Wilton's Music Hall, LondonGraham and eight previously unproduced writers present stories that capture the oddity and excess of the capital Inspired by Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz, Jame…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Finty Williams excels in the role first played by her mother, Judi Dench, in Hugh Whitemore's slow-burning spy storyThis slow-burning play by Hugh Whitemore …
Rose theatre, KingstonKeith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear's two plays following the life of William HogarthThere is a palpable irony to the umbrella t…
Harold Pinter theatre, London Antony Sher, David Suchet and Hayley Squires are among the cast for a compelling set of works by the master playwrightJamie Lloyd has had the bold, bright idea …
Olivier, London Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusionThis is the third production of Shakespeare's tragedy on the Olivier sta…
Birmingham RepCharles Lawson is on fine form as a retired John Rebus but the novelist's Edinburgh underworld is missingYou can see the temptation to bring Ian Rankin's rumpled sleuth John Re…
Park theatre, LondonKaren Archer gives a fine performance as a woman experiencing cognitive difficulties in Sharr White's playHow do you dramatise dementia? Not easily. But Sharr White, in a…
Two productions in Manchester rework five Shakespeare plays so as to put his female characters centre stageFemale writers and directors, impatient with male-dominated Shakespeare, are offeri…
The Swan, Stratford-on-AvonThis striking new take on Molière by the writers behind Citizen Khan sends up religious phoniness and secular pretensionThese days, every classic play seems to be…
Old Vic, LondonThis hip-hop-infused story of Sylvia Pankhurst's struggle and socialism has the audience on its feet in acclamation If you create a musical about (British) history with a pred…
Tara theatre, LondonA survivor of the 1988 uprising meets the ex-reporter to whom he leaked information " for which action he was jailed " in this vital, fascinating dramaPlays in which two …
Theatre Royal, Stratford East, LondonAnya Chalotra is compelling as a 16-year-old who leads the women in her Indian village to stand up to Art Malik's sadistic, tyrannical cop Nadia Fall beg…
NST City, SouthamptonAristophanes' neglected classic The Assemblymen, which proposes economic and sexual communism " is given an uneven musical updateNo fewer than seven female writers are c…
Events at Westminster Abbey and National Theatre honour RSC founder who died last yearExactly one year to the day after his death, Peter Hall has been given a double-headed, star-studded tri…
Kiln theatre, London Alexis Zegerman's comedy exposes middle-class hypocrisy as couples battle to get their children into the top local primaryProtesters gathered outside this handsomely ren…
Finborough, London This all-female revival of Harrison's 1992 piece exploring scientific morality is expressively directed and performed'Duality reigns," says the German-Jewish chemist Fritz…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonSome of the heartbreak is lost but this adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel, in which a murder victim watches events from the afterlife, is a mesmerising specta…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe Broadway cast of Stephen Karam's award-winning play shine, but horror movie tropes detract from real-life fearsStephen Karam describes his play, which arrives fr…
Nottingham PlayhouseA strong score, fresh choreography and a spirited cast save Fellini-inspired musical from feeling irredeemably datedI sometimes worry that our regional theatres are over-…
Almeida, LondonClare Barron lifts the curtain on American unease in a show packed with energy, sly satire and first-rate performancesClare Barron's prize-winning American play is the theatri…
Indhu Rubasingham has overseen a rebrand for the north London theatre but her exciting programme doesn't suggest a radical break from its rich history. So why the new moniker?What's in a nam…
She has made every theatre trip an adventure into the unknown, with a relentless urge to experiment that hasn't abated over almost 40 playsCaryl Churchill, who will be 80 on 3 September, was…
Gender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen's closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love More autumn picks: Film | …
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA dazzling Jude Owusu is haunted by the dead as the RSC revives Marlowe's story of violence, vengeance and vanityMichael Boyd, in his return to the RSC, brings t…
Minerva, Chichester History, morality and quantum mechanics collide in Michael Blakemore's storming revival of a modern classicMore information has come to light, since Michael Frayn's play …