Theatre Royal BathAllen gives a capable performance in an arresting production that gives a chilling sense of state control " but the central romance fails to fizz Seventy-five years after G…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDavid Edgar's play on the anti-communist Hollywood blacklists of the 1950s is clunky in its set-up, but offers a lively take on the personal politics of art and id…
Olivier theatre, LondonThe drama is underpowered until the end but what Lyndsey Turner's production lacks in feeling it makes up in style Placard-holding protesters bomb an elegant stage wit…
He has triumphed over controversies, the 'devastation' of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season " and his plans to take u…
Young Vic, LondonThis musical has the seeds of a brilliant show for our times with Ramin Karimloo on fine form, but its complex themes are sucked away by sledge-hammer messaging Elia Kazan's…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Macdonald's production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos Samuel Beckett's 1953 tragicomedy about two woe-begotten men waiti…
Leeds Playhouse Revival of Lorraine Hansberry's play follows a family struggling against the odds and delivers a message of hope When Lorraine Hansberry's debut play premiered in 1959, it ma…
Bush theatre, London Waleed Akhtar speeds through a 20-year alliance between two British Pakistanis rather too quickly to unfold its rich implications Waleed Akhtar's last, Olivier-winning p…
Garrick theatre, LondonToby Marlow and Lucy Moss have created powerhouse tunes about friendship, family and heartache but this story's romantic woes are often routine Two writers of musical …
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonRachel O'Riordan directs a new version of the play about the rehabilitative force of theatre in colonial Sydney The curtain is a union jack, opening on to uncultivat…
New exhibition, named after 'theatrical encyclopedia' Gabrielle Enthoven, showcases British stage history from the Restoration to Fleabag She was an avid collector of playbills, programmes a…
Arcola theatre, LondonA trio of friends reconvene in their home town to play together for the first time in two decades Band reunions seem to be in the air, or one band's, at least. Here is …
The Yard, LondonWhile its subject matter is powerful, the story of three split selves is too disconnected to follow, with one scene jumping to another and not joining up to form a whole The …
Old Vic, LondonPassion and art are dissected in tricksy style in a production that manages to wrongfoot the audience There are several circularities drawn around what is real and what is par…
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonInspired by urban legends and Afro-surrealism, Tife Kusoro's spooky tale of three schoolchildren pursued by unknown forces is an audacious original A hand curls u…
@sohoplace, LondonThe final part of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams' trilogy is a bold, brash reflection on racism and working-class identity but the tone is too screamy for the tension to build…
The Studio, EdinburghFiction and reality blur in this unruly but utterly engrossing show, which blends documentary and theatre " and will stay with you long after you have left There seems t…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghActor-playwright Libby Rodliffe plays plate-spinning Bea, desperately working several jobs, in a monologue co-written with Isley Lynn Jobsworth is billed as a r…
Lyceum, Edinburgh In David Ireland's complex two-hander, co-starring Sean Gilder, a troubled youth is persuaded to join the 12-step programme by a former addict There are few certainties in …
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh A polemical show blends powerful audio recordings of those at the sharp end of the austerity economy with distracting stage business This drama's title alludes…
Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Maddie Lynes' play subtly tracks a sibling relationship across the decades, sliding between flashbacks and the present day Three Sisters Productions is a th…
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh Emma Taylor gives magnetic life to a spectrum of mansplaining and rage but these scenes don't quite build towards a bigger vision A fast sequence of scen…
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Joe Sellman-Leava's dramatised lecture, with droll asides from Dylan Howells, could hit harder at a greater length The title is a phrase coined by a strategist for …
Assembly George Square, EdinburghGlasgow-based Singaporean d/Deaf writer and actor Ramesh Meyyappan is Harry, who is trying to piece together his life story like an existential detective Thi…
The Studio, EdinburghÉmilie Monnet of the Anishinaabe of the Canadian Great Lakes and Waira Nina of the Inga of the Colombian Amazon immerse the audience in a ritual of light, sound and …