Her hit drama The Diary of a Hounslow Girl was picked up by the BBC. Now, the fast-rising playwright is capturing the female experience of London gang culture Ambreen Razia always describes …
Curve, LeicesterHareet Deol and Jay Varsani are astonishing in this adaptation of Riaz Khan's book about masculinity and identity "Growing up a young Pakistani boy in Leicester was tough," w…
Arcola, LondonA cast of five take on more than 20 characters in Hal Coase's experimental adaptation of the novelVirginia Woolf's 1925 novel about a day in the life (and life in the day) of C…
Barbican, LondonHelen Morse and a 200-strong chorus give a majestic ode to the everyday people whose stories are buried within Homer's epicAlice Oswald's 2011 poem, an excavation of Homer's …
Royal Court, LondonDebris Stevenson tells how grime became her salvation in a show that explores race, representation and authenticityIn 2003, Dizzee Rascal won the Mercury prize for the sem…
Gate theatre, LondonGuilt, anguish and female torment shape a spectacular star turn in this revival of Jean Cocteau's study of a woman on the brinkJean Cocteau's 50-minute monologue of a wom…
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOkri holds faithfully to the philosopher-novelist's voice and vision in a striking staging with Sam Frenchum as Meursault'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterd…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe doomed sisters release their inner goths in this fantastically witty, mischievous and camp musical update of their tragic livesThe lives of the Brontë siste…
Vinay Patel's ambitious, highly personal new play, a young couple leave behind from India in search of a better life'Pick me and I will make us … the greatest adventure you could ever have…
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Queen's theatre, HornchurchAtiha Sen Gupta creates a companion piece for Leigh's story while a revival proves the origi…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis profound and beautiful study of surrealist Leonora Carrington, once the partner of Max Ernst, ingeniously contrasts scenes from her early and late careerThe…
Theatre Royal, Bath With a starry cast that includes Elizabeth McGovern and Ralf Little, this revival of Yasmina Reza's menace-filled comedy emphasises the laughs but loses the play's savage…
Actor Jade Anouka prepared to play Hotspur by watching videos of boxer Nicola Adams. Adams, in turn, acted in her youth and hopes to again. They met up to talk breaking boundaries, performan…
Old Red Lion, LondonThis improvised John le Carré parody is only as clever and funny as its liveliest participantsLamplighters is a thriller set in the mould of John le Carré's cold-war sp…
Duke of York's, LondonThe 79-year-old star shines brightest in play's darkest moments, in what may be his last big Shakespearean role on stageA tweet pinned to Sir Ian McKellen's Twitter acc…
Park theatre, LondonStephanie Martin's drama " part comedy of manners and part state-of-the-nation play " is one killer scene short of greatnessAlkaline takes the well-worn drama of the midd…
Roundhouse, LondonThe Hot Brown Honey collective join forces with nine young performers to explore prejudice in a blast of hip-hop and burlesqueLast year, the Roundhouse put out an open call…
Feanedock, National ForestA new arts extravaganza offers campfire stories, breathtaking theatre, laughing yoga and lessons on how to think like a treeStand on a hillock in Feanedock and you …
Arcola, LondonThere are storming performances in this play about two British Pakistani Londoners whose friendship is tested after the 2005 terror attacks'What do you see when you look at me?…
Bush theatre, LondonThere is tenderness and humour in Ben Weatherill's play about a young woman with Down's syndrome caught between her boyfriend and her motherThe stage is so over-filled wi…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonA superb cast deliver striking performances in a production that is knowingly dissonant, from the costumes to the climaxThe perennial question of this "problem pla…
Watermill theatre, NewburyRave music thumps as Jasper Britton plays the refusenik in an intimate revival of the drama about Albion's dark heartIt takes courage to revive a play that was deem…
Royal Court, LondonAnna Deavere Smith's powerful one-woman show highlights the shocking injustices faced by African Americans 'This is American history, not African American history," clarif…
Sheffield Crucible There are strong performances in an adaptation that gets closer to Ken Kesey's novel than the popular film versionWhen Ken Kesey's novel was first staged in 1963, he told …
Arcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr directs an arresting version of Lola Shoneyin's novel about marital power-play and sexual envy"Sir, you will deposit your sperm inside," a hospital nurse inst…