Bridge theatre, London Festive fun, ear-nibbling and high-wire antics infuse Nicholas Hytner's startling role-reversal production A promenade Julius Caesar was one of the Bridge's biggest hi…
White Bear, LondonSophie Treadwell's long-lost tale of Freudian fear gets its first outing with a cast who foster high tension in an intimate venue Sophie Treadwell is best known for her exp…
Barbican, LondonA pair of Lion King fans blunder into a highbrow drama in Declan Donnellan's gallant update of the class-collision comedy In Francis Beaumont's 1607 burlesque, a grocer and h…
Kiln, LondonSamuel Adamson's stimulating family saga revolves around A Doll's House and is inventively staged by Indhu Rubasingham The slam of the door at the end of A Doll's House was, said…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPrasanna Puwanarajah's edge-of-the-seat revival of Thomas Otway's 1682 tragedy looks like Blade Runner but deals in age-old themes of hypocrisy, corruption and e…
Old Red Lion, LondonEmma Hemingford's promising debut gets under the skin of a troubled relationship and refuses to take sides Emma Hemingford has written and co-stars in this promising debu…
Wyndhams, LondonKenneth Lonergan's tale of astronomy and midlife misery makes fine use of an A-list cast but never truly explodes into life With Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern head…
Lyttelton, LondonAllam shines as the tyrannical capitalist patriarch at the heart of Githa Sowerby's powerful story of a society in transition It has been exactly 25 years since a National T…
King's Head theatre, LondonKnown for her sharp tongue and love affairs, the eccentric Australian actor is celebrated in this entertaining one-woman show If the title is outrageous, so was th…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAugust Wilson's overheated story of an ex-con attempting to rebuild his life is buoyed by an energetic cast with meaty roles The parts are sometimes bigge…
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe classic snapshot of a community is given fresh life by a youthful production that stresses the story's harsher moments Thornton Wilder's 1938 hymn t…
Dorfman theatre, LondonElla Hickson's inventive thriller turns the audience into spies behind a glass wall, with fascinating but flawed results Created by Ella Hickson and sound designers Be…
Eden Court, InvernessJohn McGrath's 1973 play uses ceilidhs and hoedowns to tell the shocking tale of the exploitation of Scotland's natural resources John McGrath's 1973 play is a legend in…
Royal Court, LondonAnchuli Felicia King's Singapore-set drama brilliantly unpicks hypocrisy and the base values of the beauty business White Pearl is a little gem. It is the work of Anchuli …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonHattie Morahan and Seth Numrich help breathe new life into Williams' strange and clumsy southern gothic How best to describe Tennessee Williams' strange play?…
Park theatre, LondonChurchill, Blair and Thatcher drop in on Jonathan Maitland's vacillating hero, but the jokes fall flat in this topical comedy The problem with creating a play about Boris…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonSome of the humour in John Vanbrugh's 1697 sharp comedy about a tortured marriage doesn't endure, but there's much to admire in this important play Phillip Breen…
Young Vic, LondonRacial tensions simmer alongside those of class and family as Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke's American dream unravels There are two distinct impulses behind this remark…
Everyman, CheltenhamShakespeare, wizards and panto dames all play their part in an evening of autobiography that is a love letter to theatre Scratch a great actor and you often find a born c…
Nottingham PlayhouseShelagh Stephenson's Olivier-winning play about siblings reuniting in Yorkshire for a funeral mixes comedy and tragedy With Alex Kingston scheduled to play Dr Stockmann i…
Hampstead theatre, LondonBrenton's ambitious but muddled new drama follows a gifted young Syrian woman who attracts the attentions of an Oxford classicist, Euripides and MI5 Edward Hall ends…
Duke of York's, LondonDuncan Macmillan's deft but daring tweaks underline the majesty of this sexually charged study of faith and heartbreak This has been dubbed Ibsen's darkest and most com…
Olivier, LondonAndrea Levy's story of first-generation Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has been skilfully adapted and staged with hurtling energy This feels like a landmark in the Nat…
Coliseum, LondonEven Danielle de Niese's fine voice can't save ENO's out-of-sync commercial collaboration " no matter how many times they play The Impossible Dream Previous collaborations be…
Park theatre, LondonBen Alderton's bilious satire about the 2015 British general election is spasmodically entertaining but unsubtle We desperately need political satire, yet now seems an od…