Sunday, July 27, 2025
Grosvenor Park, ChesterThe debonair detective heads north for this breezily daft mystery featuring a missing masterpiece, vicious nuns and a full-bodied rendition of I Will Survive
We think …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2025
As Brendan Gleeson prepares for his role in a revival of the 1997 hit, the stars of earlier productions toast its deceptively moving and profound barfly banter
Appearances are deceptive. On…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
Tron theatre, GlasgowDouglas Maxwell's monologue about a dog walker moves from lighthearted to maudlin as it evokes a world in limbo
A few blocks down the road on Argyle Street, a stall is p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere, the joy of pickling, a landmark jazz album and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
Pitlochry Festival theatreRichard Baron and Ellie Zeegen's play follows the writer from wide-eyed child discovering nature in rural Scotland to feisty care-home resident
The title comes fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeIsabella Rossi, making her debut, gives Arthur Berry's drama of working-class life a burst of colour and energy
The first word ever spoken on the New Vic stage w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Various venues, Edinburgh Delightful shows for youngsters include surreally inventive shadowplay and backstage chaos, while Greg Sinclair brings tricky phrases to life using a cake and someo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 18, 2025
Horden Methodist Church, County DurhamEnsemble '84 generate an exhilarating racket in this gutsy rendition of Brecht's play about the thirty years' war
The noise is constant. It is in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2025
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Martin Green's play, set in a village still traumatised by the miners' strike, follows a young musician under pressure from all sides
Towards the end of Martin Green'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Collaboration with Thom Yorke is worth hype in tragedy played with clarity and verve
In all the hype around the collaborators on this co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PM[SHARE]Live theatre, NewcastleThe Tyne and Wear Metro is the setting of Emilie Robson's evocative new play about two teen friends but something darker rumbles beneath
Emilie Robson's insinuating ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
Tron theatre, GlasgowA quick-witted trio star in three plays, in roles ranging from an Ulster unionist Homer Simpson to a pandemic prophet
If you were the gambling kind, you would have hedge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Perth theatreTwo working-class lads become modern-day highwaymen in this adaptation of the Scottish film but the plentiful songs slow down the story
One of the stories British cinema loves t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2025
Tron theatre, GlasgowMartin O'Connor's witty and provocative show casts the 18th-century equivalent of the Hitler Diaries in a fresh light
Martin O'Connor calls it "the first Outlander effe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2025
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Ambitious adaptation of Powell and Pressburger's romantic fantasy is intelligently rendered, with well-chosen music added to the period mix
The propaganda brief…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Òran Mór, GlasgowMasculine pals who shudder at intimacy help grieving addict Donny find viral success and unlikely solace in this brilliant, funny three-hander
Your standard group-the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2025
Loch Ness Monster hunters have included the Chuckle Brothers " and even David Lean. As the Scottish icon is honoured in a new stamp and a stirring musical, we separate the classy from the cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2025
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAdapted from the film, this vibrant show has plenty of joyful foot-stomping, with a star who gives us the raw fragility behind the fanfare
If you can't be sentimental …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 9, 2025
Pavilion theatre, GlasgowA fine cast capture the emotional damage and inarticulate anger at the lie they have all been sold in this taut no-nonsense production
He lies to gain status. His e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2025
Everyman, LiverpoolBack at the theatre where it premiered in 1986, Willy Russell's play about a midlife voyage of self-discovery retains both its local and universal appeal
There is a marvel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2025
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe new joint boss of the Royal Shakespeare Company makes an impetuous king in Daniel Raggett's production of Marlowe's history play
The temptation is to see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotElizabeth Godber and Nick Lane relocate Shakespeare's comedy of abstinence to the throbbing heart of 90s hedonism
Standards have declined. When Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2025
Perth theatre, ScotlandNicola Werenowska's enterprising adaptation tackles DH Lawrence's novel back to front
Adapting a novel is rarely straightforward and playwright Nicola Werenowska take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2025
Veteran director, who originally opposed adapting 1967 film for the stage, is 'very proud' as Menier Chocolate Factory production will move to London's Garrick theatre
The Menier Chocolate F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tron theatre, GlasgowJemima Levick's superb production sets Arthur Miller's tale of family, immigration, poverty and passion in the modern-day Brooklyn docks
Is it an innocent domestic momen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
Tramway, GlasgowSandy Grierson is astonishing as a talking monkey working in a Japanese bathhouse in this slight but theatrically beguiling slice of magical-realism
Mizuki Ando has a distres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Live theatre, NewcastleA South Shields family are torn by opposing forces as Ishy Din cleverly taps into the emotive memories of a weekend in the summer of 1977
It is a reasonable question. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
Hull Truck theatreSnappy movement and a Billy Nomates score can't make up for the lack of emotional range in this portrait of the 18th-century writer
It was quite a life. Having escaped a vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterHiding behind the fluttering dialogue and domestic chatter lies a dark poetry in a pair of plays that address terrifying futures head on
Last month, wildfir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Royal Court, LiverpoolBubbling with quirky detail, Sarah Whitehead's full-length debut captures the contradictions of close relationships between sisters without sentimentality
The past hang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghJohn Douglas Thompson is a commanding Shylock in a vision of an apparently benign city where tolerance buckles all too quickly
He likes a bit of a laugh, this Shylock…
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