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SLEEPLESS director and writer Hannah Barker explores the impulse to use theatre to explain the horrifying condition of living with a genetic disease.

Screens director Cressida Brown talks about her work on the production, putting Pokemon Go onstage, and the challenges of having your producer and actor be one and the same.

Pros: A musical of laughs and non-stop entertainment. Cons: Simplified, at times cliched, plot. Made in Dagenham certainly is one heck of a fun ride that will keep your toes tapping from start to finish. The tunes are cheerful and keep the beat flowing, while an on-stage band bring the backing to life. This musical, based on the 2010 film of the same name, tells the story of a group of female factory workers who went on strike in the 1960s ...

Perhaps slightly more old-fashioned than re-fashioned, this is nevertheless a charming and spirited production of an old favourite.

This is your chance to win tickets to see Journey’s End on UK tour. To enter, simply retweet one of our Journey’s End competition tweets by 5pm on 4th September 2016 AND name the town where you’d like to see the show (see venue list, below). Immersion Theatre presents Journey’s End R.C.Sherriff’s multi-award winning First World War masterpiece March 1918. “The war to end all wars”. Anxiety builds in Captain Stanhope’s claustrophobic dugout as the threat of an imminent German ...

A classic play with humour and moral intrigue. Some knock out performances from a talented young cast in a modern and surprising production.

A tough subject, broached with insight, humour and great entertainment value.

This adaptation is a great way to experience Kafka’s famous novel with writer Howard Colyer doing it every bit of justice. The text is simply but brilliantly dramatised and O’Rourke is a must see.

St Petersburg Ballet Theatre present an exceptionally talented cast of dancers but the choreography is lacking drama and oomph.

Pros: Excellent performers, ingenious design and impeccable direction. Cons: The period setting is sometimes confused. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest works and certainly his shortest. Significantly influenced by Plautus’ Latin comedy Menaechmi, it is the story of two pairs of twins who fall victim to a series of mishaps related to their ambiguous identity. Egeon (Paul Croft) is a merchant from Syracuse who heads to Ephesus in search of one of his twin sons, lost twenty-five ...