Available onlineThis ingenious show featuring Mel Giedroyc casts its audience as board members of a charity and gives them a dilemma It’s a classic question: what would you be willing to o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMAvailable onlineWhile outrage against misogyny flares up once more, this collection of audio works by the Royal Exchange theatre celebrates marginalised and unsung female figures This year,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMAvailable online Viewers collaborate to chase clues and solve a deadly mystery in the follow-up to last year’s Jury Duty Online adventure and puzzle games – the socially distanced cousin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMLeeds PlayhouseImitating the dog reinvents medieval wagon theatre for the 21st century – but it’s more of an idea than a fully fleshed out story Credit to imitating the dog for looking a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMOld Vic: In CameraThe Sherlock and Fleabag actor is transfixingly tender in Stephen Beresford’s skilful monologue, performed against an eerie, empty auditorium Three Kings is an unusually…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMRowntree Park, York This tangled monologue – delivered to a socially spaced audience with emphatic charm by Chris Hannon – is a diverting way to bring open-air theatre back to life First…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMAvailable onlineThis half-hour play about call-centre workers is an unsettlingly effective study of the isolation inflicted by coronavirus The best theatre and dance to watch online This new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMAs the writer and actor takes I, Cinna (the Poet) on to Zoom, he talks about how the pandemic may result in shaking up the structure of theatre for the better ‘I always fly the flag of li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMAvailable online Manchester’s Home stages a lockdown all-nighter exploring students’ dreams, alongside time-capsule plays about spiralling social media horrors and disrupted lives ‘We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMAvailable onlineJames Phillips’s clash of near-future and Arthurian legend imagines patriotic nostalgia taken to extremes, if your nerves can take it Extra tension is, understandably, som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMReinventing courses that rely on physical contact is a challenge, but digital training could be the perfect curtain-raiser into theatre’s brave new world Like so much else in this current …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThis experimental piece plays out in comment threads delivered direct to camera and raises important questions about theatre on the internet It’s an odd bit of coincidence that Kieran Hurl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMEveryman, LiverpoolJosie Lawrence stars in Jonathan Harvey’s story of the Domingo clan who have plenty of skeletons in their cupboards As messed up families go, the Domingos are off the ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMHope Mill theatre, ManchesterAn asteroid is hurtling towards Earth in Alison Carr’s new play, where everyone takes part in a pub quiz The local boozer might not be a bad place to wait for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMLeeds PlayhouseWith echoes of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Mel Pennant’s new play focuses on the mothers who are left behind Racism, as Mel Pennant’s new play explores, does not come …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMDeaf and disabled actors are bringing a fresh dimension to the much-loved tale in Leeds Playhouse’s new production. The creative team explain its ‘aesthetics of access’ Entering direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMNorthern Stage, Newcastle upon TyneThe Young’uns bring the astonishing true story of a working-class hero who fought against Franco to rousing musical life Five years ago, the folk band th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMHome, ManchesterThe thin line between loneliness and connection is made manifest in Gecko and Mind the Gap’s surprising show It’s apt that Gecko’s new collaboration with Mind the Gap h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterAndrew Sheridan’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel focuses on Cathy and Heathcliff’s morbid passions and has the feel of a ghost story There’s an inheren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMHope Mill theatre, ManchesterThis collection of short plays by women features vivid characters and bears the bruises of the patriarchy Vignettes is an apt title for HER Productions’ collec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMLeeds PlayhouseDavid Greig’s play about a Warsaw orphanage shows glimpses of hope in the ghetto – but, inevitably, it falls short of capturing the horror of the Holocaust Philosopher The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSheffield CrucibleAgainst a spare backdrop, the cast generate energy, comedy and romance in spades in this revival of Frank Loesser’s New York musical In turbulent political times, how can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThis year marks a new era for the York Theatre Royal panto. Well, sort of. Beloved, long-running dame Berwick Kahler may have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMYork Theatre Royal Fugard’s profound examination of a South African family ripped apart by a workplace accident is devastatingly brilliant Hello. Goodbye. These two small, unassuming words…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMStudio theatre, SheffieldSign language adds new dimensions to Charlotte Keatley’s popular play about four generations of women So much in My Mother Said I Never Should is unsaid, or half s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMLeeds PlayhouseWinsome Pinnock’s 2005 play that has been reimagined to focus on mental health asks urgent questions but yields few answers When a man steps in front of a London Underground…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMBolton Library and MuseumBeth Hyland attempts to shift the male-and-his-muse gaze in her story about misogyny in the music industry Fiction and history are littered with male artists and the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMHandle With Care, a three-week festival at Camden People’s theatre, aims to contest perceptions about millennials’ entitlement, fragility and offence-taking Handle With Care, the title …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWolves may be in the title, but tutti frutti’s children’s show is all about the sheep. Its familiar story is told by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMThe Lowry, Salford Following two friends over three decades, Daniel Kanaber’s play spans friendship, mental health and emotionally pent-up men ‘Take care of yourself,” one character gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMAs the lights come up, a crate is lowered from above, like a shipment being unloaded in the Brooklyn docks. Beneath the
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