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'Cold War Choir Practice' Hits All the Right Notes, Absurdly

Blurring the lines between binaries, Company of Wolves adaptation of The Bacchae is touring Scotland

The Greek tragedy 'Medea' reimagined

‘The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits’: Hopes, Humps, and Missed Opportunities

Northern Ballet bring to the stage the extraordinary story of Anne Lister – with the world premiere of 'Gentleman Jack'.

With 'The Last Days of Liz Truss', satire is attempted in this one-woman show. (Or is it?)

Gary Wilmot's debut London play 'While They Were Waiting' is a two-hander play starring Steve Furst and the much-loved entertainer himself.

A dazzling adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's thorniest murder mysteries, 'Death on the Nile', continues its UK tour

Eva Victor depicts the aftermath of sexual assault in their directorial debut, 'Sorry, Baby'.

'One Battle After Another' offers an Oscar-tempting satire of political extremism and generational conflict

Timothée Chalamet serves up an Oscar hot shot with 'Marty Supreme'

Red spells danger...but for whom?

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal mine the deepest emotions of the tragedy that inspired one of the world's greatest plays.

In Steve, Cillian Murphy proves an encapsulation of being a teacher can be riveting.

On Swift Horses gallops into cinemas at a leisurely pace

The Traitors Ireland offers conniving, cunning and a nice cuppa to banish the Autumnal gloom

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Northern Ballet bring to the stage the extraordinary story of Anne Lister – with the world premiere of 'Gentleman Jack'.

By turns light and frothy, then dark and grotesque, 'The Red Shoes' is a visual treat and a thought-provoking tale of love and artistic compulsion.

Scottish Opera's 'The Great Wave' explores artist Katsushika Hokusai and his famous woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – ENO ★★★★

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s rarely performed and disturbingly timely tale, 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' gets an epic ENO reworking.

Derren Brown: Only Human Live (touring) ★★★★

Derren Brown brings his unique brand of mentalism back to the stage in his latest, unflinching production 'Only Human Live'

A whirl of love, folly, and human frailty in Mozart’s timeless comic masterpiece, 'Così Fan Tutte'

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Cold War Choir Practice ★★★★★

Company of Wolves’ The Bacchae ★★★★

Medea ★★

The Amazing Sex Life Of Rabbits ★★

Bigfoot! ★★★

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