What does Mamet's 1992 play about a college professor accused of sexual harassment say in the wake of #MeToo? Lucy Bailey, director of its West End revival, discusses its power Director Lucy…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonEmma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton's two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design Damien Hirst's conceptual art i…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonBryony Lavery's play, revived by director Tinuke Craig, celebrates friendship with truths, humour and good punchlines A play about serious illness and the search f…
Toynbee Studios, LondonWritten in response to sexual violence in Tahrir Square, this mobile adaptation of Sara Shaarawi's polemic becomes confusing Niqabi Ninja is a revenge fantasy original…
Old Vic: In CameraDavid Thewlis and Daniel Mays add rich new shades to the over-familiar 1957 two-hander in this filmed adaptation It takes theatrical alchemy " and talent " to turn a play a…
Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor had no access to elite ballet schools growing up. But he did have John Travolta and disco to spark a lifelong obsession. Now he wants to make dancer…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince's take on Shakespeare's tragedy is clever, energetic and doesn't have a single smooch This is not the first major production of Romeo and Juliet …
Exchange Auditorium, Manchester CentralThe novelist's article about her father's death was expanded into a book and has now become a play but it feels limited Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fath…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonFeaturing plague and shootouts in M&S, XR supporter April De Angelis's dystopic climate drama is a powerful, urgent polemic During Extinction Rebellio…
Vaudeville theatreThe stories of string theorist Marianne and beekeeper Roland are told forwards, backwards and sideways as we explore their theatrical multiverse How many ways can the same …
Watermill theatre, NewburyWith Paul Hart's production blending into the theatre grounds, the pastoral comedy here becomes an effective vehicle to reflect on our relationship with nature It …
Coliseum, LondonThis maelstrom of a show based on the 1988 John Waters film has a dizzy energy and a stunning turn from Marisha Wallace "You have to think big to be big," declares Tracy Turn…
Bridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in a visually impressive production of Nina Raine's play that never quite gets off the ground It is tempting to compare Bach & Sons with P…
Soho theatre, LondonThe platonic love between thirtysomething Myah and her elderly landlady moves and empowers in Amanda Wilkin's one-woman show "I would rather be anywhere. Anywhere else in…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonTanika Gupta sends Gandhi overseas, Simon Stephens sees devastation in locked-down London and Roy Williams lightens the mood with a local hero story The monologue be…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIn Yasmin Joseph's play, three girls wind their way through the streets, guided by the spirit of the activist who founded the carnival J'Ouvert evokes the spirit…
National Theatre, LondonLyndsey Turner's production is a charming albeit emotionally distanced retreat into nostalgia Dylan Thomas's drama, broadcast on radio in 1954 , has been recited by p…
Almeida, LondonYomi á¹¢ode's startling play about death, mourning and young masculinity is intensified by its weight of emotion and sensational stagecraft This is a strange and startling…
The creator of the hit play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner on the power of comedy and why Instagram is almost like cosplay Jasmine Lee-Jones, 22, is a writer and actor from London. In…
Riverside Studios, LondonTrevor Nunn's production of Samuel Beckett's classic play is stronger on music-hall comedy than bleakness When Peggy Ashcroft played Winnie at the National Theatre, …
Theatre Royal BathUncertainty reigns supreme in a fast and fluid revival of Michael Frayn's resonant, if sometimes impenetrable, play Rehearsals for this revival of Michael Frayn's award-win…
Theatre Peckham, LondonIn Shaan Sahota's audio play, which is touring theatres, a junior doctor tries to navigate the early days of the pandemic A junior doctor's first nervous day at work i…
The actor had a great lockdown: she learned to cook, took up cello " and fell in love. Now six months pregnant, Dwan's about to be buried up to her neck in Happy Days. Is she worried? Lisa D…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Kibong Tanji is outstanding as the sister of the victim in Dipo Baruwa-Etti's play which is dynamic and gripping but lacks tonal variety The Sun, the Moo…
Hampstead theatre, LondonDepravity takes hold of a pair of young black entrepreneurs in 1970s London in this revival of Alfred Fagon's idea-filled play It has taken almost half a century for…