Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter This virtual conversation between Samuel …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJenna Fincken's one-woman play, inspired by real stories, gets inside the head of a young woman in a toxic relationship Jenna Fincken's one-woman play anatomises a…
Half Moon theatre, LondonElayne Ogbeta's play explores intergenerational love as a man struggles to tell his granddaughter that he is leaving Britain I have not told my nieces what Grandad A…
Duke of York's Theatre, LondonRobert Icke's combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences The return …
Rodreguez King-Dorset takes the stage as three protagonists in a coruscating drama about the Windrush scandal Rodreguez King-Dorset's drama about racism and the Windrush scandal first took l…
Hampstead theatre, LondonGeorgina Burns' debut play about an overburdened counselling unit presents perceptive insights and no easy answers A therapist at an NHS counselling unit jokes darkl…
Available onlineWriter Jessica Walker sings strongly but this tale of family dysfunction and abuse doesn't hang together It is reassuring to see online shows being made beyond pandemic neces…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonGary Owen's magnificent one-woman monologue brings Greek tragedy to Cardiff and reveals the terrible emotional costs of our societal shortfalls This monologue was f…
Bridge theatre, LondonTurning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner's production is held together by some powerhouse performances Reviving a lesser-staged Ib…
National Theatre, LondonDirector Lyndsey Turner misses the opportunity to give Arthur Miller's allegory modern resonance with a too-faithful interpretation Arthur Miller's play used the Sale…
Royal Court, London Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results f…
Audible Originals Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity Cush Ju…
Audible Originals What happened next to headstrong Lydia Bennet, the most rock'n'roll of the Pride and Prejudice sisters? This intriguing take by Sarah Page reunites Jessie Buckley and Johnn…
The Old Vic, LondonWhat begins as a broad takedown of the liberal left morphs into an engrossing and textured debate on social justice, vaccination and the pull of conspiracy theory Eureka D…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London At first, Anthony Neilson's play is a bewildering affair, but its sombre aftermath imparts understanding with crushing effect Anthony Neilson's 2004 dram…
How do you give the star-cross'd lovers a lift? Drop them in 12th-century Japan and add a classic Queen album. As it opens in Britain, A Night at the Kabuki sends shivers down our writer's s…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonA bestselling romance writer leaves his wife for a glamorous new partner in this 1940 play whose gender politics feel toothless now Dorothy L Sayers is not prima…
Arcola, LondonKyo Choi's shocking and intelligent play tells the story of a Korean woman who was forced into military sex slavery for Japanese troops at the age of 16 The Apology dramatises …
Enid Blyton's adventurers roam the stage in a new show that considers the climate crisis, gender identity and the impact of the pandemic on children Anyone who has grown up reading The Famou…
Bush theatre, LondonWaleed Akhtar's bewitching love story between a gym bunny and an asylum seeker raises urgent issues The P Word is a love story with shades of When Harry Met Sally: it has…
Kiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini's clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher's legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch It is unnerving t…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe venerable director's drama about a doctor's splintering family broaches huge issues but never makes a unified whole The pandemic has brought out the budding play…
Almeida, LondonA family fight about politics, policing and race in Dipo Baruwa-Etti's play but the ominous early signs lead nowhere The Clinic starts off with a satirical set piece as a Blac…
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, LondonInua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their ow…
Young Vic, LondonHans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove's adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis A one-minute silence marking t…