Lazzaretto Vecchio, VeniceOn the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritu…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonAmelia Sears' production of Terence Rattigan's knotted drama contains warmth " and love " beneath the disappointments of married life Terence Rattigan distilled th…
Hampstead theatre, LondonSarah Ruhl's stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant Sarah Ruhl…
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonTim Firth's 2013 musical about domestic dysfunction and redemption seems a little twee by today's standards but the songs and sentimental ending will stil…
★★★★☆ / ★★★★★Theatro Technis, LondonPainful yet joyous and with pitch-black humour, these plays are as good as testimonies to the …
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonGreat 1970s costumes, bubbling performances and an elegant set tee up this adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's novel about a Sikh family facing Enoch Powell-era racism …
A smattering of famous names, a big-ambition project, a gay classic and a musical thriller … the powerhouse artistic director's final productions have all his hallmarks, showing how he mad…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, LondonThe cast of six women and one man give extraordinary physical performances " but most devastating is the stillness that reflects their paralysis…
Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor's real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw's once-banned drama to life This is not the first production of Ge…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller's classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song There is never a time when Arthur M…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIbrahima Balde's desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book Ibrahima …
Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes' queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in 'incel' forums " but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is d…
Minerva theatre, Chichester Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs The…
Bush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi's autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family's flight from Iraq with a standup's humour In the week th…
Lyttelton, LondonThis energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer's swansong Stephen Sondheim's fi…
Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes's high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare's fractious Verona The warring Houses of Montague and Capul…
Royal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan's play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast Controversies over …
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEchoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare's paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC It is not just heads tha…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonIbsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek's play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery Henrik Ibsen's Icar…
With star names, a Hamlet in shades, orgiastic murder and a miners' strike musical, Indhu Rubasingham promises something for all. But can she attract newcomers while keeping diehards happy? …
Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how i…
York Theatre RoyalOldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett's existential monologue Gary Oldman's decisi…
Old Vic, London Terrific performances from Chris O'Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse Conor McPherson's family dysfunctional drama …
Coliseum, London F Scott Fitzgerald's classic jazz age novel ought to be the perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this There is a …
To survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot's extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent " and everything changed Rosi…