Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonLewis plays an architect in love with a goat in Edward Albee's tragedy about uncontrollable sexuality " with Sophie Okonedo equally riveting as his wifeAs we k…
Orange Tree, Richmond Servants and employers swap places with a great deal of amorous confusion in a sparkling revival of Marivaux's classicIn the past, we've seen Marivaux's classic comedy …
Dorfman, London The audience become judge and jury in Nina Raine's intelligent play about a rape case full of opposing narratives, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben ChaplinAside from John…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonSheena Easton brings poise and star quality to an energetic revival that suffers from its bloodless and out of date source materialIf you like musicals staged…
Salisbury PlayhouseA rural Wiltshire community during the first world war is depicted with quiet poetry in Barney Norris's play on childhood friendship and adult expectationBarney Norris is …
From West Side Story to Sweeney Todd, here are nine of my favourite musical moments. There's one space left " for a classic selected by youAll great musicals need a moment of ecstasy that de…
Southwark Playhouse, London This show about 42nd Street in the 1980s is imaginatively staged with the ever-magnificent Sharon D Clarke but it's a tough sellThe low-life musical has a long hi…
Wyndhams theatre, LondonTennant brings a beguiling, fleet-footed charm to Molière's libertine, reinvented as DJ in Patrick Marber's subversive updateDavid Tennant stars as the rutting rake …
Arts theatre, LondonHislop and Nick Newman's play explores the extraordinary real-life story of how a Punch-style publication was set up by troops during the first world warIan Hislop and Ni…
Storey, who has died at the age of 83, had a natural understanding of theatre and strived to resolve the tensions of his life through his playsDavid Storey, who has died aged 83, was a drama…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJosette Simon seems born to play Cleopatra, but the dissection of tyranny in Julius Caesar makes it the thrilling highlight of this Roman double…
Royal Court, LondonSimon McBurney's adaptation of the Hollywood tycoon's memoir is technically brilliant and often breathtaking but it adds little to his familiar storyRobert Evans's Hollywo…
Dominion, LondonChristopher Wheeldon's superb show is a riot of colour and movement, with irresistible dance routines and a wealth of Gerhswin classicsA magical transformation has taken plac…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Eve Best and Helen George star in a production that merges the playwright's Love in Idleness with its former iteration, Less Than KindBetween August and Dece…
To mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth we're choosing our favourite versions of his plays. Here's a handful of the finest Hamlets' 45 Hamlets for Shakespeare's 450th birthday "…
Jermyn Street theatre, London Funny things happen on the way to Hades in this version of Aristophanes' civic-minded comedy about the function of artIt is disconcerting to find the creator ha…
With its male rivalry and edgy dialogue about London buses, Pinter's 1950s novel The Dwarfs holds the key to all his later plays, says Michael BillingtonApart from their public prominence an…
Hampstead theatre, LondonSara Kestelman excels as an uncliched Jewish matriarch in Ryan Craig's punchily acted new play about an East End family firmIf plays survive by creating meaty roles …
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's 1983 musical has been revived once more. The show struck an important, rarely acknowledged blow for equalityWhen it opened in New York in 1983, La Cage au…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAdults play confused adolescents in Matthew Whittet's playground drama, adding an extra layer of hope and sadness to their characters Related: Seventeen going on 70:…
Rose theatre, KingstonApril De Angelis's inventive and fluid five-and-a-half-hour production spans 50 years in its characters' lives, and makes clear the books' feminist messageI am normally…
Garrick theatre, London The audience is clobbered into submission by an anything-for-a-laugh Molière adaptation that casts Lee Mack " in his theatre debut " as the sane oneI guess, since we…
National Theatre, London Britannia is shown to be fractious and divided in this bold but fragmented piece " built from interviews with UK voters " that does not tell us anything newTom Stopp…
It's wrong to characterise 1930s theatre as escapist or frivolous. In Europe and America, many plays were alerting audiences to the dangers of fascism " led by the German fugitive Bertolt Br…
Harold Pinter theatre, London Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill are both superb as they trade insults and toy vindictively with their guests in a first-rate revival of an astonishing playThis…