Battersea Arts Centre, LondonHumour and rage intertwine in Back to Back theatre company's playful debate of ethics, language and philosophy The unjust treatment of people with learning dis…
Charing Cross theatre, LondonTennessee Williams' script about a dying widow dictating her memoirs is dragged into the modern day as characters fidget with their phones on a sparse set Some p…
Soho theatre, LondonA different Mrs Perón gets the mega-musical treatment in Sh!t Theatre's hilarious, sinister comedy about the ethics of populism and the heartbreak of loss As in: Evita…
Shipwright, DeptfordExquisitely staged on the banks of the Thames, this ambitious and inquisitive production uses its natural surroundings to remind us of everything we stand to lose Sneak a…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonYouTube philosopher Abigail Thorn moves offline and on to the stage with an ambitious exploration of identities and the performance of gender Using the intelligent…
The Globe theatre sparked outrage when it announced its plans to stage a non-binary Joan of Arc. The play's writer explains why the French warrior would have approved 'I'm always hungry for …
The company behind The Actress has dug into 17th-century archives to bring to life two pioneering women of the stage On 8 December 1660, crowds gathered on Vere Street, off Oxford Street in …
The writer-director's new Edinburgh fringe show switches between the 18th-century Haitian revolution and a haunted modern London If a zombie uprising were to take place tomorrow, Emily Aboud…
Sonali Bhattacharyya's Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. 'South Asian artists have always been here " but now it's our time,' she says For much …
Churchill War Rooms, LondonPoor storytelling and a clunky app-based interface mean that this time-travel adventure may well be the audience's darkest hour Chaotic and disappointing, this app…
The Ten Percent star's solo show, which is returning to London's West End, was inspired by his conversations with older gay men as a volunteer for Switchboard An hour before he stepped on st…
Royal Court, LondonOne play reveals another in a tangled web that pits the Home Office against two Guardian blind-daters Lift up the cover of the playtext for That Is Not Who I Am by Dave Da…
Old Vic theatre, LondonA stylish rework of the August Wilson character-study sees a standout performance from Wil Johnson as the put-upon head of the titular cab station Within a run-down st…
King's Head theatre, LondonA mixture of ghoulish horror and atmospheric history, Mark Ravenhill's play vibrates with frights and fury The jump scares are perfectly placed in Mark Ravenhill's…
New Diorama, LondonDeafinitely Theatre's evocative and tender show was inspired by real stories of abuse against deaf women and non-binary people In British Sign Language, the sign for a wit…
Finborough, LondonHunger and disease stalk Russia in the aftermath of conflict in this play based on a story by Andrey Platonov This is a glum, plodding production depicting a grim, hard-hea…
Soho theatre, LondonMelissa Johns articulates how she learned to navigate an ableist world as a woman with one and a half arms Bullies sneak in at the sidelines of this story, but Melissa Jo…
Two friends delighted half a million kids with a tiny production in a cardboard box. Now they're sizing up the much-loved bulbous bear for the Little Angel theatre 'We made nearly half a mil…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonLess a tense examination of a failing republic, or even of women in power, there is little electricity or danger here The Globe's audience serve as the easily sway…
Pioneering female entertainers, including a 1930s clown and a Wall of Death stunt rider, are celebrated in a show by a fearless group of performers Female performers in British variety acts …
After seeing how moved gay men were by The Inheritance, the playwright wanted to write something that would strike a chord with women " so came up with The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs A grou…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonSecrets bite and speeches overlap as we realise musician Max has been grooming Alice since she was 16 The tension is like a tidal wave in Flora Wilson Brown's dark…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonMemes and the personal drama of worn-out celebrity take centre stage as an energetic trio of C-listers unite to fight the climate crisis A wealth of ideas have be…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them Attempting to combine absurdist farce, genuine traged…
Orange Tree theatre, RichmondFranz Xaver Kroetz's play is a sharp exploration of the way finances wriggle their way into the existing rifts of everyday life What quiet, splintering performan…