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Sisters from Uncommon Theatre at Jack Studio Theatre

4 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

"Everyone is nice on top and rough underneath," says geography teacher Terry to the recently arrived Adrianne collectively unmasking the people who unconventionally frequent her sister's home. The actual unveiling doesn’t happen quickly in this meandering, seldom seen play set firmly in the late 1970s (when it was written) by award-winning working-class writer David Storey, who has since become dubbed "the Chekhov of the North". But it's not just Chekhovian bells that ring.
The 39 Steps from Octagon Theatre Bolton, Wiltshire Creative and Mercury Theatre Colchester at Octagon Theatre Bolton

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

There has been a proliferation of frantic small-cast comic adaptations of old novels—Octagon audiences have seen quite a lot over the last few years—but this 2006 adaptation of John Buchan's novel by National Theatre of Brent's Patrick Barlow, based on an earlier version by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon, is the granddaddy of them all. It may not have been the first of its ilk, but its success at London's Tricycle Theatre (now the Kiln) and later in the West End and on tour certainly paved the way.
A practical guide on how to save the world when no one f***ing else is

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Keith P. McKenna |Keith J. Mckenna

In March this year, the United Nations released its "State of the Global Climate report." It notes that, “globally, each of the last ten years has been one of the ten hottest years on record.” The consequences of that are terrifying.
Dear Evan Hansen

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Karen Bussell

Hugely complex, beautifully engaging and rather unsatisfactory, the 10-year-old Olivier and Tony Award-winning emotional rollercoaster Dear Evan Hansen continues to provoke difficult conversations. Dealing with the big, dark issues of teenage angst, tenuous friendships, exploitation of tragedy, mental health, the desperation to belong and fractured relationships magnified and skewed by social media, Steven Leverson somehow manages to still make the piece entertaining.
Ghosts from Lyric Hammersmith Theatre at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Keith P. McKenna |Keith J. Mckenna

As women marched the streets demanding the right to vote in 1879, Ibsen outraged society by writing the play A Doll's House in which its central character, Nora, walks out on her husband and doesn't follow the pattern of much nineteenth-century literature of women rebelling and then dying at the end of the story. Some wanted it banned. Others said Ibsen had gone too far and should have a sequel in which Nora returns and looks after her children like a good wife.
Heisenberg from Arcola Theatre at Arcola Theatre (Studio 2)

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Howard Loxton

Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist (he is a major character in Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen), but Simon Stephen’s two-hander isn’t biographical. The title is because it centres on uncertainty following the scientist’s concept of the uncertainty principle, which posits that to accurately measure some pairs of properties at the same time—both speed and location for instance—is impossible.
10th York Shakespeare festival

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

York International Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in April 2025 with a programme that "champions international voices, inclusive storytelling, and the urgent themes of our time." One of the headline events is Codename Othello, a new play inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello by Ukrainian writer and director Olga Annenko, translated into English by Daria Moskvitina, which "explores the psychological aftershocks of war, identity, and trauma." It will be performed at York St...
Young people take part in 30th National's Connections

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Published: 15 April 2025 Reporter: Share: The National Theatre's Connections programme, which commissions new plays every year for young people to perform, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025. This year, more than 5,500 young people from more than 270 companies and schools will perform one of the ten specially commissioned plays in theatres around the UK. Ten groups will be selected to perform at the Dorfman in the National Theatre Connections Festival in London in June.
International theatre in 15th GIFT to the NE

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

The 15th Gateshead International Festival of Theatre will feature creative workshops, exhibitions, immersive installations, new performance and discussions Audiences will be able to "experience new performance works at a very early stage, get involved in the creation of new artworks, take part in critical conversations, and explore multiple venues and locations across Gateshead town centre and beyond." Themes covered by the events in this year's festival include the climate emergency,...
Impro fest LiF returns to Liverpool

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Unity Theatre and Liverpool John Moores University are supporting the Liverpool Improvisation Festival 2025 featuring 18 shows and seven workshops led by improvisers. Shows include comedic murder mystery Crime Scene Improvisation (CSI), spontaneous songs, sketches and scenes from audience suggestions from Box of Frogs, School of Night's literary improvisation, two ensemble featuring 16 improvisers in Taxi Tales and Jungle of Emotions for children and family audiences.