Four Play ★★★★★
Four Play, Jake Brunger’s relationship comedy, returns to London ten years after its world premiere at the Old Vic Theatre.
Drama
Pride and Prejudice (touring) ★★★★
Kate Hamill’s affectionate adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, Pride and Prejudice, explores the thrills and absurdities of Regency courtship.
Toxic (touring) ★★
Toxic, Nathaniel J Hall’s new play, aims at exploring the survival and resilience of the queer spirit
Love’s Labour’s Lost (More or Less) ★★
Shakespeare’s early comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost finds itself transported to ’90s Ibiza in this “more or less” caveated adaptation.
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
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.