The Great British Bake Off Musical ★★★★
The beloved TV baking show arrives in the West End as a musical – but will it rise to the occasion?
Theatre
Oklahoma! ★★★★★
Oklahoma! is given a radical reworking that reveals many untapped dramatic riches in the 80-year-old musical.
Merboy ★★★★
Merboy offers a poetic, queer re-imagining of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale to explore the complexities of the gay scene
The Winter’s Tale ★★★★
The Winter’s Tale gets a unique staging, dividing the performance across two auditoria at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Blood Brothers (Touring) ★★★★★
Willy Russell’s musical theatre classic Blood Brothers is on tour four decades after it first played in London’s West End. The Recs asks if it’s still worth a visit?
VAULT – The Tinker ★★★★
The Tinker, based on a true-crime case from 1912, offers an unsettling tale about a stranger at the door.
No Limits – A Song Cycle ★★★★
No Limits depicts the anxieties, challenges, and love that we all experience – in one apartment, but set across different moments in time!
Live To Tell: (A Proposal For) The Madonna Musical ★★
Live To Tell follows the quest of Brian, a Madonna superfan living with HIV, as he pitches himself to Madonna to create a jukebox musical.
When Darkness Falls ★★★★
When Darkness Falls sees a young paranormal expert joins a sceptical history teacher one stormy night on Guernsey – a night they’ll never forget!
Ill Lit ★★★★
Ill Lit features Kasia Zawadzka returning to the Manipulate Festival with a new self-suspension rope performance exploring mental health.