Friday, July 26, 2024
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�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, July 25, 2024
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 Carr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMFriday, July 5, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, June 30, 2024
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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, June 27, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, June 20, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, June 17, 2024
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 bor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, June 16, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMShakespeare 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMVarious 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, May 24, 2024
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 h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, May 20, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
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 c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMMonday, May 13, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMTron 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’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMThursday, April 25, 2024
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 mac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
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 hidd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, April 19, 2024
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 Bha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThursday, April 18, 2024
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThursday, April 11, 2024
Festival theatre studio, EdinburghCatriona Faint’s witty performance as a pragmatist caught up in fanatical times is the heart of the latest historical drama from Rona Munro’s James Play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, March 24, 2024
Traverse theatre, EdinburghA former police officer with muscular dystrophy fights a grotesquely bureaucratic system in this subversive satirical broadside
It is 2037 and the government has i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickSeán Aydon’s laboured attempts to shriek the play into life with overstated and almost unintelligible clowning only serves to flatten Richard Brinsley Sheridan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, March 14, 2024
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot In novelist Philippa Gregory’s telling, the much maligned king reveals a more human side amid rather too much exposition
If you wanted to invent a fun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Amanda Whittington’s sequel to Ladies’ Day sends her characters off to Australia for an enjoyable range of epiphanies
It is 2007 and the four women who stru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThursday, March 7, 2024
Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday
Sean Holmes, director, The Sea (2000…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Lawrence Batley theatre, HuddersfieldA superb Meg Lewis plays three characters losing touch with reality in Billie Collins’s play about a market-driven world
When ThickSkin announced this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, February 19, 2024
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig’s entertaining and immaculately performed new play is about adults seduced by memories of their own emotionally heightened teenage pasts
Two Sisters smel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM 
