Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Daisy Hall's play finds two men attempting to calm an impending storm, even the climate crisis itself, with the perfect peal of bells The greatest dilemma …
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh What could have been a fiery exchange of fiercely held viewpoints is more likely to incite yawns than outrage Joshua Kaplan's play starts with an amusing conceit: D…
Grosvenor Park, ChesterIn this open-air production, audiences become citizens of an unruly city in which violence and corruption abound The prize for adventurous programming goes to Chester'…
Williamson Park, LancasterLed by the White Rabbit, this groovy promenade show follows a determined Alice's journey to the city's Ashton Memorial With more incident than drama, Lewis Carroll'…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThe Penrith town band bring warmth and plangency to an adaptation of the post-Thatcher movie, alive with movement and community spirit Around the end of the 1990s…
Tron theatre, GlasgowJohnny McKnight's snappy revival makes us all complicit in Philip Ridley's satire on capitalism and consumerism What moral compromises has the Christian right had to ma…
Pitlochry Festival theatreA shapeless staging and knockabout jokes detract from the emotional heft of this tale of thwarted love You might be excited to know that this adaptation of the Jane…
Actor will star in The Fear of 13, based on the true story of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of murder " as the Donmar Warehouse announces four new productions starring Celia Imrie, …
Royal Exchange, ManchesterDirector Josh Roche's new perspective " complete with smartphones, Instagram and Whitney Houston " breathes fresh life into a familiar classic To update Oscar Wilde…
Octagon, BoltonBram Stoker's novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce We have a cost of living crisis and a borin…
Everyman, LiverpoolTasha Dowd's big-hearted play is about a Liverpudlian woman who befriends HIV patients at the height of the Aids crisis, and features a ferocious broadside in favour of pu…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotIn this raucous production set at a summer festival, Viola and Sebastian have done too many pills, Sir Toby Belch listens to Arctic Monkeys … and Les De…
The 2018 hit about a cleaner who dreams of becoming a star in Nashville will begin theatre run in Edinburgh Wild Rose, the award-winning movie about a Glasgow country singer, is to be turned…
Various venues, EdinburghFrom a gentle exploration of tubes and spheres to a forthright examination of climate change, immersive puppetry and minimalist narrators, this is mesmerising for fa…
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…