The play's the thing. But what's so wrong with the RSC's plan to also let people have dinner, or catch the last train home? "How poor are they that have not patience!". So implores Iago in d…
The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers' royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus Alice in Wonderland reimagined in Partition-era Ind…
Dorfman theatre, LondonWhile the aesthetics are arresting, Amit Lahav's play lacks the specificity to create any emotional depth A drama about the epic horrors that migrants have faced could…
It is one of the most electrifying and unsettling sounds in theatre. Should we be encouraging crowds to do it more? Experts tell us about booing's origins " and actors remember being on the …
Park theatre, London Ins Choi's comedy set in a Korean Canadian shop has an irresistible charm, despite at times feeling like a best-sketch montage from its TV forerunner Before Kim's Conven…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonSet in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children's games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing We …
Ambassadors theatre, LondonWhile it doesn't have the big jump scares of 2:22: A Ghost Story or The Woman in Black, this lo-fi horror builds in creepiness How well does horror play out on sta…
Riverside Studios, LondonThe compelling life of the world-changing mathematician and logician is somehow rendered unremarkable in a drab musical Alan Turing's life was without doubt dramatic…
King's Head theatre, LondonSet in San Francisco's art world, Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle's frothy farce brings a contemporary gay twist to an old-school comic formula This frothy gay…
Hampstead theatre, LondonStalin's daughter and a white supremacist's son navigate their psychological inheritances as scenarios and characters change quickly in a blizzard of ideas This Rubi…
Arcola theatre, LondonThis timely revival of Tim Price's monologue about a rough sleeper drawn into activism leaves little space for vulnerability 'Got any change?" asks a man with a woolly …
The staging is imaginative and expressive, and the audience is immersed in the action by hearing everything through headphones This is the second starry adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish …
Phoenix theatre, LondonThis origin story has all the dark mystery of the Duffer Brothers' Netflix series and delivers one coup de theatre after another It starts with those floating red lett…
Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Ireland's explosive satire turns into farce as two buffoons parading as progressives team up with a dramatist played by Louisa Harland Two white men in show bu…
Hampstead theatre, LondonStoppard's 2006 play asks important ideological questions with typically fizzing wordplay but its growling, feral energy comes too late Tom Stoppard has spoken of th…
The NT's newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability " and the magnificently unexpected " to her new post Finally…
Royal Court theatre, LondonChris Thorpe's one-man show is more of a scrappy routine than a meaningful call for disarmament There are nine nations in the world that possess nuclear weapons, w…
Young Vic, LondonPlaying a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter's snapshot of misogyny Harold Pinter's two-act family drama h…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonCo-production with Osaka company brings 1976 study of American imperialism arriving in Japan to subtle, funny life When Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical premie…
Theatre503, LondonRoxy Cook's award-winning debut is a whimsical, layered meta-tale about the clash of old Soviet ways and modern, capitalist culture This play opens just as the title promis…
Bristol Old VicPart panto, part Arabian version of EastEnders, writer Sonali Bhattacharyya, and a winning cast have cobbled together a fizzing modern-day fable about the power of storytellin…
The Depot, LiverpoolStaged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin's intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore At first, it looks like …
Lyttelton theatre, LondonAdapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience 'To be born a woman is the worst punishment…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize If the title of Ibsen's 1881 tragedy about…
Olivier theatre, LondonRoald Dahl's villains are given a makeover with a gag-filled script by Lucy Kirkwood and a couple of storming numbers In Roald Dahl's universe, witches are the most da…