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Middle Child playwriting festival line-up announced

6 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Hull's Middle Child theatre company has revealed the programme for its Fresh Ink: Hull Playwriting Festival, taking place in the city's Fruit Market 19–20 July 2025.
Hope Mill expands for 10th birthday

6 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | David Chadderton

Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre has announced plans to expand into other parts of the 200-year-old former mill building in Ancoats and restore its community hub, which was forced to close in 2024 due to the cost of keeping it running.
Little Women from Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Belgrade Coventry and Blackpool Grand Theatre at The Lyric, Theatre Royal Plymouth

6 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Karen Bussell

Louisa May Alcott’s iconic coming-of-age story of the March sisters, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, is given a gentle, somewhat pedestrian, treatment in Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation. Based, in part, on Alcott’s own family and upbringing, Casey’s cuts create a Reader’s Digest-esque abridged version with the girls’ journeys unimpeded by any subplot or burdened by anyone unessential to the pared-back story.
Lovestuck: A New Comedy Musical

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

New romcom musical Lovestuck is the theatre equivalent of a joyful summer beach read and could easily become one of this season's best sellers. Based very loosely on the real story of Poo-Girl, this story of finding love by being true to yourself features a happily upbeat score and a '90s film romcom vibe. 30-somethings Peter and Lucy are conventionally attractive and likeable, but, their nerdiness being Lord of the Rings-adjacent, they do not have much success on dating apps.
8th Milton Keynes Festival programme announced

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Vera Liber

The eighth edition of the biennial IF: Milton Keynes International Festival will return in locations across the town 18–27 July with an international programme of large-scale outdoor spectaculars, installations, performance, theatre, poetry, dance, circus, live music, family-friendly shows, comedy and cabaret.
The Girl on the Train

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison

Put on a decent thriller and you will pack them in as surely as commuters pack the 6:15. So a gratifyingly full house was testimony to the pulling power of this old favourite. Rachel Watson, divorced and lonely, envies the life of the seemingly perfect couple she sees from the window of her train every day. So when the wife disappears, she cannot resist involving herself in the mystery, especially as the pair live a few doors away from her ex-husband and his new family.
Zoraida di Granata

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Colin Davison

After the triumphant opening of Zoraida di Granata in Rome, the relatively unknown 24-year-old composer left the theatre in a carriage, accompanied by a military band along a road illuminated by torches in his honour, and Donizetti’s career was effectively launched. Almuzir has seized the throne of Granada and wants to marry Zoraida, but she loves the general Abenamet, so Almuzir has him framed for treason.
Death Pact from Bridge House Theatre at Bridge House Theatre

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

From the threateningly, sombre opening music (composed by CHRON), new drama Death Pact takes the audience to some dark places. I am not talking crepuscular; I am talking shadowless and bleak. It is New Year's Eve, and a slightly drunk Victor Lloyd visits Norman Birch at his flat. Things are not as they seem, there is no welcome or nicety about their greetings and Norman is ill and mourning his just-dead budgie. These are the first clues that the room is filling up with carbon monoxide.
Next Generation Festival: Youth Company of the Finnish National Ballet

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Tamsin Flower

The pursuit of excellence is more often seen in glimpses and flourishes. But if it were to be made obvious anywhere, where better than in the peaking athletic artistry of a world-class youth ballet? It could seem excessive to devote a whole evening’s programme to the youth company of a national outfit, but the Finnish National Ballet's Youth Company offering at The Linbury Theatre (ROH) put any qualms about this to bed.
Fight For America!

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Keith P. McKenna |Keith J. Mckenna

January 6, 2021, was a terrifying day for many people across the world as thousands marched on the Capitol Building in Washington. As elected politicians fled or hid in the building, the FBI estimated that a couple of thousand protesters entered the building. The performance company American Vicarious has created a game show around those events, with participants divided into either the blue police team or the red protester team.