Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall's monologue " performed by a mesmerising Kate O'Flynn " channels female experience with warmth and humour Alistair McDowall joined forces with the direct…
She loved her nude scenes in the Netflix hit but the West End's Uncle Vanya gave her stage fright. The Stockport star remembers being the class clown and tracking down her tormentor Aimee L…
National Theatre, LondonSpall is like a man possessed in Roy Williams' and Clint Dyer's hair-raising dramatic monologue about the grief and grievances of a working-class white male In the se…
Almeida, LondonRevived by Rupert Goold just over two years after its premiere, this subtle drama has grown with new meaning In 2017, Rupert Goold directed a state-of-the-nation play by Mike …
Pound Arts Centre, Corsham Luke Wright's eloquent verse monologue pairs Brexit with the breakdown of a marriage Luke Wright is a poet for our day and today in particular. This dramatic monol…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonChris Bush's female Faustus is original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist " but this bare-boned production fails to save its soul Doctor Faustus, as we know h…
Orange Tree, LondonOscar Toeman directs a striking revival of the 2003 play about the relationship between a teenage girl and a paedophile Since Lucy Prebble's award-winning first play prem…
KVS, BrusselsThe complicated legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is fearlessly transformed into a radical and rousing musical When Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died in 2018, she was seen both a…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIan Rickson's exquisite production is enlivened with expertly weighted humour and a modern beat Last year, David Hare teamed up with Rupert Everett to stage an U…
Lyttelton, LondonTwelve bickering, bantering women must determine an accused murderer's pregnancy claim in this admirable drama The Welkin is a courtroom drama that sets itself up as a wink…
Boulevard theatre, LondonGary Beadle and Jasper Britton are excellent in this static and plotless existential treatise, but still can't transcend its dramatic limitations There is a flagrant…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThe story of Sarah Bonetta Davies, given to Queen Victoria, is contrasted with a modern black British woman in Janice Okoh's play The historian David Olusoga has sp…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonDavid Threlfall, James Hayes, Niall Buggy and Lisa Dwan star in Trevor Nunn's atmospheric productions of Krapp's Last Tape, Eh Joe and The Old Tune Harold Pinter…
Pleasance theatre, London Julie Tsang's modern gothic fairytale is full of ideas and has some creepy moments but it never quite delivers Fix opens with all the thrilling promise of a modern …
He gave up football after being racially abused on the terraces. Now the barrier-breaking writer, actor and director has turned his scars into a play about a bigoted white family As a child,…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterCharlene James's 2016 play about female genital mutilation combines a powerful social message with bursts of humour It's a "messed-up tradition" says one of the ch…
New Diorama, LondonSuperb performances by Annabel Baldwin and Rachel Hosker capture the intimacy and grief of this fearlessly revisionist retelling of Sophocles' drama This startling retelli…
Finborough theatre, LondonAthena Stevens creates comedy and occasional danger from a real-life incident in this tricksy drama 'Part of being a creative person who happens to have a disabilit…
Hampstead theatre, LondonAlexandra Wood's spirited story of modern womanhood reminds us that the blood-bond of sisterhood has hard edges For 40 years, the photographer Nicholas Nixon took a…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCharacters including The Great Gatsby's Daisy round on a Greek god in this bewildering Christmas show The setting is a cabaret-style jazz club with saxophonist, dru…
National Theatre, LondonGaiman's novel turns into a dynamic and quirky stage spectacular, though at the expense of the more nuanced relationships There are some hair-raising monsters in The…
Almeida, LondonLydia Wilson is riveting as the strong-willed duchess in Rebecca Frecknall's arresting update When The Duchess of Malfi was revived in 1945 after falling out of fashion for ce…
Bunker, LondonMatilda Ibini's autobiographical coming-of-age play mixes serious scenes with underpowered comedy sketches Little Miss Burden begins as a Jackanory-style story, narrated by two…
This year, the tried-and-tested tale at London's Old Vic is up against subversive surprises at Wilton's Music Hall, where Scrooge's sister takes the lead Charles Dickens knew he had struck g…
Royal Court, LondonSaturating the senses with sound, light and sign language, this imaginative experience explores whether the web can free us from our 'glitching' bodies In Midnight Movie, …