All-star Pinter, a Suranne Jones thriller and Carey Mulligan goes solo: 2018's essential theatre
Brace yourself for The Birthday Party, an EasyJet love story, Sting's shipyard musical and Ben Whishaw as BrutusToby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker and Stephen Mangan star in a revival of a Pinter play reviled at its premiere in 1958 and now accepted as a modern classic. Ian Rickson, who has already staged Betrayal and Old Times, directs a work that is like a mix of Agatha Christie and Kafka in that tantalising mystery is i…