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The History Boys West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Alan Bennett’s home city gets a home grown production of The History Boys, his most popular play, and not before time - it has been anticipated with marked eagerness.
Those Magnificent Men Corn Exchange, Newbury
With so many legendary historical characters hitting the stage and screen, how does the gentle story of the pioneers who made the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 make an impact with audiences hungry for drama, romance and danger?.
Milly and the Minotaur Llanover Hall, Cardiff
Courageous - that is a fitting description of the Philip Michell play commissioned by the ever-enterprising Gwent Theatre for its tour of primary schools.
Wall of Death: A Way of Life SECC, Glasgow
Thrillingly visceral, the wall of death side-show has been brought into the heart of the latest production from the National Theatre of Scotland, as director Vicky Featherstone continues to explore the boundaries of theatrical experience in a collaboration with performance artist Stephen Skrynka and the Ken Fox Troupe.
Funny Money Royal Court, Liverpool
Farce is a complicated beast that to work at its best needs to be slick, fast-paced and delivered with assurance.
Begin/End Half Moon Young People’s, London
Lili (Amy Costello) and Yaz (Rachel McKenzie) are teenagers growing up in the Limehouse area of east London, where Half Moon Theatre is based.
Really Old, Like Forty Five National, Cottesloe
Sometimes news stories just fall into the lap of playwrights.
Knives in Hens Arcola, London
Words matter in the pre-industrial world of David Harrower’s 1995 debut play.
Moon Fool - Ill Met by Moonlight South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
By eliminating outside influences and extracting just the main players from the fairy kingdom, Moon Fool and Trestle Touring have created a considered focus within A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Early Bird Finborough Theatre, London
“Don’t touch the Perspex box or you will break it,” we are sternly warned before the start of Leo Butler’s new play about a couple attempting to deal with the disappearance of their child.
The Furies/Land of the Dead/Helter Skelter Ustinov, Bath
Emotional terrorism can cause as much angst to the New York psyche as physical attacks like 9/11.
Stage Fright Canal Cafe, London
Charles, a lovelorn actor, and Peter, a penniless writer, hatch a plan to solve their respective woes.
My Mother Said I Never Should Dukes, Lancaster
Twenty-five years after Charlotte Keatley found it almost impossible for anyone prepared to stage her all-female drama about the “ordinary” lives of four generations of women, this still stands as one of the most finely crafted works in recent British drama.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bolton Octagon
David Thacker’s award-winning experience as resident director of the RSC proves invaluable in this potentially exhilarating, accessible, although overlong, production of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.
And A Nightingale Sang New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
All too often, family dramas set in wartime Britain overdo the tragedy or the never say die Blitz spirit, or both.
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