Crucible, SheffieldDaneka Etchells is the most compelling Beatrice you might ever see in an exceptional production of the romantic comedy Post lockdown, theatres are looking for sure things …
Nottingham PlayhouseThis earnest musical, which features three sets of real twins across its cast, has a deeply moving pay-off This is an implausible musical, and you may spend the overlong …
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterHeading to the Edinburgh fringe, Justin Huertas's wildly original musical is sweet and likable but takes itself too seriously In 2004, the off-kilter American ro…
Home, ManchesterSophie Anderson's novel about a 'yaga' ushering the newly dead to the next world is put on its feet in this exuberant show Is the house going to grow chicken legs and run acr…
Leeds PlayhouseWhile unrefined, this show based on Tess Seddon's failed attempt to stand for parliament, has a heart the size of at least one of the Ridings There is a neat irony here: had T…
Hull TruckOne-liners and vernacular idiosyncrasies at the ready, the Hull-born One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean takes us back to 1971 and the founding of a local institution Ori…
Crucible, SheffieldWith hula hoops and a giant cake, this show bashes the narrative with disco glitz but keeps tragedy at its centre That the props department had to source a giant birthday …
Octagon, BoltonThe regional premiere of Vinay Patel's six-decade, three-continent story features a fantastic first professional performance from Saba Shiraz Early on in this three-act, two-i…
Studio, SheffieldRyan Calais Cameron's story of two young men who grew up together in care is flawed yet has a visceral rawness A writer singled out as a future star, Ryan Calais Cameron (Ty…
Leeds PlayhouseAfter a run at the Tokyo Olympics, this production arrives in Britain with every ounce of humour and verve exploited to the full A witty retelling of a classic that leaves no …
Crucible, SheffieldThis story of loneliness and romantic disappointment is not obvious Christmas show material but has a lot to say about the season An attempted suicide, characters in the g…
Derby theatreJim Hawkins becomes a young woman (or two) in this joyous but flawed adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale While this is a sometimes flawed production, with an occ…
The Civic, BarnsleyProper Job's staging of Kafka's unfinished novel has a watchable lead and some cracking jokes, but leaves us short on connection There is a clue about what is to come befo…
Leeds PlayhouseFor a tale of the undead, Imitating the Dog's inventive blend of live theatre and tech is bursting with life Having tackled zombies in its most recent production, Night of the…
Crucible, SheffieldA group of female prisoners come together for a concert in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's energetic and joyful play You wait three years for a new Morgan Lloyd Malcolm play and t…
As a boy, Nick Ahad idolised the wrestlers he saw on Saturday TV. Now he has revisited the sport's northern heartland in Glory, a state-of-the-nation play that captures the thrill of the rin…
Christopher Biggins arrives on stage as Widow Twankey in a cake emblazoned with a great 20â„¢ and the curtain call ends with
As the only brown person in the room at The Glang Show, I couldn't shake a sense of otherness when a quip turned sourI'm a few months into a new career as a standup comedian. I've had some l…
Ask anyone who has trained with Philippe Gaulier: clowning is seriously hard work. A reminder of just how hard comes in Keepy
With his background writing for Coronation Street, playwright Ben Tagoe knows how to crank up the tension in a confined space. With
In the 50th anniversary year of Bolton's Octagon Theatre, current artistic director Elizabeth Newman has invited back previous holders of the role
The Bradford Alhambra pantomime, part of the Qdos stable, is one of the biggest in the country and this year it doesn't