The Old Vic, London The suburban romp of envy and infidelity in two different homes comes bouncing back to life with a fizzing cast led by Roger AllamEarly in a career that reaches 92 plays …
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis prequel to the TV series has one joust after another, spectacular stagecraft and plenty of modern resonanceDuring the RSC’s 65 years, num…
Curve, LeicesterThere are electrifying – and also queasy – moments in this version of the classic 90s horror about the interrogation of a psychotic psychiatrist by an FBI rookieSoon afte…
In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live to…
Having cut his teeth in the holiday camps of the north, the comic bestrode 80s TV with his unthreatening brand of fun, being knighted by the pope in 2015• Jimmy Cricket, comedian known for…
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonChoreographers Carmen Igarza and Vanessa Guevara deserve to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished playThe fact tha…
Braboeuf Manor, GuildfordElegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic noteTwo Shakesp…
Lowry, SalfordThese lonely travellers overlap with Bowie’s Maj Tom, Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary or Spielberg’s Disclosure Day as they contemplate our place in the vastness of the v…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRobert Lindsay excels as Franklin D Roosevelt in Richard Nelson’s fascinating retelling of King George VI’s diplomatic visit in 1939The 2012 film Hyde Park on Hu…
Royal Court Downstairs, London Hunger and TB, as much as imperialism, are triggers for the assassination that precipitated the first world war in Rajiv Joseph’s tragicomic reimagining of t…
Apollo theatre, LondonStephen Mangan, Sarah Hadland, Ardal O’Hanlon and Janie Dee are seat-shakingly funny in this study of adulteryAlice and Michel must conceal their affair from possibly…
Orange Tree theatre, RichmondA stealing sculptor struggles to keep his visitors in the dark, while they lope and grope with the lights out, in Shaffer’s escalating slapstick showA regular …
Minerva theatre, ChichesterJohn Morton’s debut as a playwright is a finely crafted family drama with shades of Alan AyckbournAs a TV writer-director, John Morton specialises in the sort of…
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe detective and his sidekick return for a new case by Joel Horwood in an alfresco setting that playfully refers to nearby attractionsOutdoor drama i…
Chichester Festival theatreDavid Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply il…
Bristol Old VicThe Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations A classical actor who appeared in a recen…
King's Head theatre, LondonThe media tycoon comes up against union boss Brenda Dean in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's docudrama about the 80s Wapping dispute A teacher in Alan Bennett's The …
Theatr Clwyd, MoldDirector Kate Wasserberg emphasises the fantasy and supernatural elements of the poet's 'play for voices' in an entertaining and inclusive production As with Molière at th…
Tabard theatre, LondonThe actor shines as Hitler's favourite film director, who flirts and finagles her way through a fictional interview with an alcoholic, philandering journalist hiding hi…
Barn theatre, CirencesterSimon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve In a nervy theatre economy, with familiar material most l…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actor gives a skilful performance in the late playwright's 1995 meditation on love and literary posterity, directed by Jonathan Kent A fortnight after West End p…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon This adaptation of the beloved tale about an ogre looks beautiful but does not grow into a giant to rival the company's hit Roald Dahl musical …
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen " here are some of his very best With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed …
Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed's witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo A serial killer working through the alphabet (…
The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail's Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday? In March 1977, BBC One screened Spend, Spe…