Almeida theatre, LondonAnya Reiss packs the marriage scandal plot with inspired ideas, from convincing talk of Instagram to a look at sexual dynamics in the crosshairs of contemporary capita…
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonThe songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance " though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliant The scope and ambition of this dark…
Dorfman theatre, LondonComedy infuses Winsome Pinnock's disarming but ebullient drama about two Black academics who are given the job of authenticating the diaries of an enslaver You don't i…
National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer whil…
Royal Court theatre, LondonA class on The Crucible unearths troubling parallels for a group of teen girls in Kimberly Belflower's play set in the wake of the Weinstein scandal Kimberly Belfl…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonJocelyn Bioh's comedy " following a day in the life of a Harlem braiding salon " is filled with humour and hijinks 'Don't touch my hair" is a racially-charged statem…
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe's pure chemistry perfectly encapsulates the urgent and uncompromising nature of first love Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle wh…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonCo-artistic director Tamara Harvey stages a well-acted production that never hits as hard as it should The bellicose patriotism in this, the las…
Duke of York's theatre, LondonFifty years since David Hare's play was first staged, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is inspired casting as a singer who refuses to go out without a bang David Hare's 1975…
The writer, actor and singer won an award for her role in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Then everything went silent. As the rising star returns in her very own musical, she hi…
Hampstead theatre, LondonUS businessman-turned-playwright Aaron Loeb combines medical tech concepts with knotty dilemmas and Mamet-esque dialogue An earnest research scientist turns up at a …
Olivier theatre, LondonWriters Nina and Moses Raine add comedy and raunch to Maxim Gorky's satire of the holidaying elite In 1898, Maxim Gorky wrote a fan letter to Anton Chekhov. Gorky was …
Watford Palace theatrePaying tribute to his grandfather whose 1983 show at the same venue lasted only one night the actor and comedian skilfully unveils a big reveal worthy of Inside No 9 Th…
Mercury theatre, Colchester The targets of the infamous 17th-century 'witchfinder general' narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore's novel 'It does not matter what is true," a teenager…
Young Vic, LondonJordan Fein's revival finds hypnotic power in Miller's 1994 play, as Pearl Chanda and Eli Gelb bring haunting emotional force to a story of paralysis and denial Some might s…
Arcola theatre, London Nicolas Kent directs a set of short plays by British and Ukrainian writers giving devastating vignettes from the conflict Nicolas Kent's concept for a series of short …
King's Head theatre, LondonJessica Regan creates a collaborative collage of the capital and its romantic encounters, eccentric flatmates and eye-watering rents Jessica Regan's promising one-…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonEmerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV's Adolescence The audience enters through a …
Donmar Warehouse, London The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler's two-hander about grief and family There are many ingenious ideas in Anna Ziegler's spa…
Hampstead theatre, London Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell's new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life This is a play about George…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon After a book, a film and a Ted Talk, William Kamkwamba's heroically inventive response to floods, drought and starvation is now delivered with energetic son…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe Black Panther actor's melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic Chadwick Boseman was not only an acco…
Noël Coward theatre, LondonDeploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker's characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required Are people born wi…
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 …
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…