Available onlineAhamefule J Oluo's 2014 show about having an autoimmune disease is a moving hybrid of comedy, theatre and jazz Since venues closed their doors because of the coronavirus, a w…
Available onlineBunker theatre's six short films should inspire some fruitful reflection by the theatre industry during coronavirus lockdown The six short films comprising Where Do We Go Nex…
Available onlineMoving between three timelines of women who go against the grain, Philip Franks's haunted-house production cranks up the tension The Croft is a haunted house story that has a…
Watermill, NewburyThis folk musical about a lonely fisherwoman looking for love boldly puts a puppet in the role of the leading man Just after many UK theatres announced indefinite closures …
National Theatre, LondonRobert Lepage's dazzling epic explores human resilience in the face of global trauma with elegance and imagination An arresting image in the opening of The Seven Stre…
Coronet theatre, London Friel's mashup of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters is an exciting prospect, but this production lacks chemistry Afterplay initially sounds like drama of the mo…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMike Bartlett's brilliant play follows a couple trying, and failing, to keep family together 'The personal is political" started out as a feminist rallying call in t…
Crucible, SheffieldAn arrogant elite, populist fury … Robert Hastie charts the rise and fall of Tom Bateman's hero with a modern-day edge For all of its ruthless violence and ferocious mil…
Royal Court, LondonVicky Featherstone directs EV Crowe's play about a working mother who loses a shoe and her grip on reality 'I'm often frustrated by the rhythms of naturalism," EV Crowe ha…
Park theatre, LondonSome nifty staging and a strong performance from Tom York as two warring brothers cannot enliven this outdated caper Gerald Moon's 1983 comic crime caper is set in the ye…
Crucible Studio theatre, SheffieldTwo sisters travel back across four decades in Chloë Morris's gritty and unsentimental story of a pained relationship Difficult sisterhood appears to be …
Orange Tree theatre, LondonJosh Azouz's play explores the passion between two men who go to the same synagogue but it lacks tension and tenderness 'This is a mikvah," states a character at t…
From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight Bodies hacked to pieces, brains dribbling out…
Piccadilly theatre, London Danny Mac and Aimie Atkinson star in the schmaltzy and shallow Hollywood tale, told with a few winning songs A businessman picks up a sex worker to turn her into h…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThomas Middleton's play seems perfect for the #MeToo era, but this over-stylised production misses the mark Thomas Middleton's revenge drama about patriarchy, …
Tales by Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter and Emily Brontë are all being brought to theatres this year. Their creative teams reflect on what they cut and what they added How does a well-love…
Coronet theatre, LondonNico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm 'How shall I begin?" asks Nico Holonics …
Dominion, LondonIt's got pageantry, pyramids and dazzling dance moves, but this lavish stage adaptation drowns out the emotional drama DreamWorks' musical animation The Prince of Egypt was …
Kiln, LondonAntoinette Nwandu's powerful absurdist urban tragedy sees two black homeless men " cowed by the ever-present threat of police brutality " pursue their own American dream Antoinet…
Bridge theatre, London Roger Allam plays a father with multiple versions of the same son in a drama that feels like an early noughties Black Mirror Caryl Churchill wrote A Number in 2002, wh…
The Other Palace, LondonThe soaring joys and plunging agonies of adolescence are treated with humour and heart in this refreshing arrival from Broadway 'There's never been a better time in h…
Bush theatre, LondonInspired by Master of None, Temi Wilkey delivers a heartfelt and funny tale of love and ancestral ties in a Nigerian family 'Being gay isn't something black people love t…
Olivier theatre, London Lesley Manville excels as the billionaire returning to her small town but even she can't save this bloated adaptation The Visit (or The Old Lady Comes to Call) is a 1…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonPatrick Marber directs Tom Stoppard's sweeping story of a Jewish family in Vienna across six decades In 2003, Tom Stoppard was asked if he would ever write a "Jewis…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJuliet Gilkes Romero's play about the battle to end slave-owning in the British empire grows in intrigue and tension The Whip takes a moment in British histo…