Phoenix theatre, LondonThis musical about plane passengers diverted to Newfoundland on 11 September has plenty of heart but not enough biteThis musical by the Canadian married team of Irene …
Savoy theatre, LondonThis beloved revenge fantasy is as subtle as a sledgehammer but its advocacy of workplace equality makes it hard to dislikeYou can't escape the presence of Dolly Parton …
Donmar Warehouse, London This fascinating adaptation of a film about a Foley artist creating sound effects for a horror movie attacks its targets " artistic responsibility and male power str…
Old Vic, LondonThis vaudeville about the Great Depression showcases Miller's capacity to capture the state of a troubled nationThe impromptu Arthur Miller festival " initiated by the transfe…
Gillian Anderson and Lily James give fine performances but this version of the 1950 film might be a little too clever for its own goodThis is a show that reeks of chic. It stars Gillian Ande…
Crucible, SheffieldOwen Teale and Laura Elphinstone are superb, as a patriarch and his daughter, in Caroline Steinbeis's potent production The astonishing thing about Githa Sowerby's play is…
The actor shone as brightly in theatre as he did on film, helping to create modern classics from Billy Liar to Joe Egg, and playing the first Hamlet at the National's Southbank homeBecause h…
The London LibraryA cast of two do their best to breathe cohesion into a play full of sex, shrieks and floating eyes … but without a vampire in sightGiven that Bram Stoker researched his 1…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonDyer and Freeman excel as gunmen in The Dumb Waiter and Jamie Lloyd's staging of A Slight Ache, with John Heffernan and Gemma Whelan, is a revelationThe season o…
Orange Tree, RichmondThis unsettling portrait of a world and a relationship in crisis breezes through 80 scenes in 75 minutesRose Lewenstein's play triggers all kinds of associations. Since …
Finborough, LondonRichard Kalinoski's deeply touching play is about the fraught relationship between two escapees of the Armenian genocide living in 1920s MilwaukeeDrama can tackle big subje…
Hampstead theatre, LondonAn impeccable cast play out dual narratives about life on the US breadline in a tough drama that earns its poignancyFor the 100th premiere in his decade-long tenure …
Omnibus theatre, LondonA team of musicians create discord as the neglected playwright's short, sharp drama is given a stylish revival In 1962 there were six plays by Jean Anouilh running in …
Theatre 503, LondonVÃctor Sánchez RodrÃguez's play stylishly shows how confrontation with the colonial past can lead to self-discoveryLiving European writers are so rarely seen on t…
The Bunker, LondonThe Borderline theatre group's timely satire is well-intentioned, but its funfair setting reduces it to baggy vaudevilleThis is a prime example of what you might call theat…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonIn Okereke and Matt Jones's play, directed by Robby Graham, the story, song and movement are seamlessly integratedThe title suggests we're in for an evening advocati…
Dorfman, LondonCate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane add some heft to an uninspired exploration of modern sexual mores Advance reports of people fainting in the stalls suggested we might be in …
Gate theatre, London Jade Anouka and Jonjo O'Neill give first-rate performances reading the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert LowellSarah Ruhl's dramatisation of the letters exchan…
Charing Cross theatre, LondonKaisa Hammarlund impresses but Jeanine Tesori's musical has a trite message and gets an over-amplified productionJeanine Tesori, who wrote the scores for Carolin…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonKatori Hall's astonishing drama, based on the alleged visions of three schoolgirls, explores the power of faith and miracles as Rwanda's genocide loomsKatori H…
Park theatre, LondonTwo men compare fiercely different reckonings of the exodus of 7,500 Jews from Denmark in this gripping playAt the heart of Alexander Bodin Saphir's fascinating first pla…
Kiln, LondonIshy Din's new play, set in the aftermath of Margaret Thatcher's death, explores the impact of her legacy on two immigrantsIshy Din is a former Middlesbrough taxi-driver on a mis…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonLove has one too many aspects in Jonathan O'Boyle's spirited revival, which needs a librettist to trim the untidy narrative 'It is possible to have more than one e…
New Diorama, LondonOrson Welles's radio adaptation of the sci-fi classic is given a new spin on stage with references to Trump and BrexitThe story of the panic induced by Orson Welles's 1938…
Hampstead Downstairs, LondonDusty Hughes's play about two mischief-making seniors living in a retirement home is stoic about ageingGiven that nearly a fifth of the UK population is aged 65 o…