Gate theatre, LondonSanaz Toossi's intimate play follows a group of friends during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and beyond as they get married, have children and experience loss Two dramas…
Noël Coward theatre, London Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers' three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation Stanley Kubrick's 1964 satire, a…
Hampstead theatre, LondonTwo sides of the same event are explored in Richard Bean's drama " one haunting, one comedic " but they don't really fit together There is a tension from the off bet…
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London A 15-year-old's bereavement is tackled with 'can-do' American energy, a tremendous score and wickedly barbed lyrics that keep the schmaltz in check This …
The Belgrade theatre, CoventrySet in a family-run Jamaican eaterie, Daniel J Carver's potent drama explores across three generations what it is to be a Black British man Outside, race riots …
Trafalgar theatre, London Zinnie Harris's version of the Jacobean play makes potent points about power but is hamstrung by an overbearing production John Webster's revenge tragedy contains a…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonOpening in a campaign room on election night, Robert Icke's modern retelling is riveting from beginning to end, the formidable leads supported by a stellar ensemble …
Birmingham RepA boy is bullied when he's cast as Nancy in the school play " but bland songs and generic characters keep the story stuck in single gear This musical, about a boy's coming out,…
Donmar Warehouse Oscar winner makes London debut in Lindsey Ferrentino's busy play that sometimes lacks intensity As true crime stories go, Nick Yarris's tale is stranger than fiction and a …
Royal Court, LondonOli Forsyth's play about a honeymooning couple caught up in a disaster is let down by unconvincing dilemmas and characterisations In its setup, this is an edge-of-the-seat…
Lyttelton theatre, LondonEvery performance is compelling in this rivetingly naturalistic modern-day reworking of Antigone, written by Alexander Zeldin This modern family psychodrama bills it…
Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O'Casey's 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession's J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the long…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonMixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising 'anti-biography', Khalid Abdalla's solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British identit…
Almeida theatre, LondonWatching John Osborne's fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker's classic The "angry young man" has not ag…
Chichester Festival theatreThis drama about Mick Jagger and Keith Jones's 1967 drugs bust curiously foregrounds their lawyer's family issues The public outcry that followed the prison senten…
Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta'…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis frothy farce about an 1890 cabinet minister 'accepting favours' never stoops to nudge-winking to make its point " and is all the better for it If the ide…
Royal Court Theatre, LondonSophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the life of the author As debut plays go, Giant has some very old and exp…
Theatre Royal BathAllen gives a capable performance in an arresting production that gives a chilling sense of state control " but the central romance fails to fizz Seventy-five years after G…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDavid Edgar's play on the anti-communist Hollywood blacklists of the 1950s is clunky in its set-up, but offers a lively take on the personal politics of art and id…
Olivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner's production lacks in feeling it makes up in style Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage wit…
He has triumphed over controversies, the 'devastation' of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season " and his plans to take u…
Young Vic, LondonThis musical has the seeds of a brilliant show for our times with Ramin Karimloo on fine form, but its complex themes are sucked away by sledge-hammer messaging Elia Kazan's…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Macdonald's production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos Samuel Beckett's 1953 tragicomedy about two woe-begotten men waiti…
Leeds Playhouse Revival of Lorraine Hansberry's play follows a family struggling against the odds and delivers a message of hope When Lorraine Hansberry's debut play premiered in 1959, it ma…