Available online Forest Fringe release a jolly bunch of downloadable plays, games and diversions to inject some performance into lockdown life Forest Fringe have never been one for conventio…
Yard theatre, Hackney WickThis all-day online festival included a one-to-one performance over the phone, a Ghanaian cook-along and a virtual after-party Hottest front-room seats: the best t…
Available onlineForced Entertainment improvise online conversations that cut to the confusion and frustrations of lockdown Hottest front-room seats: best theatre and dance online Forced Ente…
The annual extravaganza was moved ingeniously online for a weekend of shows united in their celebration of togetherness The best theatre and dance to watch online The best arts and entertai…
Alan Ayckbourn's orchestra decamped to the pub, Lynn Nottage's social satire became all too real, and April De Angelis is still angry with her critics Alan Ayckbourn on Jeeves (1975) Continu…
Available onlineMind the Gap's enormous outdoor production boldly tackles the stigma faced by a mum with learning disabilities ' Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watc…
Available onlineJohn Gielgud's 1964 production of Shakespeare's play haunts this meta-spectacle that questions the nature of performance In these times when "too, too solid flesh" is somethi…
Gate theatre, London Sylvan Oswald gives a dystopian twist to the French essayist's ideas on borders to explore modern gender politics This show is almost as impenetrable as its full title: …
The Canadian performer's controversial show Daughter is coming to London. Its brutal gut-punch experience is not for everyone When Adam Lazarus complained about a seven-year-old boy putting …
With their passion for the immediacy of new writing, Paines Plough's new joint artistic directors Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett tell Kate
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough Beth Flintoff rewrites the narrative of the woman killed in the Red Barn, focusing on her wit and ferocity rather than her notorious death The history boo…
Salisbury PlayhouseEmmet Byrne is superb in this relocated update of the Spanish classic but it lacks the fire of the original Barney Norris tames Lorca's Spanish tragedy in this gentle adap…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFlat insults, bland puns and painful verse let down this staging of Shakespeare's problematic play, which charges ahead without a trace of satire There is no …
Theatre Royal PlymouthSix characters stalk the stage with boxes in the company's anniversary show, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham I Think We Are Alone marks the 25th anniversary…
Birmingham RepThis adaptation of Louise O'Neill's novel has all the right intentions but offers cliches instead of real insight This sexual assault drama is entirely void of hope. A transfer…
Taking a break from goofy sitcoms, the actor is sounding the climate-crisis alarm in Caryl Churchill's Far Away. She talks about finding hope in a violent dystopia 'You're in a world in whic…
The first rule of mime club? You do not talk. Well, not when you're hard at work. Our writer takes lessons from Marcel Marceau's former student, Nola Rae Early on in mime school, I hit a bri…
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog recreate the groundbreaking 1968 horror film live on stage with remarkable results This extraordinary shot-by-shot remake of George Romero's 1968 cult horror…
Royal Court, LondonMiriam Battye's play has some astute insights, but the friendship at its centre doesn't seem worth fighting for Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird taught us that love and attention …
Having lit many shows in her 15-year career, Prema Mehta took on the challenge of using solely candles at the wood-panelled theatre.
In 2019, Told by an Idiot launched the Naomi Wilkinson Award for female stage designers. Winner Ioana Curelea tells Kate Wyver about
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA missed opportunity to satirise modern politics, this show resorts to panto for its obvious parodies and easy laughs We get it: dictators are bad. Roughly assimi…
Soho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity Hilarious, sincere, sexy and bruta…
New Diorama theatre, LondonBreach Theatre's hilariously heretical satire of medieval mystery plays is a celebration of queer voices and a fine alternative Christmas show Breach Theatre works…
Secret location, LondonIn this immersive show we are promised a globetrotting night of drugs and sex … but are left loitering in a living room The best immersive theatre makes its audience…