Soho theatre, LondonRita Kalnejais's startling, very funny interspecies romance features a grieving vixen, a fatalistic mole and some hilarious chickensThere are no fleas on the Australian p…
The tabloids may be astonished by some of the offerings in this year's Spill festival, such as Jackson's Site, but they play on the possibility of art as a transforming experienceAnyone vent…
Top London productions such as Oresteia and Measure for Measure are coming to a close, but nationwide festivals like Emerge and Chrysalis are just beginningStaging a Revolution celebrates th…
The Pit, Barbican, LondonKaren Finley is like a medium, raising the 1980s ghosts of Aids and homophobia in a piece that seethes with angerIt is probably hard for those raised in an era of ci…
Royal Court, London The TEAM's two-hander takes a trip to Graceland with Elvis and Teddy Roosevelt in this ebullient dissection of gender identity and the American dreamFor a decade New York…
In productions like Can I Start Again Please and Grounded, sign language is thrillingly folded into speech " but more needs to be done to encourage these hybridsFourteen years ago I went to …
Nuffield theatre, Southampton Design for Ultz turns Tennessee Williams's memory play into a film being directed in the mind's eye of its main character. But that leaves the audience at a dis…
Legendary US performance artist Karen Finley opens the Spill festival in London, Alistair McDowell's creepy Pomona hits Manchester, and Dirty Protest are on tour in Wales Continue reading...
National Theatre (temporary space), LondonBijan Sheibani's production deflates the comedy's emotional clout and sells its young audiences short, despite some engaging performancesRecent revi…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonPatrick Hamilton's atmospheric melodrama, revived by Lucy Bailey, is creaky old tosh but hugely entertainingTara Fitzgerald may be the star of Lucy Bailey's re…
A light touch and generous manner from the staff can turn an evening from good to great, affecting the way you feel about the show " and about returning to the venueWhen Scotland's Grid Iron…
Curve theatre, Leicester Tennessee Williams's drama of faded dreams is told with a youthful cast, including Dakota Blue Richards. It's just a shame you can't hear them"I don't want realism. …
Polka theatre, LondonParents and tiny tyrants alike will enjoy Theatre-Rites' puppet show about a babe in the woodsIt takes real maturity and confidence to make a show like Theatre-Rites' Be…
Soho theatre, LondonTanya Moodie impresses as society's outsider " ignored by individuals, failed by institutions " in a quintet of monologuesJoanne is the young woman you glimpse sleeping i…
Regional theatres will thrive when they are democratic open spaces, where communities gather to share ideas about the lives they lead and aspire to"Money's nice, but connections and conversa…
Watford Palace theatreUnlovely Alan comes up against his Indian heritage in Neil D'Souza's play, but even a magical realist tiger can't keep all these big ideas in focusWhen middle-aged, UK-…
Grid Iron tour in Scotland, Little Bulb are in Liverpool, Figs in Wigs and Uninvited Guests are in Bristol and New York's brilliant the Team take up residence at the Royal CourtAnne-Marie Du…
Lyndsey Turner's monumental Barbican production, broadcast to a global audience last night by NT Live, has visual swagger and an infinitely touching prince Related: Cumberfans on Hamlet: 'I …
Bristol Old Vic An evening of high-quality storytelling, especially from leads Dean Lennox Kelly and Neve McIntosh, though the tension lags after three and a half hoursTom Morris's productio…
King's Cross theatre, LondonRazor-sharp lyrics and a hugely talented cast make this hip-hop musical about Latino communities on the breadline in New York a feelgood spectacleLin-Manuel Miran…
From pregnancy onwards the industry turns its back on mothers, claim campaigners. Then there's the issue of affordable childcare … After the actor Laura Wells became pregnant, the work off…
Stratford Circus, LondonA Trinidadian woman reflects on the twists that have left her alone in life, in an affecting debut play by Michelle InnissEvangeline, played by Cathy Tyson, was born …
As they chop veg, the audience bond over stories of life and death in Leo Burtin's interactive piece The Midnight Soup, a tribute to his late grandmotherLeo Burtin calls his theatre show The…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonFamiliar places are given mysterious twists in this intriguing but poorly executed performance-cum-game You know that sense of dislocation you get when you retur…
Nightjars spread their wings in Bristol before circus takes over the city, there's pop-up theatre in Plymouth, Nikolai Foster unveils his Curve debut, and it's kick-off for Kenneth Branagh i…