Park theatre, LondonThe president's war on illegal immigrants is taken to its logical conclusion " a heartening sign that dramatists are responding with something stronger than lampoonsHow d…
National, LondonThis is an odd evening: one in which Brian Cox gives us a dramatised reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel in a potted, two-hour version by Richard Nelson. It prompts two quest…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPlays about painters are fraught with difficulty. Either the hero preaches about art without practising it, or the Bohemian lifestyle supersedes the work. But John Lo…
Vaudeville, LondonEdward and Freddie Fox, as a father and son, are the star turn in this stylish revival of Wilde's send-up of a money-mad societyRailing against fashionable society's overpo…
Old Vic, London A row over intellectual property is at the heart of a fascinating and topical drama starring Ben Chaplin and Seána KerslakeJoe Penhall is very good at showing how a crisis…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThere are strong performances in Eric Whyman's swift production but it doesn't solve the problems of the playIn 1845, the American Charlotte Cus…
Dorfman, LondonNatasha Gordon's impressive debut about living between two cultures gains extra resonance in the light of the Windrush scandalThere's a key moment in Natasha Gordon's highly i…
Roger Michell's film Nothing Like a Dame brings four legends together " and evokes decades of brilliant performancesSometimes the best ideas are the simplest. The wheeze of bringing together…
Chichester festival theatrePlayed as a broad farce, Sean Foley's revival starring Rufus Hound ignores Noël Coward's faultless verbal stylingsRufus Hound, whose recent roles include Mr Toa…
Lyttelton, LondonJoe Hill-Gibbins gives Rodney Ackland's drama the full expressionist works in a production full of visual bravuraAt the curtain call for this revival of Rodney Ackland's 195…
Almeida, LondonElla Hickson's riveting play about a writer exploring the sexual revolution boasts a shining performance from Romola GaraiElla Hickson struck gold with her last play, Oil (201…
Piccadilly, LondonWill Young entertains in a sequined catsuit but this laborious version of the charming film is a step in the wrong directionI don't know if it's been spotted already, but B…
National, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsi…
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonThis shattering revival draws out the playwright's sexual candour and grim humour " and deserves a far longer runIt is the fashion these days to strip Ibsen …
Rose theatre, KingstonThe star plays Beatrice opposite John Hopkins as Benedick in a lively production set in a luxury Sicilian spa full of mafiosiThe Rose theatre marks its 10th anniversary…
Aldwych theatre, LondonPhyllida Lloyd's musical is a heady celebration of triumph over adversity, with an astonishing turn by Adrienne WarrenThis terrific show is billed as the "untold" stor…
Royal Court, LondonBonnar and Horrocks are excellent as parents attempting to replace their dead son with another straight from the box in Thomas Eccleshare's quirky dystopian dramaThomas Ec…
Duke of Yorks, LondonThis is a rich, funny, touching play about the opera house and the extraordinary marriage of its co-founders, John Christie and Audrey MildmayIt has taken two and a half…
Phoenix theatre, LondonKander and Ebb's show about crime and celebrity is faithfully recreated but is beginning to resemble an animated corpseIf this Kander and Ebb musical feels as if it ha…
Barbican, London There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl's briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospitalHow do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling nar…
Old Red Lion, LondonKenneth Emson's fascinating play has its characters speaking in jagged rhyme, but it rests on some questionable assumptions about its settingThis curious 70-minute play b…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJames Macdonald's revival offers clarity and hilarity, with Haydn Gwynne on brilliant form as an amorous widowThis is the kind of production one had almost given up h…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThere are good moments in Luke Fredericks's revival " but relocating the action to the 1920s is an unnecessary, frustrating fiddleLuke Fredericks prefaces this pro…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMary Pix's 1700 comedy about a rich widow's wayward social ascent becomes theatrical gold in Jo Davies's scintillating productionMary Pix is hardly a name to con…
Finborough, London Two white couples lock horns over their prejudices in Bruce Graham's powerful tale of racial dividesPlays about race often exude a liberal optimism. This pungent, abrasive…