★★★★★ Frankie Vah is an honest longform poem, of love and youth and faith and loss, all woven up in the politics of 1980s Britain. The poem strides out of a staid country vicarage, sprawls across the beds of council houses, and spews onstage in grubby clubs and pubs . . . this is more of the same brilliant, bloody and biting political satire that we all need.
Read More
★★★★★ Once again The Tobacco Factory Theatres are out of the seasonal traps with a huge dollop of comfort and joy for all the family, proving, as if we needed reminding, that it’s not what you show but the way that you show it.
Read More
★★★★★ This Christmas season Birmingham Rep presents a heart-warming story about a family that wants nothing more than to be reunited for the holidays. An evil Cruella De Vil steals the loveable puppies of Pongo and Missis to make herself a Dalmatian puppy coat,
Read More
★★★★★ Originally shot as a television film, the stage version of The Wipers Times recounts the story of Captain F J Roberts and the men under his command who, happening upon a printing press in a bombed out building in Ypres, decided to produce a satirical trench magazine.
Read More
★★★★★ Written and directed by Brendan Murray, Up Down Man is funny, informative, quirky and, at times, very moving. It has the power to make you re-examine your own ideas about a whole range of issues around inclusivity and the rights of those who are seen as different from ourselves.
Read More
Had enough of Twitter / X?
Now follow StageTalkMag on Bluesky Social and Threads too