Skip to content

The Arts Dispatch

The home of theatre and stage reviews and interviews across the UK & Ireland

Newsletter sign-up
  • Home
  • Theatre
    • Reviews
    • Interviews
  • Stage
  • Festivals
    • MimeLondon 2025
    • Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Full Coverage
    • ALSO Festival 2024
    • Glastonbury Festival 2024
    • A Pinch of Vault Festival 2024
    • Manipulate Festival 2024
    • MimeLondon 2024
    • Footprints Festival 2024
    • Glastonbury Festival 2023
  • London Theatre Show Guides
    • Back to the Future: The Musical
    • Cabaret
    • Guys & Dolls
    • Hamilton
    • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
    • Les Misérables
    • Moulin Rouge! The Musical
    • The Book of Mormon
    • The Lion King
    • The Mousetrap
  • Newsletter
  • Contact us
    • Write for us
    • Edinburgh Fringe Advertisement Packages for The Arts Dispatch
Headlines
  • One night in Mavericks – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago4 months ago
  • Lucie Jones review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago4 months ago
  • Primary School Bangers review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago5 months ago
  • Charlotte May review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago5 months ago
  • Seanchoíche review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago5 months ago
  • Dom Joly review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago5 months ago
  • Steffan Harri on Girl From the North Country

    5 months ago5 months ago
  • The Lifesaver! review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago5 months ago
  • John Berkavitch review – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago4 months ago
  • Glastonbury debuts at the Poetry&Words Open Mic – Glastonbury Festival 2025

    5 months ago4 months ago
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Theatre
  • Page 3

Theatre

  • Review
  • Theatre

Manhunt review – Royal Court Theatre, London ★★☆☆☆

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

Until now Robert Icke’s output has largely been focused on updating classics for modern times — with great success, it…

Read More
  • Review
  • Theatre

Our New Girl review – Lyric Theatre, Belfast ★★★★☆

Mark Quinn8 months ago8 months ago

Review by Mark Quinn Our New Girl begins with a truly shocking image in the dark (that, of course, I won’t…

Read More
  • Interview
  • Theatre

Katharine Farmer on Heisenberg

Admin8 months ago8 months ago

Directed by Arcola Theatre Artistic Associate Katharine Farmer, a new female-led production of Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg is offering fresh insights…

Read More
  • Review
  • Theatre

Descension review – FableMosh (Digital Release) ★★☆☆☆

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

Lora Krasteva’s Descension kicks off a series of works on the new interactive digital theatre platform FableMosh, developed by Nottingham-based…

Read More
  • Interview
  • Theatre

Naomi Denny on All The Happy Things

Admin8 months ago8 months ago

All The Happy Things is the debut full-length play by playwright and actor Naomi Denny. A dark comedy about the…

Read More
  • Review
  • Theatre

Rhinoceros – Almeida Theatre, London ★★★★☆

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

Omar Elerian returns to the Almeida and to Eugène Ionesco, translating and directing Rhinocerous following his success with The Chairs…

Read More
  • Interview
  • Theatre

Lizzy Skrzypiec on Murder, She Didn’t Write

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

The improvised whodunit and Edinburgh Festival Fringe regular, Murder, She Didn’t Write, is currently making its way around the country…

Read More
  • Interview
  • Theatre

Peta Maurice on The Detective Dog

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

A stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie’s best-selling children’s book The Detective Dog has set off on tour…

Read More
  • Interview
  • Theatre

Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty on The Brightening Air

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty has quickly made an impression in the theatre world making his professional stage debut playing the role…

Read More
  • Review
  • Theatre

Animal Farm review – Leeds Playhouse ★★★★☆

Jim Keaveney8 months ago8 months ago

How many adaptations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm do you need? Last year saw Ian Wooldridge’s version tour Bolton, Hull…

Read More

Go to:

Copyright The Arts Dispatch 2025. Some of our independent and unbiased review coverage includes affiliate links which earn The Arts Dispatch a small commission at no extra cost to buyers.