Prestonpans Town HallCutting between austerity-hit East Lothian today and the battlefields of the 1930s anti-fascist volunteers, this gutsy play reveals the complexity of righteous crusading…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghZinnie Harris reframes the tragedy to take in the consequences of male violence, as Kirsty Stuart's duchess provides a defiant centre They're a pathetic lot, the men w…
Tron, GlasgowJemima Levick revives this tale about three sisters coming of age with wit and charm The clue is in the socks. We're faced by three girls, identical in their yellow coats, red b…
SSE Hydro, GlasgowThe renaissance man's song-and-dance spectacular skips merrily through his acting career with celebrity pizzazz and unashamed sentimentality Is there a market Hugh Jackman …
Perth theatreMorna Young's personal tale of trawlermen risking their lives for pay evokes the romance and brutal realism of the sea Margaret Thatcher's greed-is-good ethos left its mark on e…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeIn this revival of Lizzie Nunnery's debut about a family in the 19th-century Liverpool slums, misery is piled upon misery " for the audience and the characters L…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSarah Frankcom and Aletta Collins ditch Jerome Robbins' choreography and keeps the stakes high in a superb production For more than 60 years, productions of West Si…
Theatre By the Lake, KeswickHoward Brenton's no-nonsense translation of Strindberg's astute drama charts the marriage of a failed artist and his more successful wife Adolf is in the midst o…
SWG3, GlasgowOriginally planned to coincide with the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the National Theatre of Scotland's night of cabaret and comedy was performed under a sombre cloud Imagine or…
In a defiant riposte to president Bolsonaro and intolerance, performers at São Paulo's international theatre festival are reclaiming the rights to be seen and to be different If ever ther…
Tramway, Glasgow Stef Smith's excellent adaptation has Noras experience economic and emotional pressures through history There are three door frames and three cavernous pathways to an uncert…
Yang Sing restaurant, ManchesterThis rich, dreamlike play feeds body and soul as it chronicles the complex lives of migrants from China Cheung Wing is looking back over his life. He's been t…
Dukes, LancasterThree young fighters grapple with a world of blue-eyed heroes and foreign-looking villains in Nick Ahad's witty play Real life has a way of sneaking into the theatre. Only da…
Traverse, EdinburghKwaku Mills is a revelation as a boy growing up amid poverty in this touring revival of Arinzé Kene's crackling, compelling monologueImagine an inner-city version of Unde…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeBeatrice and Benedick engage in heartwarming hostilities in Northern Broadsides' rich and rewarding productionRobin Simpson's Benedick has just been dupe…
The Manipulate festival in Scotland has surreal square dances, puppetry without puppets and jaw-dropping human landscapesIn between shows at the Manipulate festival, a veteran arts producer …
Derby theatreSabrina Mahfouz has impressively distilled the inspired novel about a world where the power rests with the black populationAt the heart of Malorie Blackman's young adult novel i…
Hull TruckDementia drama and Jacobean bloodbath sit uneasily alongside each other in a reworking of King Lear during the fishing industry's dying daysThey're a hard-bitten lot, the Lear sist…
The national theatres of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have all caused a stir about what they represent. How should they reflect a country's identity?They had Richard Eyre on the radi…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeAn immersive show for the under-fives strikes gold and acts as a primer for Peter Leslie Wild's inventive and boisterous main stage productionAs is often the cas…
Hull TruckA sumptuous choral score is key to this slick, polished production featuring an impressive female Fagin and tightly drilled young companyThe statistics about the working poor in Th…
From Victorian penury to Caribbean party music, new productions at Leeds Playhouse and Northern Stage in Newcastle revisit Dickens's festive favouriteIt isn't only the ghosts of Christmases …
Traverse, EdinburghKieran Hurley's gripping Edinburgh-set two-hander confronts the economic divide in the city and the stranglehold the middle-classes have on the artsKieran Hurley's provoca…
Pantomime legend Johnny McKnight does his usual festive double, starring in Mammy Goose at the Tron in Glasgow " and writing Sleepin' Cutie at Macrobert, StirlingIs pantomime a reactionary f…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghElla Hickson's adaptation of JM Barrie's story is a funny and heartbreaking coming-of-age tale for its swashbuckling heroinePeter Pan is as much a concept as a charact…