Available onlineCumming, Val McDermid and others explore pandemic life in this series from National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC During the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in…
Available onlineThere are a string of cartoonish events and a jangly slice of chart-topping indie pop in this play about missed opportunities Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and d…
Available onlineJack Nurse and Robbie Gordon debate the problems and prudishness surrounding pornography in a lively audio play adapted from the stage Stories to Connect Us is the name given…
Available onlineDarkfield's eerie two-person sound experience is a gothic horror that ingeniously overcomes the usual pitfalls of online theatre 'This is supposed to be a controlled space, a…
Available onlinePerformed live on YouTube and Instagram, this play's study of bling, hedonism and vacuous consumption stands in starker relief than ever WhatsApp pings with a message from my…
Available onlineMixing existential soul-searching with wry comedy, this is an adventurous production starring its viewers Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online The stor…
Available onlineWinsome Pinnock's play, responding to JMW Turner's Slave Ship painting, is a timely contribution to the Black Lives Matter campaign Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre…
The playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak 'We never ask the right question of the…
Available onlineIan Rankin's stalwart detective struggles with self-isolation in one of six quarantine-themed short films from the National Theatre of Scotland Hottest front-room seats: the …
Available onlineAndré Sills dominates the stage as a leader hungry for battle in Robert Lepage's up-to-date take on Shakespeare's tragedy Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and dance on…
Available onlineFrom a violent prisoner to a haunted children's entertainer, these up-close-and-personal new monologues by Rona Munro show us characters in retreat from the outside world ' H…
Available onlineMercury Theatre Colchester and St Helens Theatre Royal have both launched online pantomimes for isolated audiences Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to wa…
The world's biggest arts festival is loved for its camaraderie and inspiration. This feels like cancelling Christmas " but performers will respond creatively The story used to be about how e…
Available online A controlling fool in love comes across more like a sexual predator in this engagingly perceptive Stéphane Braunschweig production for France's Théâtre de l'Odéon Fron…
As venues close due to Covid-19, there's a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn's 'undirectable' collage Coronavirus and culture " a list …
Pitlochry Festival theatreJessica Hardwick and Olivier Huband are compelling as a young couple facing harsh realities once their honeymoon ends It's the second half of Neil Simon's comedy wh…
Tron, GlasgowKafka's story is given a chilling update that chimes with our times, referencing the migrant crisis, the gig economy and fear of the unknown Of all the shows to have been affect…
Leeds PlayhouseAfter being told one too many times to 'cheer up, love', Andrea Heaton's Lisa lashes out and is sent to a finishing school to suppress ideas of resistance We're basically poli…
Cast, DoncasterCompassion triumphs over prejudice in Richard Cameron's play about pit workers who form a close-harmony combo One of the stipulations of the Bechdel test, designed to measure …
Leeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach's excellent production for Ramps on the Moon Brooklyn Melvin's Oliver has a ferocious roar but n…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland's landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine C…
Dundee RepTitle-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches He was the manager described by one player as a "football perv…
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxShakespeare meets Richard Curtis in the play that gave its name to the chocolates, carried by boisterous performances and sweet-wrapper chic As the new artistic direc…
Byre theatre, St AndrewsThis imaginative adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's gothic fable amps up the physical storytelling with comic results When my daughter was very young she develop…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonModern-day echoes resound in Alistair Beaton's adaptation of the novel about tiny acts of rebellion in 1940s Germany 'The plan…" says Anna Quangel (Charlotte…