Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterJustin Greene and the late Steve Brown's musical about a working-class woman who wins big on the pools and blows the lot is given a moving dream twist As ec…
Tron theatre, GlasgowThere are cursory mentions of crocodiles, clocks and boys who never grow up, but Johnny McKnight's script charts its own course in a hilariously daft production I have s…
Pitlochry Festival theatreIn our dark times, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classics offer a sugar-coated disguise for a show with political heft Elizabeth Newman's six-year tenure as Pitlochry…
Royal Court, LiverpoolWolf-like property developers are set to evict the grandmother, who is on a night of drug-fuelled abandon, in this enjoyable show This is Liverpool, so the most frighte…
Alphabetti, NewcastleWritten and performed by Matt Miller, this tender solo show weaves in bittersweet childhood memories with car maintenance metaphors We have signed up for a 12-week cours…
Playhouse, SheffieldThe actor plays a dozen roles with aplomb in a small-town US tale co-written with Ed Stambollouian What an astonishing performance. In a kind of true-crime version of Und…
Birmingham RepRae Mainwaring's award-winning drama about a young woman with multiple sclerosis is given a playful production This play's title refers to the patches of an MRI scan that indic…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAn unlikely crew, including a vicar and two pensioners, sail a dodgy ship on a voyage to honour an explorer. But the sitcom setup fails to deliver much com…
Everyman, Liverpool Julian Moore-Cooke is terrific as Padraic, avenging his pet, but the mix of humour and gory violence needs fine-tuning in this revival The joke at the heart of Martin McD…
Ã’ran Mór, Glasgow A plain-speaking policeman finds himself confronted by one of history's great impostors in Jonny Donahoe's entertaining play Anastasia is attempting to look regal in…
Tron, GlasgowNearly 30 years on, environmental activists' occupation of the North Sea fuel store gets an ambitious, heartfelt musical treatment This time last year, Just Stop Oil protestors …
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThe pack prowls the stage and falls from the sky in this dark and dynamic production combining Carter's rich gothic language with impressive aerial skills The w…
Northern Stage, NewcastleVast amounts of shagpile set the scene for Jack Bradfield's production of the grotesque classic about materialism and status chasing It ends with a blast of Prince C…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotExuberant production sees spoken word and physically expressive BSL users mirroring each other as they audition to take the lead roles Unusually for a Sha…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughWhen the retired MD of a department store books a theatre company to perform at his home, relationships and reality begin to unravel If, like Alan Ayckbour…
Pitlochry Festival theatre Harry Mould's sweet and sexually frank debut focuses on the female volunteers at the Samaritans in the 1970s charged with talking to 'telephone masturbators' This …
Back for its 15th year, this festival favourite finds a bespectacled primate sitting silently on stage for 56 minutes " to wild applause The queue snakes around the bar, stretches down the c…
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, EdinburghAlan McHugh's play is about grief and the agony of treatment " but also hope and laughter in the face of adversity What a lovely thing to have done. Wh…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThis unfunny spoof of Glasgow's dismal Wonka-themed attraction is as short of ideas as the event that inspired it How we laughed at Willy's Chocolate Experience, a f…
Cancel culture, faltering fatherhood and the life of a tennis champ are dramatised as standups including Ivo Graham, Anna Morris and Adam Riches take a theatrical path this summer Sam Kissaj…
Summerhall, EdinburghTim Etchells' looping performance piece with Bert and Nasi replays a simple restaurant scene over and over with hilarious results Like a volley of Ken Dodd jokes or one …
Younger audiences can choose from fart jokes, dancing lizards, acrobatic bees and plenty of other monkeying around Pleasance Courtyard, 11.30am, until 25 August Continue reading...
Summerhall, EdinburghBarton C Williams, flown out of Vietnam at the end of the war, recounts his experiences of racism in Adelaide and tells the stories of others relocated around the world …
From the backseat of a moving car to a swimming pool, what constitutes a venue at Scotland's sprawling arts festival never fails to surprise Of all the extraordinary things about the Edinbur…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghThe mezcal's on hand for this strange, song-filled journey into the land of the dead If Juan Rulfo's magic realist novel Pedro Páramo has the feel of a séance, th…