HER Productions’ gender-swapped adaptation of King Lear is brilliantly subversive and phenomenally acted – but it could be better structured

Cocktails and Cinquains returned for a second event at Contact, following its debut at Keisha Thompson’s welcome party

Alexia Pieretti reviews We Won’t Fall at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Alexia Pieretti reviews dark comedic social commentary The Shadows, performed at the King’s Arms as part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season

Alexia Pieretti reviews a live-streaming of Monster/Monstrum, which was performed at NIAMOS Art Centre as part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season but live-streamed in the wake of the coronavirus crisis

Alexia Pieretti reviews Indigo at the King’s Arms

Alexia Pieretti reviews The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson at the Lowry

Alexia Pieretti reviews An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the King’s Arms as part of MIFTA

Alexia Pieretti reviews UMDS’ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel

The Mancunion’s Theatre section reveal their favourite shows of the decade

What do the everyday issues of a middle-class family and the not-so-everyday issues of two hired assassins have in common? Find out in this double-feature review

Alexia Pieretti reviews the University of Manchester Drama Society’s production of Rory Mullarkey’s The Wolf from the Door

Alexia Mieretti reviews 24 Hours of Peace, Neil Bartlett’s 24-hour show at the Royal Exchange Theatre

Alexia Pieretti interviews Anthony Missen, the co-artistic director of Company Chameleon

Alexia Pieretti attends the preview event of Avenue Q at Oscars Bar

Alexia Pieretti reviews Hedda Tessman, a modern retelling of Henrik Ibsen’s iconic Hedda Gabler

Alexia Pieretti reviews the first production of Mame in half a century, starring 2 x Olivier winner Tracie Bennett

Alexi Pieretti reviews UMMTS’ last musical of the year, Spring Awakening; a show which brings hope for societal change whilst condemning censorship and adults who stifle the minds of the young, as well as the criminalisation of abortion

Alexia Pieretti reviews The Funeral Director on its visit to HOME

Alexia Pieretti reviews Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the penultimate production in the Drama Society’s MIFTA Season