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…
Finborough, LondonChé Walker's enigmatic drama, set in Los Angeles, is the theatrical equivalent of film noirWritten and directed by Ché Walker, this play brings a touch of unexpected glam…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonJane Horrocks, Rupert Graves and others shine in Patrick Marber and Jamie Lloyd's bold revivals of the playwright's shorter playsOne of the great pleasures of th…
Eventim Apollo, LondonThe father-and-daughter duo add self-deprecating cheer, alongside Jo Brand, to this feelgood fairytaleThe Dyers " Danny and Dani " and Jo Brand are the marquee names in…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonBased on interviews with residents of small-town Pennsylvania, Lynn Nottage's play vividly describes the betrayal and resentments of striking female factory workers i…
Almeida, London Joe Hill-Gibbins' stripped-back production delivers a forceful royal downfall, but leaves little space to explore the power plays behind itSimon Russell Beale was born to pla…
A gender-switch Company got Sondheim's blessing, Sam Mendes probed the doomed Lehman dynasty and Austen had a sparkling rewrite. But the year belonged to Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins fac…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA searing central performance flips the gender dynamics as Shakespeare's study of greed gets a ravishing revivalShakespeare's embittered satire, notoriously, sho…
Royal Court, LondonA deputy head's historical deeds trouble his retirement in this tense drama starring Alun Armstrong, Nicola Walker and Maggie SteedFor the second time in a week on stage, …
Orange Tree, RichmondSelina Cadell stages an enterprising production of Congreve's convoluted restoration comedySelina Cadell is on a one-woman mission to preserve Restoration comedy. Having…
Old Fire Station, OxfordA masterfully written generational clash lies at the heart of this timely story rich in insight, poignancy and optimism It is a quite a coup for this bustling arts ce…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonCharles Perrault meets Doctor Who in this lively production about a cockney martial-arts princess who travels through timePantomime survives by being infi…
Hampstead theatre, London There are vibrant performances in this new version of the Russian masterpiece, directed and written by Johnson Terry Johnson has directed his own new version of Che…
Royal Exchange, Manchester Raz Shaw's riotous revival of Mel Brooks's musical meisterwerk offers as much fun as you'll find on a stage this ChristmasMel Brooks's 2001 musical, like the movie…
Royal Court, London Ellie Kendrick livens up her inventive debut with astrophysics and ancient Greek myth " but it could use more concrete argumentEllie Kendrick's hour-long debut play celeb…
Vaudeville, LondonKit Harington and Johnny Flynn are good, if slightly mismatched, as the brothers in Sam Shepard's haunting playYou can see why Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn were drawn to …
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWith a cast of three playing multiple characters, this is an energetic telling of the cadaver-supplying criminalsYou learn something new all the time. I had alwa…
Finborough, LondonMairi Hawthorn really gets her teeth into the titular heroine in Aimée Stuart's 1940 play that creaks with age at timesCinderella stories are all the rage at Christmas. Th…
Print Room at the Coronet, London The novelist's 2005 drama opens up arguments about assisted death and the point at which life ceases to have meaningMany of the great American novelists " H…