Riverside Studios, LondonThe compelling life of the world-changing mathematician and logician is somehow rendered unremarkable in a drab musical Alan Turing's life was without doubt dramatic…
King's Head theatre, LondonSet in San Francisco's art world, Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle's frothy farce brings a contemporary gay twist to an old-school comic formula This frothy gay…
Hampstead theatre, LondonStalin's daughter and a white supremacist's son navigate their psychological inheritances as scenarios and characters change quickly in a blizzard of ideas This Rubi…
Arcola theatre, LondonThis timely revival of Tim Price's monologue about a rough sleeper drawn into activism leaves little space for vulnerability 'Got any change?" asks a man with a woolly …
The staging is imaginative and expressive, and the audience is immersed in the action by hearing everything through headphones This is the second starry adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish …
Phoenix theatre, LondonThis origin story has all the dark mystery of the Duffer Brothers' Netflix series and delivers one coup de theatre after another It starts with those floating red lett…
Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Ireland's explosive satire turns into farce as two buffoons parading as progressives team up with a dramatist played by Louisa Harland Two white men in show bu…
Hampstead theatre, LondonStoppard's 2006 play asks important ideological questions with typically fizzing wordplay but its growling, feral energy comes too late Tom Stoppard has spoken of th…
The NT's newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability " and the magnificently unexpected " to her new post Finally…
Royal Court theatre, LondonChris Thorpe's one-man show is more of a scrappy routine than a meaningful call for disarmament There are nine nations in the world that possess nuclear weapons, w…
Young Vic, LondonPlaying a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter's snapshot of misogyny Harold Pinter's two-act family drama h…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonCo-production with Osaka company brings 1976 study of American imperialism arriving in Japan to subtle, funny life When Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical premie…
Theatre503, LondonRoxy Cook's award-winning debut is a whimsical, layered meta-tale about the clash of old Soviet ways and modern, capitalist culture This play opens just as the title promis…
Bristol Old VicPart panto, part Arabian version of EastEnders, writer Sonali Bhattacharyya, and a winning cast have cobbled together a fizzing modern-day fable about the power of storytellin…
The Depot, LiverpoolStaged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin's intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore At first, it looks like …
Lyttelton theatre, LondonAdapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience 'To be born a woman is the worst punishment…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize If the title of Ibsen's 1881 tragedy about…
Olivier theatre, LondonRoald Dahl's villains are given a makeover with a gag-filled script by Lucy Kirkwood and a couple of storming numbers In Roald Dahl's universe, witches are the most da…
Coliseum, LondonA colossal cast of singers, dancers, acrobats and contortionists take your breath away in this epic and moving story of betrayal and parental sacrifice This show, about the g…
Stanley Arts, LondonCombining spoken dialogue with BSL this innovative production shines a light on the unsung heroes who keep the economy running while the world sleeps The drama opens as t…
Performing naked except for a well-positioned accordion, sprig of parsley or mirror, Eliona Haines tackles labia-shaming by chopping up slices of beef and grilling them. She explains all to …
Hampstead theatre, LondonSocial disparities are highlighted in Magdalena Miecznicka's satirical study of the power play between two former lovers We enter this drama in the middle of a conve…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonUnsettling ideas about sinister political forces are debated in a haunted house. It's timely subject matter, but fails to create any sense of tension Holed up in a…
Duke of York's theatre, LondonPenelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth She was the Queen Mother, he was the p…
Finborough Theatre, LondonThe third play in this programme of work by Scotland's first major modern female playwright redeems an otherwise underpowered evening The first two plays in Ena Lam…