Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (touring) ★★★★★
Murder on the Orient Express, one of Christie’s boldest murder-mysteries, is brought to the stage under the watchful eye of director Lucy Bailey
Drama
Bull (Touring) ★★★★
Bull, Mike Bartlett’s brutal 2013 play about office politics, gets a timely revival as a regional tour
Firebird – King’s Head Theatre
The award-winning 2021 film, Firebird, which features a forbidden love affair on an Air Force Base in Soviet-occupied Estonia at the height of 1970s Communist rule, comes to the stage for the first time.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (touring) ★★★★★
The revival of the 2017 production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in its original home at Leeds Playhouse, couldn’t be more welcome or more timely
A Streetcar Named Desire – Royal Lyceum ★★★★
A year on from its first outing, at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Elizabeth Newman’s vision of A Streetcar Named Desire has arrived in style at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum.
Birdsong – Leeds and touring ★★★★★
Sebastian Faulks’ magnum opus, Birdsong, is rendered beautifully in Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation for stage.
A Raisin in the Sun – Leeds and touring ★★★★
Headlong’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun begins a limited tour in England
A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First ★★★★★
‘A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads this First’ is the latest offering from award-winning New York duo Xhloe Rice & Natasha Roland
Rebels and Patriots ★★★★
Rebels and Patriots is based on true stories and is presented by Floating Shed, an Israeli/Palestinian theatre company.
Shotgunned ★★★★★
Shotgunned is a piece of new writing which tells the story of a relationship from its end to its beginning.