Various venues, EdinburghFor children wondering what their parents do all day, many of the delightful shows programmed here will show them that they're not really so grown up How curious to …
Pitlochry festival theatreMama Rose drags her two daughters from one vaudeville fleapit to the next in a bulldozer of a role There's something of the Mother Courage about Mama Rose. Like Ber…
The writer of the acclaimed Patricia Gets Ready… returns with a lockdown-inspired comedy drama about a drug dealer having a power cut The trigger for a play can be many things: a moral dil…
Alphabetti theatre, NewcastleDegna Stone's ambitious play moves from the imperial to the domestic in its exploration of the legacy of untruths You can't fault playwright Degna Stone for ambi…
Traverse, EdinburghGary McNair delivers verbatim interviews and misremembered Connolly routines from ordinary people in this love letter There is an air of Nick Park's Creature Comforts abou…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghLesley Hart's adaptation of the classic novel is driven with tremendous energy following its tragic heroine as she discards bourgeois convention It must be Saturday be…
Northern Stage, NewcastleThis show for young audiences builds to a stirring drama of waking up to injustice and trying to right it Hannah Lavery constructs her play from simple sentences. He…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCorey Campbell's impressionistic production can lose focus but it benefits from engaging performances We never get to see Vivienne Mavis Taylor in this devised prod…
Royal Court, LiverpoolAn inspired parody of coming-out dramas meets a deliciously daft plot involving Sonia in Jonathan Harvey's comedy Who would have thought Jonathan Harvey would write a s…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeShould we sympathise with Hayley Carmichael's irascible radio soap star as she risks being axed, or condemn her as she bullies her young vulnerable young…
Traverse, Edinburgh Calum L Macleòid's western-style drama pits a gunslinging Elspeth Turner against a notorious fugitive in a peculiarly Scottish corner of Canada On the back wall of Bec…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickAn eight-strong cast and a revolving stage take us on an extraordinary adventure for adults and kids, with time-keeping as a theme Jules Verne's 1872 novel traded…
Beacon Arts Centre, GreenockThere's an optimal mix of irreverence and affection in this bracing adaptation of the swashbuckling classic With the long-running Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of),…
Home, ManchesterWriter-director Yusra Warsama relocates The House of Bernarda Alba from AndalucÃa to Manchester What imprisons the characters of Federico GarcÃa Lorca's The House of Be…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterModern-day version casts Tennessee Williams's steamy melodrama in a new light, with a focus on the corruptibility of wealth Roy Alexander Weise does not overtly cha…
Nottingham PlayhouseSamson Hawkins's debut is part Jerusalem part This Country, bringing big laughs while asking serious questions about identity nostalgia and modernity Is it too soon to jo…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryMojisola Adebayo's play connects Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used in decades of vital scientific research, with the Black Lives Matter movement 'I am a farm,"…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghKatie Posner directs a high-voltage cast in playwright Ahlam's politically charged portrayal of a group of teens coming of age in post-Arab spring Cairo We view moment…
Everyman theatre, LiverpoolThe drama of women trying to get ahead in Thatcher's Britain is played with kitsch period detail that can distract from its still-relevant story Some plays go thro…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotThis cartoonish update of Shakespeare's reunion tale, gleefully mixing in Madonna and modern language, has a great sense of fun The Wars of the Roses are …
Live theatre, NewcastleIn 1996, campaigners in the north-east are watching their values being written out of Labour politics. But at least Kevin Keegan seems to be winning Tony Blair is on t…
Alphabetti theatre, NewcastleIn Alfie Heffer's frightening play, theatregoers become recruitment reps as a candidate is put through her paces In the late 1800s, Frederick Winslow Taylor set …
Home, ManchesterThe star performs with a musician's sense of rhythm in this alternately arch and elegiac piece by Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel about a bereaved brother attempting to reconn…
Northern Stage, NewcastleThe family front room becomes a battleground in Anders Lustgarten's play of ideas about class, politics and compassion At some point between the decline of British i…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghZinnie Harris's reworking has Macbeth's wife driving the plot, rationalising a grisly campaign, while he becomes unbalanced by their murderous path To summon up witch…