Shakespeare's Globe filled Westminster Abbey with a free-range assortment of famous " and dangerous " characters for this moving celebration A brawl broke out in the nave of Westminster Abbe…
Finborough, LondonWritten during the votes for women campaign, St John Ervine's play receives its first London revival in 75 years 'The half-witted heroine has held the stage too long," said…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton Mike Poulton's new version lends fresh wit to the tragedy without diminishing its emotional intensity A great Manchester Guardian critic, CE Montague, once wr…
Old Vic, LondonIn an era of fake news and moral uncertainty, this fine production of Arthur Miller's play rings as true as ever Why the spate of Arthur Miller revivals? And why now? Watching…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke turns this spirited Broadway musical into a hymn to female resilience in her exhilarating farewell production at the Donmar Anne-Marie Duff's last appear…
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran's Olga is one of the many admirable performances in a production by Rebecca Frecknall that fails to deliver a full Chekhovian experience When actor Patsy Ferran a…
Everyman, Liverpool Nick Bagnall's ingenious revival reminds us that Sondheim's musical thriller is also a savagely political piece about injustice Forty years after its premiere, Stephen So…
Bridge Theatre, London Smith returns to the stage in triumph as she relives one woman's extraordinary experience in Nazi Germany Absent from the stage for 12 years, Maggie Smith returns in t…
Barbican, LondonPart installation, part prose-poem, this strangely beautiful piece takes its audience into other people's heads Enda Walsh's plays are often about people trapped inside four …
Royal Court, LondonAbhishek Majumdar's play launches a philosophical inquiry into non-violence and defying oppression A special virtue attaches to playwrights who take us into unfamiliar ter…
Park theatre, LondonAn English version of a play by golden boy of French theatre Alexis Michalik is too cavalier in its depiction of prison life Alexis Michalik is the man of the moment. His…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonIn his funny and perceptive two-hander, Godber and his wife play a quarrelsome couple on a tandem trip to Europe Although it dominates our lives, Brexit has so far m…
Lyttelton, LondonWith a boosted cast of 18, Lyndsey Turner's revival of Caryl Churchill's classic sometimes feels like three separate plays What started as an economic necessity in 1982 soon…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonJohn Kani beautifully captures the complex divides of race, class and politics in a remarkable and moving new play How do you put a nation's history on stage? In…
Arcola, LondonThis lively musical take on the 2006 film satirising child beauty pageants is likable but lacks bite I missed the 2006 film that is the source for this musical with songs by Wi…
Finborough, LondonBart and Alun Owen's 1964 musical about a Liverpudlian dockside prostitute and her sailor beau gets a foot-stamping first professional revival The working-class British mus…
Barbican, LondonMurphy has an astonishing athleticism playing both man and crow in an adaptation of Max Porter's story of grief Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh have teamed up to bring Max Port…
Theatre 503, LondonRoss Willis's surreal debut is driven by a concern for vulnerable children, but will be remembered for its two remarkable actors Ross Willis's debut play is subtitled "som…
Birmingham RepThis slapstick look at the classic play about Cyrano the long-nosed poet has been given a witty, kaleidoscopic staging It is not hard to see why Alexis Michalik's play has cloc…
Dorfman, LondonFour sex offenders are confronted by one of their victims in Bruce Norris's viscerally acted drama about punishment Bruce Norris likes to live dangerously. In Clybourne Park, …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonPenelope Wilton gives a fine turn as an understated heroine in this revival of Hare's play about a one-time pupil of Matisse David Hare's 1986 play was origin…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Gender-swapped roles turn this courtship power game into a strange puzzle " although the trick plays dividends with its gleeful subplots You c…
Harold Pinter Theatre, LondonTom Hiddleston is the big draw and is superb in conveying unhealed emotional wounds After a brilliant season of Pinter's short plays we now get his full-length s…
Trafalgar Studios, London When positive discrimination appears to rob a boy of his college place, the racial pieties of America's left are exposed in Joshua Harmon's drama Joshua Harmon has …
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonThe Gershwins' upbeat music sits uneasily with a cheerily absurd script in this revival of George S Kaufman's comedy Satire, George S Kaufman said, is what c…