Garrick theatre, London The horror-movie spoof is gleefully reanimated for the stage with even more jokes, superb set-pieces and barnstorming parody songs that stick a pitchfork into good ta…
Wyndham's, LondonAnne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham are excellent in an immaculately designed production of Simon Stephens' fable about love and physics This production has an impressive pe…
Royal Court, LondonSharon Duncan-Brewster and Jonjo O'Neill star in Chris Thorpe's play which offers a bleak view of the world as a desolate wasteland This apocalyptic piece by Chris Thorpe …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonReal-life couple Samantha Bond and Alexander Hanson star in this shrewd companion piece to The Truth, as a pair whose marriage is a labyrinth of deceit Floria…
Jimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne's classic 1956 play " but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberanceIn the summer of 1955 an adve…
Barbican, LondonA revival of the Japanese director's 1985 production, filled with cherry blossom, poetically explores the obsession for power " and its emptinessThis production by Yukio Nina…
Young Vic, LondonErin Doherty emerges as one of the year's great discoveries with a stunning performance as the young American desperate to rectify the world's injusticesTime changes things.…
Chichester Festival theatre Blanche McIntyre's mordantly comic revival of the 1973 trilogy spotlights the plays' sadnesses along with their orgiastic frenzies Related: Blanche McIntyre: the …
Cottesloe, LondonWith plays such as My Child and Contractions, Mike Bartlett has established a reputation as a theatrical miniaturist. Now he has written a big, epic, expansive play about cl…
Noël Coward theatre, London Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig give sparkling performances as a reforming MP and his constituency agent fighting through Labour's fluctuating fortunes James G…
Royal Court, LondonThe Chilean dramatist's new show about urban violence explores the tensions between two young anarchists and a veteran bomb-makerThe Royal Court's international programme,…
At 92, the visionary director refuses to slow down. He talks about how to silence audiences, the trouble with doing Shakespeare in French, the difference between Olivier and Gielgud, and why…
Olivier, LondonSimon Russell Beale is magnetic and unorthodox in an exceptional production that mixes the epic and the intimateAnother day, another Lear. But, although this is the third prod…
Minerva, ChichesterJonathan Munby's smart, lucid production features plenty of pomp and circumstance, and a superbly detailed performance by McKellenIan McKellen knows his way round Lear. He…
Barbican, LondonThe Swedish auteur's tales of actors are directed by Ivo van Hove at his most lucid and ostentatious, featuring fine performances and a pulsating tempest****/***'Can you be t…
The surefire playwright, director and actor is an inspired choice as the Young Vic's new artistic director " he has proved himself time and againThe appointment of Kwame Kwei-Armah as the ne…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonStephen Clark's puzzling drama about a man planning to either seduce or murder his dinner guest comes across as both morbid and exploitativeSex and death are the the…
Bush theatre, LondonThe Scottish coast is the setting for Sophie Wu's witty play about crustacean-loving Jim, his girlfriend and his kooky exLike many actors who turn to writing, Sophie Wu h…
Royal Shakespeare theatre/The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon This well-matched pair of tragedies in the RSC's Rome season give us strong images, unforgettable lines, probing psychology " and a lo…
O2 Arena, LondonThe statistics alone for this show are mind-boggling. It requires 620 tonnes of sand, involves a cast and crew of 400 and a total of 46 horses, donkeys and ponies. But specta…
Young Vic, London Performing 360-degree loops, pummelled by voices and piecing together her shattered speech, Stevenson goes bravely to the limit in this high-concept showJuliet Stevenson mu…
Viaduct, Halifax Blake Morrison transposes a corrupt, covetous 18th-century Paris to 1920s Yorkshire in a lively satire directed by and starring Barrie RutterNorthern Broadsides have made a …
Adelphi, LondonThere is much to enjoy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. The score is one of the composer's most seductive. Bob Crowley's design and Jack O'Brien's direction have a beauti…
Lyttelton, London In JT Rogers' engrossing play on a historic moment in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 1993, we are reminded that diplomacy requires duplicityJT Rogers is an Americ…
Hampstead theatre, LondonLindsay is magnetic as the celebrated cinematographer, who looks back over his life from Alzheimer's-affected old age in Terry Johnson's moving playJack Cardiff, the…