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.
Theatre
Spend Spend Spend – Manchester Royal Exchange ★★★★★
The Manchester Royal Exchange revives the late Steve Brown and Justin Greene’s evocative musical Spend Spend Spend
The Roommate ★★★
Two stage and screen legends power a slight, but ultimately winning, house share dramedy, The Roommate
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
[title of show] – ★★★★★
[title of the show] is a four-person meta musical that follows its own creation
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.
Ginger Johnson Blows Off ★★★★
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner Ginger Johnson swaps her crown for a crash helmet on her UK tour
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
Why Am I So Single? ★★★★★
Can Marlow and Moss beat the curse of that difficult second musical with Why Am I So Single?