Royal Court, LiverpoolPlaying the feted Liverpool FC manager, Mullan leads a bustling new stage version of David Peace's 2013 novel Moments before Red or Dead begins, we watch Peter Mullan w…
Octagon, BoltonSarah Brigham's new production is beautifully designed but struggles to capture the drama's claustrophobic tension Before it got into the hands of readers, John Steinbeck's 19…
Oldham Coliseum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldhamafshan d'souza-lodhi's play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion Seven months after th…
King's Arms, SalfordDavid Thacker's production of the Irish playwright's ambiguous play is over-emphatic in parts but transfixing in quieter moments This is how it always goes for Frank Hard…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterJosh Seymour's production of the 90s musical about Viv Nicholson's big win, and how she spent it, leaves you feeling a bit short-changed Just like that, £152,000…
Everyman, LiverpoolThis 'rock'n'roll' panto is far from Grimm, but not in a good way Somewhere within this show's knot of plot twists and tangles, you may find Rapunzel. While it is traditio…
53two, ManchesterIn a lively revival of this 2009 tussle between love and identity, its barbed verbal sparring overcomes the slightly dated sexual dynamics How charged and potent words can b…
Royal Court, LiverpoolStaged in their hometown, the true story of one of the first all-female rock bands is told with low stakes, though the singing is great Despite being one of the world's…
Satirical musicals are trending at this year's fringe, but there are plenty of intense one-person shows too, a knockout coming-of-age drama, and the unmissable return of Every Brilliant Thin…
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThe streets could be meaner in this new stage adaptation, which is at its best when exploring the challenges of the immigrant experience Sprays of liq…
Royal Court, LiverpoolSet in a covent and a prison, Jonathan Harvey's knockabout new play is full of sledgehammer innuendo Jonathan Harvey's new play could make even the least pious nun clu…
Stanley theatre; Toxteth Reservoir, LiverpoolDenis Lavant is remarkable as old man Krapp in Beckett's minor masterpiece, while Adrian Dunbar shrouds his short radio play in total darkness Ad…
Review: The System, The Original Theatre Company3.0Overall ScoreThe System is out to set a world record. The world record for "the longest, live single take with a steadicam." We're told abo…
Today we're speaking to Evelyn Roberts, the mastermind behind a new Shakespeare festival in Manchester. It promises audiences some light relief and definitely no stuffyness. For all the dive…
Review: Bottom's Dream and Twelfth Night, The GOAT Mcr 3.0Overall Score Manchester audiences don't have to travel back in time to Ancient Greece to see live theatre in an amphitheatre. The n…
The writer of Anna X, which stars The Crown's Emma Corrin and Industry's Nabhaan Rizwan talks to us about moving from the Vault Festival to a major West End theatre and putting certain playw…
Review: Outlier, Bristol Old Vic 3.0Overall Score Gigs may currently be off, but this co-production with Old Vic Ferment fuses their kinetic atmosphere and music-informed storytelling into a…
Review: LIT, Nottingham Playhouse3.0Overall ScoreSomehow it's already June. For schoolkids, the summer holiday is near. A time when you might find love, fall out of love, find new friends an…
The temporary transfer of live to online theatre has changed the way many critics, like our own Matt Barton approaches and writes about it. Here, he considers whether we should be more lenie…
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