Young Vic, London With tremendous performances from Daniel Kaluuya, David Haig and Luke Norris, Penhall's drama packs even more of a punch 16 years after its debutJunior doctors are in the n…
Tricycle theatre, LondonThe arguments about global economics in Akhtar's follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning Disgraced are so dramatic that it's a shame when the plot kicks inOscar Wilde's Mis…
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, LondonAlan Ayckbourn's vintage comedy about adultery and male bullying is shockingly up to dateTheatrical snobs still patronise Alan Ayckbourn. Alan Strachan's clev…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonNothing is out of bounds in Baddiel's new standup, which exposes his father's dementia and his mother's hyperactive sex life to the same affectionate scrutiny…
Orange Tree, RichmondThe performances are full of Shavian vitality in this invigorating modern-day revival mocking the disparity between high ideals and personal practice George Bernard Shaw…
Donmar Warehouse, London David Leveaux's fine revival featuring an expertly balanced cast shows this 1997 play is much more than the product of its timeDoes it still resonate? That is the ob…
Japanese theatre director who harmonised the traditions of east and west in his productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen and EuripidesYukio Ninagawa, who has died aged 80, was a great Japanese thea…
Part two of the BBC's Wars of the Roses series was a visual treat led by a brooding Benedict Cumberbatch, but poignancy was among the script's many casualtiesLast week's opening episode of t…
Duke of York's, London The Game of Thrones actor gives us a sense of the scholar's flailing despair but Jamie Lloyd's excessive version of the tragedy comes with a trite messageChristopher M…
London PalladiumA strong cast led by the former Pussycat Doll bring impressive verve to the song and dance spectacular, but the question remains whether the jukebox musical is Andrew Lloyd W…
Arts Educational, LondonA 1920 private adoption home farms poor children out to rich couples in this fluent production by Kate Sason and a talented student castAs we know from Nell Gwynn and…
In Cyprus Avenue, I watched aghast as a Protestant attacked his own baby. But I left with a new understanding of sectarianism. So why did the litany of horrors in Sarah Kane's Cleansed just …
Young Vic, LondonArthur Miller's 1955 Brooklyn drama is stripped right back to showcase rich behavioural accuracy and high-quality performances' Monroe and Miller's sensational year " in pic…
Jury's Inn, BrightonPatrick Sandford's candid play about the abuse he suffered as a nine-year-old at the hands of a teacher shines much needed light on dark placesThe Brighton festival has s…
Brighton festivalThis disturbing piece of immersive theatre shines a light on the morality of police surveillance as audience members get to play undercover agentsAt what point, if any, is p…
Lyttelton, LondonSuhayla El-Bushra brings Nikolai Erdman's 1928 social comedy into the modern day, but leaves its eccentricity and subversion behindThe National Theatre these days seems susp…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSet in a post-Brexit dystopia, Melly Still's production is odd, excessive and over-stuffed with ideas but it's unafraid of emotion and boasts fi…
Arcola, LondonMay Sumbwanyambe's promising play, set in 1998, pits a white farm-owning family against a government agent sent to acquire their landThe Papatango new writing prize has uncover…
The Henry VI plays are condensed into two servings of power battles, sex and witchcraft with fine performances from Hugh Bonneville and Sophie OkonedoShakespeare's early histories used to be…
Hampstead theatre, LondonWhy did TE Lawrence turn his back on fame after assisting the Arab uprising? Brenton's solidly acted play explores the mystery of a troubled figureThe centenary of t…
Chichester festival theatreBonneville precisely captures the recklessness and egotism of Dr Stockmann in a vigorous production of Ibsen's frighteningly topical playThis is the fifth major re…
Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud, GuildfordPrivate passion coincides with the public chaos of 1947 in this tale of an affair featuring a first-rate castHoward Brenton's Drawing the Line dramatised…
Ibsen was sane, progressive and formal. Strindberg was neurotic, reactionary and fragmented. The two were arch enemies - but together they laid the foundations for modern drama, says Michael…
Finborough, LondonAthena Stevens' drama about a girl with cerebral palsy and a teacher overstates the message that disability is no bar to ambition, but it's laudable propagandaThis play cha…
The Space, LondonGotthold Ephraim Lessing's European drama, given an admirable revival at this fringe theatre, is an assured attack on unfettered princely powerThis 1772 tragedy by Gotthold …