Friday, August 7, 2026
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh Quaz Degraft draws on his knowledge of high finance for these misadventures in a material, misogynist worldYou don’t hear much about the American dream…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith characteristic wit, Dan Bishop’s comedy develops from a jolly send-up of the vacuous TV industry into a politically astute play about power‘I’ve neve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Beginning his career as an actor, Gill went on to write plays including The York Realist as well as directing for the Royal Court and National TheatreTributes have been paid to the director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2026
Pitlochry Festival theatre Following its star through rehearsals and squabbles with her director, this is modelled on Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine but it’s no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2026
Birmingham RepWith tremendous singing from Ramin Karimloo and Meow Meow, Joe Murphy’s superb staging of the story is full of dark gothic humourStephen Sondheim was drawn to fairytales – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
Nottingham PlayhouseThe camaraderie and eccentricities of some model railway enthusiasts make for an endearing group portrait in William Ivory’s well-gauged comedyBefore the play begins, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Royal Exchange, ManchesterA celebration of the cartoonist’s sexual awakening and queer identity as well as an investigation of darker family dynamics, this soulful show wears its heart on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
Pitlochry Festival theatreMaureen Beattie leads a modern-dress version, which focuses on family dynamics rather than the decline of Shakespeare’s mighty rulerYou know when you walk into a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2026
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough This celebratory show by Tim Firth and Gary Barlow delivers emotional openness alongside cracking jokesOne of the great qualities of Calendar Girls is its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Utopia theatre, Sheffield Mojisola Kareem’s excellent production makes no concessions to this 50-seat space, bringing grand historical scope to a story of Nigeria in transitionUtopia is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2026
Pitlochry Festival theatreWriter Douglas Maxwell’s playful conceit sparks a funny and superbly acted exploration of messy relationships There is a clever conceit underlying Douglas Maxwell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2026
Òran Mór, Glasgow Nay Dhanak’s clownish tale follows an odd couple struggling to live up to their roles passing news from royal power to the publicWe are in a medieval world of portentou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35AM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2026
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe novel is adapted with equal parts wit and horror to capture the depravity of a notorious crime in GlasgowOn the bare brick wall backing Jen McGinley’s set – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
Plays about political extremes, religious sects, swimming the Channel and an 80th birthday party are among the highlights at this summer’s arts spectacularProducer Francesca Moody has show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2026
Pitlochry festival theatreThis stripped-down show with a maudlin set of songs makes for the most reluctant of musicals, but this is a production that has the confidence to be silent or state…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2026
Citizens theatre, GlasgowBased on her real observations of the civil uprising, Mariem Omari’s play looks at its humanitarian impactIn less volatile times, the memory of the Arab spring wou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PM[SHARE]Royal Exchange, Manchester Rory Mullarkey’s play, expertly directed by James Macdonald, is a bold attempt to encapsulate a whole city in decisive events from across three centuriesThe them…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Live theatre, NewcastleIn Shelagh Stephenson’s spiky comedy, Virginia Woolf and Mary Astell become celestial companions, discussing religion, science and independenceMary Astell is not kno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDawn Steele stars in Ron Ferguson’s warm-hearted tale of a town whose fortunes are tied to those of its coal mine and local teamBlack diamonds are what they used to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Perth theatreAside from a brief pre-shoot ‘discussion’, this take on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film has little to offer – despite some fine performancesOver the past decade or so, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2026
Lowry, Salford The tale of a Burnley businessman who gives his town a financial leg-up overeggs the north-south cultural divide, but Pippa Cleary’s bright musical numbers propel the positi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2026
Everyman theatre, LiverpoolBeginning as a culture clash comedy with cups of tea and deadly intent, this two-hander becomes boldly arrestingIf you want someone to credit for the big laughs in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
Theatre Royal, York Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s story of high competition in a long family line of female stage tricksters loses its powers as it goes onSheila Gold, suppo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Tron theatre, Glasgow Frances Poet’s music-driven drama reconstructs the Greenock dispute that saw 240 workers square up to bosses It was the early days of the Thatcher project. At the sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2026
Royal Court theatre, LiverpoolWriter-actor Aron Julius captures the sparkling charm of Liverpudlian fighter John Conteh in a punch-by-punch account of his careerDon King is singing the prais…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
Traverse theatre, EdinburghJess Brodie's monologue about life on the brink of parenthood is both witty and gripping
There are few transitions in life more profound than becoming a parent. Ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2026
Curve, LeicesterTwo prisoners escape their grim Buenos Aires jail into golden age fantasy sequences that elicit big belting showtunes from Anna-Jane Casey's baddie
Kander and Ebb's early-90s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]It was the play that rocked a nation. The makers of the devastating drama, which transported theatre-goers from a Fife pub to a war zone, recall how it grew and grew
Within six months of its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeA residents' association fights to save its housing in Bob Eaton's jolly slice of social history, with a live band belting out the songs
At some point in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2026
Dundee RepCumming and Forbes Masson revive their cult 1994 TV sitcom with brilliant songs and a Beano-esque plot as budget Air Scotia is threatened with takeover
If someone tells you this mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
Tron, GlasgowThe life-and-death choices that a stressed-out nurse faces on a short-staffed weekend are taken to gothic heights in this intense, atmospheric play
The standard colour scheme fo…
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