Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonUnfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner If you've never he…
Ambassadors theatre, LondonRelocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching show F Scott Fitzgerald's tale of a man who ages in reverse …
Hampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily's play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed Cecilia Payne-Gaposch…
Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are…
From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality " and life in Britain today Will no one …
Kiln theatre, LondonSophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life Music, says Hattie, …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonToxic masculinity rears its head in Rachel Bagshaw's Globe debut which proves less interested in horror effects than the characters' emotional journeys John We…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe performances are superb in this tale of a family dealing with bipolar disorder but the storyline is thin Given that Next to Normal is about a woman with bipolar d…
Arcola theatre, LondonIn a week when English cricket was found guilty of deep-rooted racism, an affecting tale of discrimination dismissed as banter feels particularly profound This one-man …
Theatre Royal BathDespite charismatic performances and real chemistry, the classic Audrey Hepburn romcom falters in its transition into a Cole Porter jukebox musical Jeremy Sams' production …
Royal Court, LondonSet in a future police state, Tom Fowler's play sees two women go on the run in a feverish reimagining of Thelma and Louise The winning scene that opens Tom Fowler's new w…
Fortune theatre, LondonWith gag-packed songs and gender-swapped roles, this fringe show about a secret service plot is a joyful success on the big stage SpitLip's anarchic adaptation of one …
Chichester Festival theatreLia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit There's a tableau in this production of The Vortex wher…
Arcola, LondonWhat starts as a comedy of sibling manners ends in a soap opera-like recital of childhood abuses and family grievances The question of what we inherit from our parents has been…
Daniel Fish's restaging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is no Kansas City cornbread caper. The director explains why he ratcheted up the racial tension and gun violence In the Oklahom…
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThe whiff of hamminess is never absent from the Zorro story and here both script and performances are endearingly alive to a sense of the ridiculous Swipe right!…
Dorfman, LondonAlecky Blythe's masterful play " which features a brilliantly charismatic cast " follows real youngsters across five years of their lives Ali, 14, wants to be a criminal lawye…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonLikable leads who act with great verve are let down by a weak story that can't hold the weight of its themes Given the scale of the environmental challenges faci…
Park theatre, LondonLydia White is magnetic as the aspirational Jo in an uneven but stirring adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic Jo March is a heroine well suited to musical theatre. S…
Park theatre, LondonMike Leigh's 1970s masterpiece of aggressive hospitality, embarrassing silences and gauche behaviour is back in a slightly more naturalistic portrayal Mike Leigh's comic …
He has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare's tragedy, alongside his wife, at the GlobePaul Ready is spooked …
Some cover their feet in glue, others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what performing night after night does to a dancer's feetIt should have been the best day of Jen…
A new play at the National Theatre, Here We Go, takes an unflinching look at death. What would real-life carers think of it? We took a group to find out Continue reading...
She stole the show as a weightlifting Earl of Douglas in the all-female Henry IV. Now Cynthia Erivo is off to Broadway " and Jennifer Hudson is asking her for stage tipsCynthia Erivo would l…
He's been a terrifying Miss Trunchbull, a convincing Nick Clegg, and now, in the BBC's Sunday-night drama, he's a magical Jonathan Strange. Emma John meets actor Bertie Carvel Continue readi…