Ben Kulvichit

Sensitive production of Matthew López’s chamber play about urban gay life and loneliness

Nathaniel Parker and Siân Phillips star in James Dacre’s deft stagings of a pair of well-made Terence Rattigan one-acts

Music and circus drive a fairytale given an ecological update by Sonali Bhattacharyya and Miranda Cromwell, starring Liana Cottrill as the mermaid

Read our review of The Beautiful Future Is Coming at the Bristol Old Vic: hope and despair tussle for control in this time-hopping climate-crisis play

Read our review of How to Win Against History review at the Bristol Old Vic: extravagant remount of Seiriol Davies’ cult hit musical about the life of a queer Edwardian aristocrat

Read our review of A Child’s Christmas in Wales at the Lucky Chance: Emma Rice’s adaptation of Dylan Thomas is a sweet, sometimes cloying nostalgia trip

Read our review of Treasure Island at Bristol Old Vic. New take on the classic emphasises its Bristol roots, but lacks peril

Read our review of Aladdin at Hall for Cornwall, Truro. A polished and high-powered take on Aladdin with lots of local colour

Read our review of Macbeth at the Tabacco Factory Theatre, Bristol: Restrained, polite and somewhat miscast production of Shakespeare’s tragedy

Read our review of All the Happy Things at Bristol Old Vic: warmly sincere, simply wrought story of grief