghJames Brining's first production as Lyceum artistic director finds humour and humanity in a finely etched ensemble It is quite something when Caroline Quentin dominate…
Dundee RepAndrew Panton's production of the memory play gains in quiet domestic realism what it loses in unhinged vitriol Christopher Jordan-Marshall breathes the evening into life. Gliding …
Ã’ran Mór, GlasgowIn this new musical, a bitter performer is visited by her sparkling younger self and confronts her disappointments Imagine spending a career wanting to play the lead …
Traverse, Edinburgh The 2011 book about a mother's struggle to pursue a career while looking after her children becomes a very routine drama Novelist Sarah Moss has expressed surprise at the…
Ã’ran Mór, GlasgowKaty Nixon's unsettling play explores the shadowy rules adolescents live by as friends navigate manipulation, secrets and the pressures of conforming There is an unex…
Tron theatre, Glasgow Uma Nada-Rajah writes with polemical force from firsthand experience of a health system on its knees A black hole sign is the dark area of a CT …
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough In our polarised times, this is a generous look at a friendship between an enigmatic young man and a grieving widower Adrian Prosper is a no-nonsense kind…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe people of a small Scottish town offer hope to bereaved families in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing in a moving music-theatre show What a joy to hear applause a…
Ã’ran Mór, GlasgowA naive Scottish academic is granted an audience with the genocidal Cambodian dictator in Jack MacGregor's play If you met a genocidal dictator how would you react? F…
Pitlochry Festival theatre Oraine Johnson's emotionally available take on Jay Gatsby adds more energy to a dance-filled show but Fitzgerald's lesson risks getting lost amid the frocks and fu…
Pitlochry Festival theatre An unplanned meeting between Burns's mother, wife and lover prompts an unsentimental reckoning for the flawed poet, enlivened with a dose of song Safe to say that …
Beats, rhymes and Bannockburn? The creators of Wallace explain why they used hip-hop to tell the story of Scotland's national hero If you were to come up with a list of the Scottish playwrig…
Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghThe onstage ranting of a comedian is interrupted by impassioned accounts of violence against women in Sadie Pearson's drama Full Frontal Theatre is a fe…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAnnie Lareau lost 35 of her fellow students on the downed Pan Am flight, but her focus on the personal in this three-hander leaves a gaping hole At the start of…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghFaustus is not damned alone in a parable about western hubris leading to war, colonialism and environmental exploitation As told by Goethe and Marlowe, the story of Fa…
Zoo Playground, EdinburghBelgian actors Verona Verbakel and Anemone Valcke share anecdotes about their industry in a knotty show about ambition and failure When we arrive, the screen behind …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghEmily Woof draws a connection between the female adulation around the Fab Four and radical artist Valerie Solanas's 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol A revolver is s…
Summerhall, EdinburghHannah Maxwell's delightfully meta hour, namechecking Richard Gadd and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's breakthroughs, is a blueprint for three potential shows " with the audience…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIndra Wilson's imaginative monologue is a touching exploration of grief and hope through space travel If you ever need an extended metaphor, just ask Indra Wilson. I…
Banshee Labyrinth, EdinburghTheodora van der Beek's inventive and quirky show about a slimy bloke targets the male gaze The clue is in the fingers. Rubbery, bulbous things, they look as if t…
Summerhall, EdinburghTrumpeter Jay Phelps plays a devotee of Benjamin Akintuyosi's Miles Davis in this reverential tribute Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity…