Monday, May 11, 2026
Dudley Town HallWith bits about Prince, Tiswas, his Jamaican family and his long career, the standup treads familiar ground and the home-town crowd love itIn this new standup show – his fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
Leeds PlayhouseFeaturing stellar performances across the cast, Matthew Xia's production breathes new life into Andrea Levy's sprawling family saga
A novel from more than two decades ago, tel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2026
Dramatising Onjali Q Raúf's refugee tale The Boy at the Back of the Class brought cheers and boos from a young audience " showing they can handle the truth
I'd never heard of The Boy at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2025
Liverpool PlayhouseThe story becomes less and less relevant as this slapstick monster pastiche leads to an irresistible sense of chaos
When a film as perfect as Mel Brooks's Young Frankenste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Lowry, Salford Reprise of Graham Duff's cult comedy delights the series' fans but there's not much here for anyone else
If you are a fan of the cult BBC Three sitcom Ideal, you should immedi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
York Theatre RoyalWith an 80-strong cast, this moving play about social reformer Seebohm Rowntree finds a universal message in the most local of stories
There are myriad reasons why this par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2025
Leeds PlayhouseChris O'Connor's comedy-drama unites a paean to former Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa with the story of a married couple living with dementia during the club's promotion season …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
Everyman, LiverpoolNathan Powell sets out his stall with a crowd-pleasing play about intergenerational tensions in a Caribbean cafe
This play by Nathan Powell, appointed creative director at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2024
Crucible, SheffieldWith few directorial flourishes and a compelling central performance, this bare-bones version of the domestic drama gives the story its full due
Perhaps the best thing to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2024
The Lowry, SalfordThe original magic that made the play the most successful in the National Theatre's history still holds, with its visceral impact perhaps now more relevant than ever
Joey,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
Royal Exchange, ManchesterJill Halfpenny and Rowan Robinson star in a revival of the 1958 play, staged near its setting of Salford
Gather a group of writers together and they will soon be co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
Crucible, SheffieldDirector Anthony Lau brings his fiercely rigorous intellect to bear on this intensely felt love story, with standout performances from Simon Manyonda and Anoushka Lucas
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2024
A Colchester theatre is picking works out of a hat. In a defunded and exclusive sector, at least someone will get a chance
Nick Ahad is a presenter for BBC Radio 4's Front Row and the author…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog follow their innovative Dracula and Night of the Living Dead with a version of Shelley's classic that bolts on a contemporary story about impending parenthoo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2024
Adapting Onjali Q Raúf's novel for the stage proved a challenge but her refugee story, which has a new nod to Harper Lee, is both urgent and unforgettable
When I was young, my Bangladeshi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2023
The organisation's incoming artistic director shares plans to tour a 'massive immersive experience' to empty spaces across the country
It might not have dominated the headlines quite like In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Manchester Opera House Show built around Stock Aitken Waterman's songs flies so long as the pop classics are playing
Having been born at the end of the 1970s and come of age in the 1980s, or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2023
Crucible, Sheffield It takes a while to get going but when it hits its straps, thanks to the cast's skilful handling of farce, Sarah Tipple's production from the Roger McGough translation be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterTanika Gupta brings authority and nuance to her adaptation, exploring class, colonialism, partition and invasion " and finding unexpected resonance
The Sout…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonTanika Gupta's historical drama has only got more relevant since 2013, but there's an awful lot of migration stories to get through in three hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2023
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterAn updated version of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's 1974 satire speaks to our times but also suffers from a lack of cohesion
It is quite startling to witness j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2023
Maxine Peake and Christopher Eccleston among performers as venue put on final show after losing Arts Council funding
In the end, if indeed it is the end (many on stage would have you believe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
Crucible, Sheffield Anthony Lau brings rich cultural authenticity to the stinging China-set capitalist critique " as well as slides and giant frogs
The success of Everything Everywhere All A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Crucible, SheffieldDaneka Etchells is the most compelling Beatrice you might ever see in an exceptional production of the romantic comedy
Post lockdown, theatres are looking for sure things …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Nottingham PlayhouseThis earnest musical, which features three sets of real twins across its cast, has a deeply moving pay-off
This is an implausible musical, and you may spend the overlong …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterHeading to the Edinburgh fringe, Justin Huertas's wildly original musical is sweet and likable but takes itself too seriously
In 2004, the off-kilter American ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2022
Home, ManchesterSophie Anderson's novel about a 'yaga' ushering the newly dead to the next world is put on its feet in this exuberant show
Is the house going to grow chicken legs and run acr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2022
Leeds PlayhouseWhile unrefined, this show based on Tess Seddon's failed attempt to stand for parliament, has a heart the size of at least one of the Ridings
There is a neat irony here: had T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 27, 2022
Hull TruckOne-liners and vernacular idiosyncrasies at the ready, the Hull-born One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean takes us back to 1971 and the founding of a local institution
Ori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 11, 2022
Crucible, SheffieldWith hula hoops and a giant cake, this show bashes the narrative with disco glitz but keeps tragedy at its centre
That the props department had to source a giant birthday …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 10, 2022
Octagon, BoltonThe regional premiere of Vinay Patel's six-decade, three-continent story features a fantastic first professional performance from Saba Shiraz
Early on in this three-act, two-i…
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