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The Father | The Book Of Mormon | People, Places And Things | In The Heights | King LearSeventy-one-year-old Kenneth Cranham beat both Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Rylance to win this year'…
Hackney Showroom, LondonUpswing's charming show celebrates the place that bedtime stories have in a happy family life and why parents also benefit from the power of dreaming Continue reading…
In Bromance, they sketched out their blossoming friendship in dance and circus tricks. Now the Barely Methodical Troupe are riffing on Lord of the Flies with their new show Kin. They explain…
Shakespeare is now more popular abroad than in the UK, thanks in part to a government keen to preserve him as a tourist attraction. But by putting him on a pedestal, we threaten to kill him …
Salisbury PlayhouseThe rural touring company Pentabus consider our evolving relationship to the land " and how fracking can damage more than just the landscape Bea and Joseph have moved with…
Hugh Bonneville stars in An Enemy of the People in Chichester and Ivo Van Hove returns to the Barbican " plus the rest of the week's best theatre The 2016 Chichester season begins with Stile…
Curve, LeicesterColonialism, class and family fall under the spotlight as Asian and British soldiers take refuge in a barn during the first world warLand takes on many meanings in Ishy Din's…
Curve, LeicesterLucie Jones brings a winning energy to the tale of a sorority girl who goes to Harvard, but 15 years haven't been kind to the show's skin-deep central messageLikable, but nev…
Right Now | People, Places And Things | Kings Of War | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | The Shepherd's Life A young couple, Ben and Alice, move into a new apartment. The neighbours pop over. Then …
Plays such as Boy, Re:Home and Yen serve up downtrodden lives for wealthy audiences " and can verge on cultural tourism. But presented carefully, they're essential reminders of the brutal in…
The Vaults, LondonThis lazy, unimaginative stage version of RL Stine's creepy children's stories relies on cheap effects and barely qualifies as theatre, let alone horrorThe title lies. This…
Orange Tree, Richmond A jittery teacher dreams a bomb lurks under school in a funny, engrossing play that pairs emerging writer Brad Birch with award-winning director Mel HillyardPaul Miller…
Outrage has greeted the news that two exam boards say it is no longer compulsory for pupils to see a live performance. But digital streaming could turn more children on to theatre than ever …
Old Red Lion, LondonFelix Trench's intriguingly surreal drama about an old man communing with the cosmos would be better heard but not seenA young man goes for a walk down a canal path and s…
Roundhouse, LondonThis all-male troupe impress with their human cannonballs and religious spin on the wheel of death, but the audience remains emotionally detachedCircusFest 2016, taking pla…
The new boss of Shakespeare's Globe admits she doesn't always understand the world's biggest playwright. But a gender-swapping Midsummer Night's Dream shows she won't be playing it safeEmma …
Big openings include Maureen Lipman in My Mother Said I Never Should, and New York hit The Flick " plus the rest of the week's must-see productionsPeople, Places and Things is unmissable at …
With her Olivier-winning performance in People, Places and Things, Denise Gough played a role that is all too rare for women " one where she explores what it is to be human, rather than fema…
Initiatives like Playing Up and Haphazard are turning children into artists, and at a time of political apathy and risk aversion, they can also teach adults to playMost people interested in …
Barbican, LondonThere are, of course, three types of people: those who can count and those who can't. As I'm firmly in the latter camp, Complicité's A Disappearing Number - returning to the…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton Michael Webster shifts the focus of Shakespeare's monumental royal drama towards the younger generation, in a clear and pacy productionIt's less of a leap tha…
Camden People's theatre, LondonA fitfully entertaining portrayal of George Price, the mathematical geneticist who tried, and fatally failed, to disprove that altruism is selfishThe father of…
Brentwood theatre, EssexPolly Wiseman's play about black GIs recruited in East Anglia during the war is sometimes clunky, but shows love doesn't always conquer all " especially racismWhen th…
Stephen Rea stars at the Royal Court, Kit Harrington plays Dr Faustus, and the superb Buzzcut festival starts in GlasgowThe Roundhouse's CircusFest 2016 begins in London, and there's somethi…
Ustinov Studio, BathMichel Tremblay's portrait of marriage is effortlessly transposed to 1970s Dublin in a production that never quite grabs the heartAll children eavesdrop on their parents'…
