Southwark Playhouse, LondonExploring the agent's life after she fell into Nazi hands, this beguilingly played story reflects on bravery and culpability Not enough is known of Noor Inayat Kha…
The Pit, Barbican, London With live music, video and spoken word testimony, a dramatic rap subculture energetically seizes the chance to present its own complicated story on stage Seven bala…
Royal Court theatre, LondonMartin Crimp's show uses AI and deep-fake technology to question the definition of drama " and what it is to be human There are circles within circles of inquiries…
North Wall Arts Centre, OxfordDeborah Pugh delivers a brilliantly intense take on the ancient tales, foregrounding the heroism of women 'This is the story of my severed head." As first lines…
Available onlineEffectively filmed for streaming audiences in a sharply told adaptation, this adventure stars Luke Barton as the bumptious master detective "If this is to be our final advent…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRona Munro's engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots The Mary of the title refers t…
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonSet in the New Mexico desert, David Farr's unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human essence …
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonA distressed woman unravels after her father's suicide in a play that strikes the wrong balance between humour and sorrow Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order: …
They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe's Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever When Farah Karim-…
Almeida, London Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons " so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears…
Park theatre, LondonExcellent performances enhance this story of three young boys hurtling towards gang culture King Hamlin begins with a teenager's funeral. We learn of the boy's stabbing a…
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel about a gay man grieving for his lover lacks the depth of Tom Ford's movie version Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel abo…
Bristol Old VicWith inky backdrops, jagged sound and frenzied violence, John Haidar's production stars Billy Howle as a prince emanating unhinged anger The opening scene suggests that this p…
Barbican, LondonThe Royal Shakespeare Company's production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact How to adapt an iconic film made by the creative giants at Studio…
Minerva theatre, ChichesterIn spite of a nifty set and new songs, this story of an oil-man trying to buy a Highlands village never quite comes alive This adaptation of Bill Forsyth's 1983 fi…
The Hope theatre, LondonThe characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie …
Reading Rep theatrePlaywright Gary McNair turns the gothic novel into a brilliantly bewitching show performed by Audrey Brisson The small square stage looks more fitted up for a standup gig…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRevived with a superb cast, CP Taylor's play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream There is an i…
Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter This virtual conversation between Samuel …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJenna Fincken's one-woman play, inspired by real stories, gets inside the head of a young woman in a toxic relationship Jenna Fincken's one-woman play anatomises a…
Half Moon theatre, LondonElayne Ogbeta's play explores intergenerational love as a man struggles to tell his granddaughter that he is leaving Britain I have not told my nieces what Grandad A…
Duke of York's Theatre, LondonRobert Icke's combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences The return …
Rodreguez King-Dorset takes the stage as three protagonists in a coruscating drama about the Windrush scandal Rodreguez King-Dorset's drama about racism and the Windrush scandal first took l…
Hampstead theatre, LondonGeorgina Burns' debut play about an overburdened counselling unit presents perceptive insights and no easy answers A therapist at an NHS counselling unit jokes darkl…
Available onlineWriter Jessica Walker sings strongly but this tale of family dysfunction and abuse doesn't hang together It is reassuring to see online shows being made beyond pandemic neces…