The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering " but this time she's listening to, not…
Available onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus's interactive horror is scary " but teaming up with strangers is fun We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a "terrifying s…
Available online Staffordshire's Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists his …
Available onlineThe Queen's theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county's much maligned image with four monologues that fizz When Mike Leigh situated his social sati…
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears 'What's your favourite scary movie?" ask…
Mike Bartlett's monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes's over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown, fl…
Available onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
Available onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland's fantasy…
Olivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue " a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams' Death of England " with deftly controlled energy 'There have been other moments in h…
Crucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane's one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair Crave was the one-act…
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe's novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit Jonathan Coe's satirical novel about the venality of the That…
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality 'The oldest and strongest emotion of mankin…
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell's play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever This 40th…
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn't immune to the storms battering theatre Sharon D Clarke was…
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator's adventurous career and her final terrible moments Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epitom…
Nottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham's Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone The playwright James Gra…
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle Last year, in the "before", The Great Gatsby …
This funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves " and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying Heidi Schreck tells us she f…
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads The first monologue in this double-…
Bridge theatre, LondonThere are fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads The latest two live instalments of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, …
Tristan Bates theatre, London, and online In her lockdown romance, playwright Gemma Lawrence explores desire, isolation and homophobia A remote love story seems so fitting for our times. Th…
New general secretary Paul Fleming says that amid this summer's Black Lives Matter protests, the union received spike in reported cases of racist behaviour Equity, the UK trade union for cre…
The explosion of digital productions of all sizes has shown great creativity and made hit shows more accessible " but is it all financially sustainable? In the past six months, theatre has o…
Soho theatre, LondonThis larky Zoom-era adaptation of the director's film about white-collar leadership is full of improv-style gusto In 2006, a year after the US launched a version of Ricky…