Everyman theatre, LiverpoolJulia Cranney’s play illustrates complex processes as it explores one woman’s plans to start a family but it hops too quickly through her lifeAdoption and the …
Brixton House, LondonPaula Varjack’s kinetic play uses lip syncing and dance routines to show how prejudice turned a ‘wardrobe malfunction’ into a career disasterThe year is 2004 and t…
Nottingham PlayhouseTeenage crushes, breakups, careers, kids, fallings out and unbreakable loyalty – Jane Upton gives us a sweeping story of two best matesImagine if One Day was set in Lon…
Brixton House, London Five writers contribute fizzing ideas aplenty to this play exploring questions of Latinx identity in Britain, while also attempting to deliver an undercover drama There…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA reluctant return to the valleys brings a reckoning with a violent past and problematic present in Katie Payne's vivid and raw monologue Playwright Kati…
Omnibus theatre, LondonA couple of former hedonists are reunited years later in Louis Emmitt-Stern's quick-witted dissection of bereavement and the queer dating scene History is supposed to …
Revisiting the Troubles in 1990s Belfast, Sapling is the result of intensive research in the city. And winning the Women's prize, says Duncan, 'is the maddest thing that's ever happened to m…
Soho Theatre Walthamstow, LondonShe draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression and never stops poking fun at her own quirks and compulsions 'Why did Americans decide to elect a dic…
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…
Soho theatre, LondonDesire collides with stomach-churning awkwardness in this play " which won the Women's prize " about friends heading out for some physical contact I'm watching Miriam Bat…
Bristol Old VicAn inventive production crammed full of puppets, sword fights and rousing melodies shrieks with life It's all aboard this Christmas with Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary's musica…
Watermill theatre, NewburyRelocating the Hans Christian Andersen tale to Cornwall, with its folk musicians and fishermen, Elgiva Field and Lara Barbier's show is cheery and sweet Christmas h…
Lyric Hammersmith, London A sinister giant computer and a meat-eating headmaster have a sinister plan for shy Jack and his schoolfriends. Meanwhile, the Fairy Godfather has the hots for the …
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonA rollercoaster accident leaves six choristers in limbo, each having to make their case for a second chance on Earth in this eccentric show Well, this is …
Bush theatre, LondonPerformed by an exceptional cast, Sophia's Griffin's debut play paints a vivid picture of men " and a system " in crisis The heat rises slowly, and then suddenly reaches …
Soho theatre, LondonGayathiri Kamalakanthan's warm, funny debut examines history, heritage and gender expectations as Krish and bestie Brenavee navigate a big life moment In many ways, Perio…
Birmingham RepStaged by Deafinitely Theatre, Eloise Pennycott's play sets romance against a broken, unjust system Barrier(s) is a queer love story about a couple with vastly different experi…
Park theatre, LondonA writer tries capturing the messiness of new parenting in Jane Upton's gut-punching play " every scene of which chips away at the myth that motherhood should come natura…
Riverside Studios, LondonA heavyweight political journalist underestimates the influencer he is interviewing in this sharp update of a 2003 film by Theo Van Gogh There's something fascinatin…
The once musty old art of voice-throwing is back in vogue on stage and online. Its new hip practitioners " plus 1980s TV mainstay Roger De Courcey " explain why their vocal tricks and errant…
Stratford East, LondonThis show, based on a gone-viral Tinder date in which a woman tried to dispose of her poo unconventionally, tackles the perils of modern love with wit, humour and crack…
It was a turning point in the push for African independence " and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African Congress On the fac…
Bush theatre, LondonArtistic director Taio Lawson's Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of a 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory In Danny James King's Mis…
Tara theatre, LondonHunia Chawla's intimate drama is played out across continents to tell a platonic love story that examines the challenges to freedom in Pakistan and England What does lib…
Toby Jones, Frances McDormand and Mike Myers are some of those who have appeared alongside Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree, despite never having seen the script before. As the play celebrates its …