Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor's real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw's once-banned drama to life This is not the first production of Ge…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller's classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song There is never a time when Arthur M…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIbrahima Balde's desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book Ibrahima …
Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes' queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in 'incel' forums " but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is d…
Minerva theatre, Chichester Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs The…
Bush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi's autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family's flight from Iraq with a standup's humour In the week th…
Lyttelton, LondonThis energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer's swansong Stephen Sondheim's fi…
Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes's high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare's fractious Verona The warring Houses of Montague and Capul…
Royal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan's play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast Controversies over …
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEchoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare's paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC It is not just heads tha…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonIbsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek's play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery Henrik Ibsen's Icar…
With star names, a Hamlet in shades, orgiastic murder and a miners' strike musical, Indhu Rubasingham promises something for all. But can she attract newcomers while keeping diehards happy? …
Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how i…
York Theatre RoyalOldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett's existential monologue Gary Oldman's decisi…
Old Vic, London Terrific performances from Chris O'Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse Conor McPherson's family dysfunctional drama …
Coliseum, London F Scott Fitzgerald's classic jazz age novel ought to be the perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this There is a …
To survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot's extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent " and everything changed Rosi…
Can you imagine starring in Mamma Mia! for 10 years? Or The Lion King for 17? Or Blood Brothers for 26? Theatre's epic endurance performers reveal how they keep the magic alive night after n…
Bush theatre, LondonMohamed-Zain Dada's play set at a speed awareness course bristles with humour and snarls with home truths about the bigotry experienced by British Asians Representation a…
Kiln theatre, LondonAmy Ng's 'untold true story' of two friends, who become China's foremost theatre director and Mao Zedong's wife, is a story of survival and a play of ideas It begins with…
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonWhile the story of broken dreams and desperation can't make the leap to an all-singing all-dancing setting, there are great moments among the bleakness Jo…
The celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that 'teeters on the edge of acceptabili…
New Diorama, LondonWriter-director Alan Fielden and his talented performers explore people smuggling, ancient imperialism and the sound of globalisation It starts off with single words being…
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonEvery character is distinct in this bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity Shakespearean performance has been a…
Theatre Royal WindsorWhile it might have been revealing to 1970s audiences, this domestic drama featuring cliche characters and a wavering tone fails to pack the same punch Watching Alan Ayc…