★★★★☆ Mary Whitehouse spent her life battling what she saw as filth on stage and screen, so what happens when she becomes the star of a play herself? The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse asks whether this self-styled crusader is remembered as a beacon for decency or as a meddling censor whose grip on the arts destroyed creativity.

★★★★★ What if Hamlet swapped Denmark’s cold castles for a North Carolina backyard barbecue, complete with paper plates, smoky ribs, and a family reunion laced with secrets? Well that's Fat Ham

★★★☆☆ Closing out the 2025 season is Richard Harris’s psychological puzzle The Business of Murder. But the real question is: did the season go out with a bang… or a whimper?

★★★★☆ The Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season is back at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, serving up a summer of suspense, intrigue and edge-of-your-seat drama. After opening with Death By Fatal Murder in week one, the company returned just days later with their second production, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap.

how has Giant achieved the status of being the best observational drama I’ve ever seen? What is it that keeps the audience eavesdropping on this private showdown?

★★★★☆ A Thousand Splendid Suns delivers a powerful and emotionally charged performance. Set over three decades of political turmoil in Kabul, the play explores the intertwined lives of Mariam and Laila, two women brought together by circumstance and bound by an unbreakable bond.

★★★★☆ Alan Ayckbourn’s Just Between Ourselves is a darkly comic exploration of domestic dysfunction and emotional manipulation, set in the seemingly mundane world of suburban life. London Classic Theatre’s 25th-anniversary production, directed by Michael Cabot, brings the classic to life at Derby Theatre with a performance that is both hilariously entertaining and deeply unsettling.

★★★★★ Mischief Theatre has delivered another theatrical gem with The Comedy About Spies, delighting audiences at London's Noël Coward Theatre. This uproarious production masterfully blends rapid-fire wit, physical comedy, and a cleverly woven plot, ensuring that from curtain up to final bow, the audience is thoroughly entertained. 

★★★★☆ Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men cleverly explores how seemingly simple sexual encounters can ripple out to change lives in unexpected ways.

★★★★☆ You think you know The Importance of Being Earnest? Think again. Say It Again, Sorry?'s riotous meta-theatrical explosion, …Earnest?, is an uproarious and joyously unpredictable celebration of all things theatrical, silly, and gloriously human.

★★★★☆ "Four legs good, two legs bad." This is the iconic chant from George Orwell's 1945 classic Animal Farm. The animals rebel against...

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