Belgrade theatre, Coventry Amy Ng's family drama has the seeds of a great story, but is undone by melodrama and parody The definition of a good future differs significantly for three generat…
O2 Academy, Newcastle Ill-judged jokes and a lack of wit and grit make for a tedious set from one of the queens on RuPaul's series In an interview with Rolling Stone, drag queen Trixie Matte…
Two joyful shows " And the Rest of Me Floats and Sex Sex Men Men " use standup and striptease to discuss trans rights, pegging and the patriarchy In their kaleidoscopic celebrations of queer…
Bush theatre, LondonEve Leigh's new play " about grief and old age " is overbearing in its manipulative attempts to make us feel sad It is billed as a magic show about grief but The Trick ha…
Ustinov Studio, Bath Tanya Barfield's 2006 play about a man meeting his ancestors asks: am I ever black or white enough?Tracing four generations backwards from 1995, Tanya Barfield's 2006 pl…
The Drum, PlymouthSam Steiner's hilariously bleak show about helpline volunteers has a charming cynicism and moments of compassionIn his new play, Sam Steiner makes us beam as the world burn…
Vault festival, LondonThe ethereal star " as seen in an exuberant drag act by Tom Lenk " becomes a spirit guide in this wry show about the role movies play in our livesExuberantly strange an…
Sherman theatre, CardiffEvery emotion is tangible as Elgan Rhys's play about a 30-something gay couple races to a violent climaxWoof is a triumph for the Sherman theatre. In Elgan Rhys's per…
Royal Court, LondonNicôle Lecky's astute one-woman show, punctuated with rap, pins down the financial and moral dilemmas of her peersBusiness and pleasure collide and combust in Nicôle…
'demonstrating how hard true understanding - of both oneself and of another - is to achieve': Kate Wyver writes on the NOW Festival Week 3 double bill. The post Review: NOW19 – Greg W…
Vault festival, LondonHolly Beasley-Garrigan didn't want to perform a show about being a gay working-class woman, she tells her audience … that's just how arts funding worksWith anger and …
Barbican, London Les Antliaclastes' puppet show is a bewitching ride through the dark side of fairytales with close attention to detailDarkly comic and absurdly charming, this wild gothic ri…
Pleasance, LondonTwo women blot out life's blemishes with feather boas and Shirley Bassey songs until their friendship begins to sourIsolation is gilded in glitter in Annie Jenkins' tender d…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA king's daughter sells her unborn baby to a wicked fashion designer in a patronising show with abrasive songsMoney can't buy love but it can buy theatre tickets.…
Tobacco Factory, BristolBea Roberts' adaptation is best when it amps up its visual gags, though it searches for a plot and a perspectiveThe world can be scary when everything else is bigger …
Southbank Centre, LondonTim Etchells and Forced Entertainment present a mesmeric show in which a young cast consider what grownups tell them'You tell us to grow up." On a simple set of scrap…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryA well-intentioned comedy show about female war heroes unintentionally undermines its own ambitionsWhen a panto's biggest laughs are canned, it is not a great sign.…
From dreams of destruction to alien encounters, these fledging companies are making impressive experimental workAt this summer's Edinburgh fringe, Oxford graduates This Noise presented Natha…
Camden People's Theatre, LondonInspired by Vladimir Nabokov, this patience-trying piece about a prisoner awaiting execution is full of lazy surrealism and tired gamesWhen the prisoner (Greg …
Royal Court, LondonA tracksuit-clad wolf stalks a mother and son through the forest in Lucy Morrison's stunningly designed enigma of a showAn exquisite woodland shrouds the Royal Court theat…
Norwich Theatre RoyalAudiences experience a taste of how the 1% travel " and eat " in Curious Directive's ambitious showIt took years of experimenting for the Wright brothers to get airborne…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonAs part of the theatre's Phoenix season, Amit Lahav brings his production back to where a fire halted their run and damaged the buildingIn 2015 a fire swallowed …
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThe audience wear ponchos for this one-man show about a schoolboy trying to keep his head above water, and learning it's OK to be awkwardGoggles on and guit…
Lyceum, EdinburghKatie Mitchell and Alice Birch's stage adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novella is skilfully designed but strangely dullingKatie Mitchell and Alice Birch's fourth collaborat…
Traverse, EdinburghDarlingheart's Cora Bissett writes and stars in an artfully told look at the highs and lows of her time in a bandCora Bissett was a teenager when her Glenrothes-based band…