Kristy Stott

Following the success of Romeo and Juliet last year, GirlGang Manchester and Unseemly Women will present another all-female take on Shakespeare.

You’ve got another chance to catch this National Octagon prize-winner. A powerful two-hander inspired by real accounts of queer life 50 years ago.

A daring and innovative creative programme – blurring borders and exploding boundaries – BE Festival features a genre-bending feast of European theatre, live music, performance and visual arts.

Powerful and fast-paced and heart-breaking, following a phenomenal run last year, we’re thrilled that West Side Story returns to the Royal Exchange this April.

Growing up in 1970s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Scottish couple, young Jackie blossomed into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decided to find her birth parents…

What do you get if you add 24 hours to 48 performers and two hundred thousand words? Neil Bartlett’s extraordinary new national public artwork.

In the swipe left and swipe right dating culture, is it time that we experienced the real art of conversation again? Here’s your chance to find out. Across the table, within arm’s reach is another human being. Is this the one? How many questions need to be asked before you feel like you are getting to know each other? With a waiter that waits and a Chef to guide you what’s the worst that could happen?

You’ll be handed a smartphone and a pair of headphones to become a fly on the wall during this innovative performance about our digital lives after we die.

Performance, panic attacks and phone addiction – you’ve got another chance to see this arresting monologue from unique theatre-makers Made in China. An explosion of live film-making, hypnotic movement and looping memoir fiction, it asks: what’s a girl to do?

Katy Dye returns with her Edinburgh Fringe hit success show that explores the infantilisation of women.