Ben Kulvichit

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

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

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

Exuberant staging by Sally Cookson of Ross Willis’ feel-good drama about 12-year-old Sonny, who struggles to overcome his stammer

Underpowered musical play about failed ambitions by Alana Ramsey, Lizzie Stables and Jenny Rainsford

Underpowered musical play about failed ambitions by Alana Ramsey, Lizzie Stables and Jenny Rainsford

Comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete – Matt Freeman, Al Dunn and Nick Bunt – bring to this exemplary pantomime both their disciplined slapstick comedy and natural chemistry

Comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete – Matt Freeman, Al Dunn and Nick Bunt – bring to this exemplary pantomime both their disciplined slapstick comedy and natural chemistry

Cruel, comical game of repetition and reversal from Forced Entertainment

Nancy Medina opens her tenure at Bristol Old Vic with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play set in an American all-Black, all-boys’ private school

Moving examination of the emotional and systemic complexities of end-of-life care

Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 winner Ahlam debuts a play exploring love during a time of oppression in Cairo

Theatre Ad Infinitum’s retelling of the Trojan War tells the classic myths from a female perspective

John Haidar directs a shadowy, impressionistic Hamlet starring a forthright Billy Howle

Barney Norris adapts Lorca’s play into an elegiac tribute to unseen lives in rural Wiltshire

Now on a UK tour, Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 2010 Belgian film for her company Wise Children, is a whimsical, sugar-sweet treat

Lucy Hughes’ revival of Laura Wade’s riotous comedy has an uncomfortable edge in today’s climate

Eclipse Theatre present Chinonyerem Odimba's heartfelt tribute to the Windrush generation, set during the Bristol Bus Boycott

Princess and the Hustler review, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol, 2019

Stan’s Cafe pulls off an ambitious and cinematic show staged on two travelators