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FEATURE: Collective Fringe Scratch Night 

Reading Time: 2 minutesCollective Fringe returns with its opening Scratch Night: an evening of six new short plays presented as 20-minute excerpts. Just as countless early-career writers and performers have cut their teeth on London’s scratch-night scene — Michaela Coel, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Richard Gadd among them

REVIEW: Murder at Midnight

Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by acclaimed playwright Torben Betts and produced by the award-winning Original Theatre, Murder at Midnight is a gripping murder mystery filled with twists, chilling suspense and wickedly dark humour – guaranteed to keep you guessing until the final stroke of midnight. Playing at The Lowry.

IN CONVERSATION WITH:Maia Kirkman

Reading Time: 4 minutesPresented by esk and Roast Productions. Quentin Blake’s Mrs Armitage on Wheels has been developed in association with Eagle Eye and Little Angel Theatre and based on the BBC animated series Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures, available on BBC iPlayer.…

IN CONVERSATION WITH:  Aaron Gelkoff

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis month, the students of University of Oxford return to Oxford Playhouse with Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s kaleidoscopic comedy musical, Company. Themselves on the brink of change, Fennec Fox Productions give this Tony Award-winning musical a playful…

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Julia Taudevin

C: Lovett Logan

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Julia to talk about her latest play Auntie Empire premiering at Manipulate Festival. 1. You’ve described this work as absurd and rambunctious. At what point did you know this story needed to be…

REVIEW: To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee, , Writer - Harper Lee, Adapter/Playwright – Aaron Sorkin, Director – Bartlett Sher, Associate Director – Louisa Muller, Set Designer – Miriam Buether, Design Supervisor – Ed Pierce, Costume Designer – Ann Roth, Lighting Designer – Jennifer Tipton, Sound Designer – Scott Lehrer, Composer (Original Score) – Adam Guettel, Musical Supervisor – Kimberley Grigsby, Casting Director – Serena Hill CDG, Hair and Wigs Designer – Campbell Young Associates, Resident Director – Laurence Belcher, Cultural Coordinator – Tavia Jefferson, (UK & Ireland tour, opening at Leeds Playhouse, 2025) Atticus Finch – Richard Coyle, Scout Finch – Anna Munden, Jem Finch – Gabriel Scott, Dill Harris – Dylan Malyn, Calpurnia – Andrea Davy, Judge Taylor – Stephen Boxer, Tom Robinson – Aaron Shosanya, Bob Ewell – Oscar Pearce, Mayella Ewell – Evie Hargreaves, Horace Gilmer – Richard Dempsey, Mrs Dubose – Sarah Finigan, Miss Stephanie / Dill’s Mother – Phillipa Flynn, Mr Cunningham / Boo Radley – Harry Attwell, Sheriff Heck Tate – Colin R Campbell, Link Deas – Simon Hepworth, Ensemble – Paul Albertson, Ensemble – James Mitchell, Ensemble – Jonathan Rubin, Ensemble – Cheryl Burniston, Ensemble – Charlotte Luxford, Ensemble – Oyin Orija, Ensemble – Tiwai Muza, Ensemble – Tom Brace-Jenkins, Ensemble – John J. O’Hagan

Reading Time: 2 minutesAaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation has arrived at The Lowry, Manchester.