Park theatre, London Patrick Marber updates Strindberg's story to a country house in 1945, where upstairs-downstairs disaffection drives the drama Strindberg claimed that he wrote Miss Jul…
David Nicholls's romantic saga is heading to stage, in the very city where its characters first felt the sparks fly. But how to cram 20 years of romance into two tune-filled hours? By focusi…
He left school at 15 and worked as a scaffolder. Then success on New Faces launched him to stardom " and he's been a panto and musicals sensation ever since. So what made him write a comedy …
Soho theatre, LondonThe former child magician from New York combines PowerPoint and personal trauma in an off-Broadway import that packs a considerable punch Two species of modern standup jo…
Omnibus theatre, London Inspired by the 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller, the lost hopes and memories of a young Black woman " played beautifully by Jada Evelyn Ramsey " are explored through w…
Bush theatre, London Karim Khan's tender portrait of South Asians finding companionship through shared grief and illness is played with crackling chemistry by Shobu Kapoor and Rehan Sheikh L…
Auditorium to remove bacon and sausages from cafe during stage run after request from campaign group Campaigners are calling on theatre bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in thei…
Aldwych theatre, LondonWilliam Nicholson's take on CS Lewis's marriage to an American divorcee should have you in bits but it fails to feel as eviscerating as it should The drama of love and…
Apollo theatre, London Jonathan Lynn's farewell to the beloved parliamentary sitcom casts Griff Rhys Jones as ex-PM Jim Hacker, making one last call on his wily consigliere Death comes to us…
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonCave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls' savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans Love is expre…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Using photographs from an archive album of Auschwitz staff relaxing, this searing drama builds into an unforgettable inquiry This play is based around a …
Sadler's Wells East, LondonThe all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance's high art and sillier side When the curtain goes up h…
Theatre503, LondonOlga Braga's award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms " finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat Olga Braga's stark new …
Sadler's Wells, LondonTanztheater Wuppertal's dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance Pina Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert …
The Complicité founder remembers his teacher's wicked laughter, provocative demands and infinite generosity ' Philippe Gaulier dies aged 82 Many speak of a teacher in their childhood who ch…
Hull TruckIn a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe For a play that ends so bloodily, Macbeth starts like an improvis…
The Corn Exchange, NewburyThere are quirky, characterful dances, bodies melting together and understated charisma in this story of a famed 1920s lesbian club Le Monocle was a famed lesbian c…
Linbury theatre, LondonGlen Tetley's landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg's atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged Sometimes the revival of an old work can make it, a…
Actor's comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts Kristin Scott Thomas has accused male theatre critics of failing to understand plays written by women…
Dorfman theatre, LondonA financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller The National Theatre is certain…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonJerome Kilty's fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell When Jerome Kilty was …
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson's novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of change Flora Thompson's autobiogr…
Cast, DoncasterThrough the eyes of two working-class teenagers, a legendary 90s Doncaster nightclub is brought back to life in Danielle Phillips's sparky but quietly perceptive play If you w…
The master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment " and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage ' Philippe Gaulier, cl…
Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson Master clown Philippe Gaulier, the infl…