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A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish
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theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Man with the Twisted Hip
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theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
Assessment
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Shows on a Shoestring at Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre
Atlantic: America and the Great War
*****
Royal Conservotoire of Scotland and the American Music Theatre Project at Assembly Hall
Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Consciousness
****
Soho Playhouse Inc at Assembly George Square Studios
Beethoven in Stalingrad
****
Arin Production / Teateri at Greenside @ Nicolson Square
Between the Crosses
****
Flying Bridge Theatre Ltd at Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Programme 3
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Bite-Size Plays at Pleasance Dome
Big Bite-Size Lunch-Hour 1
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Bite-Size Plays at Pleasance Dome
Big Bite-Size Lunch-Hour: Izzy's Manifestos
****
Bite-Size Plays at Gilded Balloon Teviot
Bin Laden: The One Man Show
****
Knaïve Theatre at C
Bone Woman
****
Imani G Alexander at Greenside @ Infirmary Steet
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – Choices
****
Traverse Theatre
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – Ouroboros
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Traverse Theatre
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – Q&Q
****
Traverse Theatre
Brutal Cessation
*
Assembly George Square Theatre
Creatives
**
Pleasance Courtyard
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Curse of Cranholme Abbey
*****
Young Pleasance at Pleasance Courtyard
Death on the Nile
****
Livewire Theatre Company at theSpace on the Mile
Gratiano
*****
Grist To The Mill at Assembly Hall
Gutted
***
The Conker Group and Home at Pleasance Dome
Home
****
Raised Voices at theSpace on North Bridge
How to Act
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National Theatre of Scotland at Summerhall
Instructions for Border Crossing
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Annabel Turpin at ARC at Northern Stage at Summerhall
Into the Woods
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at Assembly Hall
Jason and the Argonauts
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Take Thou That Theatre Company at theSpace on Niddry St
Jonny & The Baptists: The Best of 2012-2017
*****
Fourth Wall at Roundabout @ Summerhall
Karoo Moose - No Fathers
*****
The Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town at Assembly George Square Studios
Kin
*****
Barely Methodical Troupe at Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
Lord Dismiss Us
*****
Boys of the Empire at The Space at Surgeons' Hall
Mary Go Nowhere
**
Black Rocking Chair Productions at Assembly George Square Studios
Mavis Sparkle
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M6 Theatre Company at Pleasance Courtyard
Mouthpiece
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Quote Unquote Collective and Why Not Theatre at Canada Hub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
Out of Love
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Paines Plough at Roundabout @ Summerhall
Out of the Bad
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New Town Theatre
Party Game
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bluemouth inc and Necessary Angel Theatre Company at Traverse at the Wee Red Bar
Performers
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Performers Ltd at Assembly Rooms
Pip Utton's Greatest Hits
*****
Pip Utton at Pleasance Courtyard
Quarter Life Crisis
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Underbelly, Cowgate
Replay
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DugOut Theatre at Pleasance Courtyard
Seanmhair
****
The Other Room at Bedlam Theatre
Sex Offence
**
Andy Paterson / Salt 'n' Sauce Promotions at New Town Theatre
Stand By
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Utter, in association with The Byre Theatre, St Andrews at Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
The Divide Parts 1 & 2
**
The Old Vic at King’s Theatre
The Edelweiss Pirates
***
Parker and Snell Youth Company at theSpace on the Mile
The Fall
*****
Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town at Assembly Hall
The Gun Show
*****
CoHo Productions at SpaceTriplex
The Inevitable Quiet of the Crash
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Leoe & Hyde in association with FoxTale Productions at C royale
The Runner
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MCS Drama at Underbelly, Cowgate
There Was A Soldier...
*****
OpenCast at Stockbridge Church
Three Tales of Life and Death by Craig Lucas
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Assembly Rooms
Tshepang
*****
Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town at Assembly Roxy
Two Sides of the Curtain
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SUDS at theSpace on North Bridge
What If I Told You
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The Mayers Ensemble at Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre))
[Search for tickets] - Angels in America: Perestroika (Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre))
[Search for tickets] - Hamlet (Harold Pinter Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - Ink (Almeida Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - The Ferryman (Gielgud (reviewed at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs))
[Search for tickets] - Girl from the North Country (Old Vic Theatre)
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The Alternative Top 5
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (Duke of York's Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - Bodies (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs)
[Search for tickets] - The Tempest (Barbican Centre)
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Latest reviews
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Curve Young Company and Community production at Curve Theatre, Leicester
How to Be a Kid
Paines Plough at Roundabout @ Summerhall
Kiki's Delivery Service
Southwark Playhouse (The Large)
Limits
Cirkus Cirkör at Royal Festival Hall
Twelfth Night
Barbican Theatre at Residence One Garden, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
Dangling
Southwark Playhouse
Remarkable Invisible
Theatre By The Lake, Keswick
Catastrophists
White Bear Theatre
Twelfth Night
Shooting Stars Theatre at Lauderdale House
Robin Hood: The Arrow of Destiny
York Theatre Royal
The Wedding Singer
Dan Looney in association with Paulden Hall Productions, Jason Haigh-Ellery, Tom O'Connor Productions & Tim Lawson at Theatre Royal Plymouth
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Challenging new play from Open Clasp
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2Faced Dance tours Outlands
2Faced Dance Company presents Outlands in autumn 2017, a new triple bill of contemporary dance.
Project Polunin at London Coliseum
Ukrainian ballet star Sergei Polunin’s company Project Polunin will present a mixed programme of new and revived work at the London Coliseum in December 2017.
Mukhamedov joins Putrov’s Men in Motion at Coliseum
Irek Mukhamedov will join the line-up of Men in Motion when Ivan Putrov’s celebration of the male dancer returns to the London Coliseum in November 2017.
Theatre Chipping Norton to tour Sherlock première
The Theatre Chipping Norton is to tour the world première of Toby Hulse’s Sherlock Holmes and The Crimson Cobbles, a “deeply daft theatrical explosion for adults and family audiences”.
Wolverhampton produces first show in 40 years
Gareth Tudor Price will direct Brassed Off, a co-production between Wolverhampton Grand and talking Scarlet—the first in-house production at the Grand for 40 years.
A monster zoo on tour
New Writing North is to tour Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo, a play for the under-7s.
The Hawth auditions for Snow White
The Hawth in Crawley is looking for Juveniles for its pantomime of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Robin Hood cast at Woking
The New Victoria Theatre at Woking has announced that soap star Shane Richie play the title role of this year's pantomime Robin Hood.
Liverpool and Salford Fallen Angels recovery dancers
From addiction to recovery to a first-class honours degree for one Fallen Angels Dance Theatre dancer as company prepares for the UK Recovery Walk show in Blackpool.
What Shadows at Park Theatre
Ian McDiarmid to return to the role of MP Enoch Powell in Chris Hannan's What Shadows.
Zakharova and stars of Bolshoi at London Coliseum
Prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova, Principal of the Bolshoi Theatre and étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet, brings her triple bill Amore to the London Coliseum in November.
Phoenix Dance celebrates female choreographers
Phoenix Dance Theatre celebrates its female talent on its home stage at Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds.
Midlands productions
Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 14 August.
The new season at Wilton’s Music Hall
Zigger Zagger and The Terrible Infants get anniversary productions whilst Manfred Karge’s Man to Man has its London première this autumn at Wilton’s Music Hall.
UK revival of People, Places & Things at HOME
Full casting has been announced on Jeremy Herrin’s UK revival of Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places & Things, coming to HOME in Manchester.
Manchester gets one from Down Under
A Bolton-based theatre company is bringing the English premiere of an Australian play to Greater Manchester.
Charlie Fink in new Salford play
Songwriter and lyricist Charlie Fink, former front man of the band Noah and the Whale, will present Cover My Tracks at The Lowry.
Letters to Morrissey from HOME
Award-winning actor and playwright Gary McNair makes his second appearance at HOME with new show Letters To Morrissey.
Chester venue's autumn plans
Storyhouse in Chester is gearing up for its inaugural touring season.
Catch yourself a shark in Lancaster!
There’s a chance to buy a souvenir to treasure from this summer’s Dukes 30th anniversary outdoor production.
Freak destined for Manchester venue
Freak was written by Bruntwood prize winner Anna Jordan and first performed in 2014. MAP Productions i now bringing it to Manchester venue 53two.
Julie chips in to Port Stories
The history of Lancaster’s maritime past is brought to life in audio dramas, films and artwork.
Bayadere première's bold design in Salford
Shobana Jeyasingh’s latest dance work gets a bold new stage design.
Pop-up theatre returns to Little Hulton
Residents of Little Hulton in Salford are set to welcome a 160-seat pop-up theatre to Peel Park September 7 to 10.
Take That musical The Band opens in Manchester
The Band opens its UK tour at Manchester Opera House next month.
Six of the best from Opera North
Opera North is returning to The Lowry from November 15 to 17 with a festival of short operas.
Pay per view at Lancaster Dukes
Audiences pay what they decide for two forthcoming shows at Lancaster’s Dukes theatre.
NW productions
Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday August 13.
Overdue adds a new date and venue
Overdue by Arabella Arnott has added a new date and a new venue to its run in September.
Panto Auditions & Creative / Technical Positions 2017
Auditions and Creative / Technical Positions for Panto Season 2017. Latest Update: 13/08/2017.
What's on in the North East
Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 14 August 2017.
Even more at Alphabetti
Yet more shows have been added to Alphabetti’s autumn programme.
Audition dates for RoguePlay’s young acting company
West Midlands-based RoguePlay Theatre is to hold auditions for young people aged from 8 to 19 who want to develop their acting skills.
Leicester celebrates with South Asia festival
The city of Leicester is to mark the 70th anniversary of India and Pakistan’s independence with six days of arts and culture in Night of Festivals South Asia.
RSC to dispose of costumes in Stratford jumble sale
More than 10,000 items will be up for grabs at a costume jumble sale at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s former rehearsal rooms on Arden Street, Stratford.
Dirty Flea-Bitten Scrounging Bastard from Cloud Nine
Cloud Nine returns with a comic satire by Peter Mortimer.
More details of the first play in the new Alphabetti
Details of the first play in Alphabetti Theatre’s first season in its new premises and of an associated playwriting course have been announced.
BRB Nutcracker open auditions for young dancers
Birmingham Royal Ballet will hold open auditions for young dancers to appear in The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall.
Comedy revival at the Customs House
A North East comedy from 2016 is to be revived at the Customs House in South Shields.