Shear Madness – The Mill at Sonning ★★★★
Sally Hughes brings Pörtner’s hair-brained criminal sitcom ‘Shear Madness’ to The Mill at Sonning’s dinner theatre this summer.
Theatre
Calendar Girls the Musical – Stephen Joseph Theatre ★★★★★
The true story of a small Yorkshire Women’s Institute became a global sensation and now comes home to Scarborough as an award-winning musical, ‘Calendar Girls The Musical’
Brassed Off – Leeds Playhouse ★★★★★
Featuring live music from local brass bands, Leeds Playhouse revives ‘Brassed Off’ on stage thirty years after the film won people’s hearts
BBC Big Band – Birmingham Rep ★★★★
Anything Goes in the BBC Big Band’s tribute to two pioneers of the Great American Songbook
The Corinthian – A Play, A Pie and A Pint ★★★★
Joe McCann’s ‘The Corinthian’ reveals the story of the world’s first Black international footballer
Dracula (touring) ★★★★
Bram Stoker’s iconic character is transformed into the ballet ‘ Dracula’ to the music of Bach, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy
The Long Drop ★★★
Denise Mina’s The Long Drop explores the crimes of Peter Manuel, the ‘Beast of Birkenshaw’, one of Scotland’s most notorious serial killers
Are You Watching? – Royal Court ★★★
Georgie Dettmer explores the sexual politics of the technological era in her provocative debut play, ‘Are You Watching?’
Atonement – Chichester Festival Theatre ★★★★
Ian McEwan’s classic novel, ‘Atonement’, comes to the stage for the first time in this adept adaptation.
The Marriage of Figaro – Scottish Opera ★★★★
Sir Thomas Allen revives his much-loved production of Mozart’s timeless classic ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ for a Scottish Opera tour