Stage
Requiem review – Mozart meets stomping South African movement
A double bill from Phoenix Dance Theatre and Opera North contrasts Mozart’s wretched souls with Neo Muyanga’s After Party – two very different ways of dealing with death
Lyndsey Winship
28, May, 2023 @12:15 PM
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations review – Eddie Izzard seduces in charismatic one-woman show
Izzard uses humour instinctively, helped by Dickens’s love of the exaggerated or comic grotesque
Arifa Akbar
28, May, 2023 @11:01 AM
No Pay? No Way! review – a bubblegum drama of despair
Dario Fo and Franca Rama’s bitterly comic 1974 satire is a timely fit for today’s cost of living crisis, here impeded by a cartoonishly bright set
Clare Brennan
28, May, 2023 @10:30 AM
The week in theatre: The Second Woman; Brokeback Mountain; Once on This Island – review
Ruth Wilson mesmerises in a 24-hour breakup with 100 different actors; tender moments illuminate a faithful yet distanced adaptation of Annie Proulx’s cowboy love story; and voodoo comes to Regent’s Park
Susannah Clapp
28, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
Corps extrêmes; Rose Until It Touched the Sky – review
Highliner Nathan Paulin, two extreme climbers and eight acrobats add up to one riveting show, while Three Score Dance throw a new light on ageing
Sarah Crompton
28, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
Do Not Go Gentle review – a profound exploration of ageing and dementia
Patricia Cornelius’s play co-opts Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the south pole to follow a band of adventurers who are actually in an aged care home
Steve Dow
28, May, 2023 @1:30 AM
Aspects of Love review – a preposterous blast from the past
Michael Ball returns to sing Love Changes Everything, this time as the uncle, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of romantic entanglements
Arifa Akbar
26, May, 2023 @12:26 PM
John Kearns review – hilarious oddball marvels at the beautiful banal
The standup delivers the finest set of his career – touching on fatherhood, bin bags and Van Gogh Lego
Brian Logan
26, May, 2023 @10:49 AM
Dougie Squires obituary
Choreographer whose dance troupes were a mainstay of light entertainment TV programmes in the 1960s and 70s
Michael Coveney
25, May, 2023 @5:19 PM
A Passionate Woman review – Kay Mellor’s wry rummage through middle-aged angst
A year after Mellor’s death, Tess Seddon directs her 1993 play marked by dry northern wit, knowing ridiculousness and deep, understated sadness
Arifa Akbar
25, May, 2023 @12:35 PM
The Lies review – from tooth fairy fibs to colonial myths
Degna Stone’s ambitious play moves from the imperial to the domestic in its exploration of the legacy of untruths
Mark Fisher
25, May, 2023 @9:40 AM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – giddy shenanigans with a brilliantly chaotic Puck
This bright, bold show tries to balance humour and darkness but tends to land on the silly side of things
Kate Wyver
23, May, 2023 @10:27 AM
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