Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA hard-up dramatist is determined to pay tribute to her mum in Kelly Jones's deftly handled play, produced by Paines Plough In Michel Tremblay's Le Vrai Mon…
Traverse, EdinburghA couple visit a bereaved friend only to find a surprise awaits in Douglas Maxwell's comedy of social embarrassment Instead of Chekhov's gun, we have Maxwell's whisky. The…
Summerhall, EdinburghWith big hair, long dress and Appalachian accent, Charlene Boyd finds common voice with the singer in a personal and political show The most powerful country songs are t…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe schoolboys from the 2018 comedy Square Go are back and on their way to a disco with high hopes and fears On the way out, I hear someone tell his friends he had been …
Summerhall, EdinburghWriter and actor Sam Ward dissects how a community breaks down in this vivid one-man show It is not the kind of topicality Sam Ward would have wished for, but the curren…
Traverse, Edinburgh When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked At one p…
Traverse, EdinburghThe actor-playwright trims Rostand's classic and plays the lead with charisma in a breezy, feelgood show The joy of Virginia Gay's irreverent version of the Edmond Rostand…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh In Eline Arbo's taut production of the neo-classical play, Ilke Paddenburg's Amazon queen presents a fearsome clash of sensuality and aggression When two tribes go to…
Traverse, EdinburghJoanne Ryan's two-hander, inspired by her own story and brilliantly performed by Pom Boyd and Karen McCartney, elevates everyday family dynamics with a light touch The str…
Traverse, Edinburgh In this story by Oliver Emanuel, posthumously presented with songs by Gareth Watkins, a couple's romance is told through the paper trail it leaves When Oliver Emanuel was…
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghVicky Featherstone's directing and Isis Hainsworth's fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer's introspective journey to sobri…
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…