Everyman, Liverpool No two performances take the same order as Joe Ward Munrow's scenes of industrial conflict range across history " led by a machine's chance decrees A play about machines …
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTensions rise as rain stops play in the Women's Cricket World Cup between India and England Stepping up to bat in this show of two very different innings are the e…
The standup comedian shares what makes her laugh online, including Gino D'Acampo getting mad, the Lonely Island and a scared man paragliding I'm Urooj Ashfaq and I'm a standup comedian. The …
Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity As with Appropriate, another outstanding…
Stage@TheDock, HullJodie and Mike are getting married with all the familiar trimmings " wayward stag night, last-night jitters, irritating in-laws " but Maureen Lennon calls out the hidden m…
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York The Oscar nominee is a captivating emotional anchor in this drama about a mother coping with her child's health problems Alex, the two-year-old child at t…
The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless " even ex…
'At the first one, we had DJs in the foyer and people were jumping in to battle with the dancers. We took out seats to make more standing room and the noise was crazy' I was at the Queen Eli…
The huge success of her memoir has turbocharged the Scottish comedian's career, with midlife, Catholicism and marriage in her withering sights Cynicism is now and then expressed about the ph…
He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success " and has just been made president of the UK's leading drama school This is the first …
It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites " and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone's ready to face the musi…
A decade after her autistic son Connor Sparrowhawk died in a specialist NHS facility, Sara Ryan's campaign to reveal the truth about what happened is coming to the stage. In a bare rehearsal…
He's the world's hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite … T…
Stone Nest, LondonDante or Die's intriguing but underdeveloped story is based on the case of two men, each convicted of a homophobic murder, who became the first same-sex couple to marry in …
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonTalk of street parties, barbecues and book clubs gives way to politics in this work about authoritarianism, colonialism and how history gets rewritten The histor…
Finborough theatre, LondonChanneling the Gamergate saga and the world of the online pickup artist, Van Badham's disturbingly timely play offers dark laughs and rewarding nuance Jake Newhouse…
Soho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men's public toilet, Sam Grabiner's award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut…
Lyttelton; Almeida; Royal Court Upstairs, LondonAll of London life doesn't quite materialise in an epic take on Dickens with music by PJ Harvey; a university reunion digs deep at the Almeida…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeA first-rate cast delight in controlled chaos of the highest order in Conrad Nelson's seamless revival of Richard Bean's hit play A couple on the stairs behind m…
Queen Elizabeth Hall; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonShechter's young dancers thrill in his hellish vision of England. Elsewhere, emerging choreographers from Brno to Birmingham s…
At the world's biggest barrel of laughs, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Rose Matafeo rub shoulders with homegrown stars-in-the-making. Our writer has the time of his life What's the biggest …
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmily Burns' modern-day romcom, set on a Pacific island retreat, ramps up the silliness and makes accessible the text's cloud-parting power and …
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonHofesh Shechter's young company are an international bunch but their slo-mo curves and sudden shocks deliver some startling home truths about the UK There's an ir…
Kiln theatre, LondonSophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life Music, says Hattie, …
Nottingham PlayhouseThree unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government's Prevent strategy The three GCSE students in Sonali Bhatt…