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 08:18AMWilliamson 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 07:02AMTheatre 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 08:48AMTron 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 10:06AMPitlochry 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 06:24AMActor 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 04:12AMRoyal 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 07:36AMOctagon, 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 03:12AMEveryman, 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 06:36AMThe 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 08:12AMLive 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 08:48AMPlaywright 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 08:12PMAviva 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 08:02AMBirmingham 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 07:02AMThe 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 03:03AMLine 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 02:48AMEveryman, 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 09:06AMStage@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 07:06AMNottingham 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 06:42AMRoyal 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 05:54AMFestival 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 09:42AMTraverse 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 04:36PMTheatre 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 09:24AMShakespeare 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 10:24AMNew 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 08:12AMMarianne 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 03:32AMLawrence 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 07:18AMRoyal 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…
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