Reading Time: 2 minutesTo round off Bury Pride, The Met showcased Hunter King’s debut musical with a fabulous title: A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny. Written, performed and directed by King, we are taken on a rootin’, tootin’, musical journey of transition from Bolton milkmaid to Manchester cowboy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSarah Tresilian’s vision in creating the Shakespeers theatre company and directing this first play was to make Shakespeare accessible to all, pulling it away from elitism and delivering it back to the public.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet in Dublin, the story follows Guy, a disillusioned street musician ready to give up on music, and Girl, a Czech immigrant who coaxes him into believing in his talent.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBlending humour with emotional rawness, it’s clear why James Rushbrook’s script won the 2026 VCA Playwriting Award.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlizzard is a tried and tested work by Qubec-based circus outfit FLIP Fabrique, a well-established performance group known for high octane thrills and all-around entertainment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTrans performance artist Krishna Istha is back with the second instalment of his epic transmasc pregnancy trilogy. And this time, he’s brought his mum.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOccasionally flawed, frequently compelling, most electrifying when it abandons its stated premise for something richer
Reading Time: 2 minutesA biting comedy tackling big questions about artificial intelligence and humanity.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs a first impression, there is something almost disorientating about watching Quartet in Autumn in 2026. Not because the play itself feels outdated, but because almost everything surrounding the characters now belongs to a vanished social landscape.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIT’S MY BIRTHDAY!, choreographed by Julian Nichols and performed by Naomi Chockler, Chieh-Hann Chang, Elisa Chou, Grace Malone, and Paxton Ricketts is a captivating contemporary dance-theatre work exploring isolation, the struggle for visibility in groups and feeling left out while the party’s all for you.