Theatre503, LondonOlga Braga's award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms " finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat Olga Braga's stark new …
New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash's doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments secti…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonOllie Maddigan's open-hearted solo show about a motherless 15-year-old is full of crude comedy and swaggering confidence " until it exposes the grief underneath a…
When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring b…
The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn't. Now she's determined to use success to …
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Priestley's shenanigan-filled 1934 comedy, three couples discover they are not married after all " meaning the men lose authority and the women gain freedoms Stom…
Ambassadors theatre, LondonWith expert direction and eye-catching stagecraft, the tension is ramped up in a play inspired by the film franchise Darkness holds us long enough for the dread to…
Soho theatre, LondonSex Education's Patricia Allison and The Gold's Stefanie Martini star in Jess Edwards's debut play about love and science The red flags are raised and waving. This queer …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonDirector Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies' feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with bloo…
White Bear theatre, LondonWriter Gary Owen stitches together glimpses of contemporary life with a spin on Arthur Schnitzler's classic that doesn't quite coalesce Gary Owen's gentle dance of …
Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley's conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real Logic and reason are torn t…
This madcap variety show sees its titular lead direct proceedings from her control desk. Rachel, her co-star sister and their mum explain what it reveals about disability in the UK Rachel O…
It's been the biggest secret in theatre: what will the marmalade-loving, hyper-polite Peruvian look like in Paddington the Musical? As the curtain rises, we speak to the new bear's creator, …
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta's forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period The muscle of Tanika Gupta's adaptati…
Arcola theatre, London In 1980s Northern Ireland, an abusive father and the soldiers patrolling the streets morph into a common enemy to rage against, in Meghan Tyler's blackly comic tale Th…
Marylebone theatre, LondonThe lives of unhappy couples across two generations play out in overlapping timelines and geographies in Anna Ziegler's uneven drama When Abe's daughter asks him wh…
Take Me Somewhere tucks audiences up in bed, takes them to a last supper and delights with a paddling-pool comedy-tragedy A nurse puts a steadying hand on my back and guides me to bed. She …
London's Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-hat tour The sl…
Trafalgar theatre, LondonCo-starring Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville, this bleak three-hander by Samuel D Hunter leaves little unsaid Drugs, unemployment and a heavy air of purposelessne…
Soho theatre, LondonNina Bowers and Philip Arditti claw passionately at Henry V's colonialism and imperialism in their frequently funny and at times deliberately uncomfortable play When Engl…
Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says Every word …
Wyndham's theatre, LondonGatwa's Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel's William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams' sizzling new chamber play Forget William Shakespeare.…
This year's Edinburgh festival is full of creepy shows, from a jaw-clenching haunting to sci-fi terror. Our writer braves the darkness in Auld Reekie's fringe venues for a day of fear I am a…
The actor and writer has turned JM Barrie's story into the hedonistic nightclub musical Nvrlnd " but his talents are also showcased in a one-man thriller and a queer classic The room is hot,…
Upstairs at Assembly Roxy, EdinburghAbigail and Shaun Bengson meditate on family, faith and loss in story and song, featuring a revelatory depiction of degenerative hearing Music is a lifel…