Bush theatre, LondonTherapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like …
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Nkenna Akunna's monologue follows a young woman as she crashes her oldest friend's 25th birthday party At its core, Nkenna Akunna's monologue is a breaku…
National Theatre, LondonWith its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimaging of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir Period drama is given some sharp edges in this ada…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the second world war is shadowed by trauma but full of life and merriment We are in tha…
As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha " and why shouting at his kids is a great way to wr…
Acclaimed director Sam Gold will adapt the Shakespeare tragedy with new music from hitmaker and Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff West Side Story's Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper break…
Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi attended the annual theatre bash to catch Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Cara Delevingne roaming around backstage at the Royal Albert Hall ' N…
A string of seven awards for Sunset Boulevard was hardly radical, and many more daring theatrical successes went unrewarded The triumph of Jamie Lloyd's reinvented Sunset Boulevard at this y…
Almeida, LondonFive American friends gather to catch up in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play. It's a portrait of midlife malaise, but also a subtle meditation on post-Covid life A group of f…
The Studio, Edinburgh, and touringThe fifth of Rona Munro's James plays fails to develop an interesting premise about a hidden romance A dark stage is lapped by flickering candles. Here, fou…
Noël Coward; @sohoplace; Dorfman; LondonIan McKellen reigns supreme in Robert Icke's Henry IV mashup; Tyrell Williams's coming-of-age football drama is bang on target; and the Brontë s…
Gate Theatre, DublinSet in a 1918 maternity ward, the play offers moments of tenderness amid its commentary on political and social upheaval A pandemic exposes deep social injustices in Emma…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe revered Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny kick off this year's celebration of creative ageing, in a triple bill shared by Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke Malou Airau…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRichard's Nelson's elegiac monologue feels like Paul Jesson is live-reading a novel and results in a sense of stagnation Richard's Nelson's monologue, written for Pa…
The racist abuse directed at Francesca Amewudah-Rivers shows how casting decisions have been hijacked by the culture wars It's a young actor's worst nightmare: to land the role of a lifetime…
The Coronet theatre, LondonTension between the organic, human-made and the digital permeates Chieh-hua Hsieh's show as performer Ting-Ting Chao becomes an incredible vibrating energy force W…
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York SE Hinton's novel, which was adapted by Francis Ford Coppola for film, makes for a competent yet forgettable stage show If Broadway must, for the same risk…
Noel Coward theatre, LondonMutating from head criminal in a gothic thriller to slippery music hall entertainer, showman McKellen has centripetal force in Robert Icke's slick, modern dress pr…
Sadler's Wells, LondonWorks from veteran dancers Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo, Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke challenge perceptions of age, with performances full of spirit and maturity Wa…
Festival theatre studio, EdinburghCatriona Faint's witty performance as a pragmatist caught up in fanatical times is the heart of the latest historical drama from Rona Munro's James Plays se…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldLucie Lovatt's elaborate comedy exploring the housing crisis in rural Wales is provocative and conceptually ambitious yet still pleasingly entertaining Caryl and Meirion se…
Birmingham RepExpressive performances and arresting effects heighten this mother-son tragedy, primarily told through British Sign Language This drama opens with a lilting evocation of summer…
Her Tory parody videos shot her to fame online in 2020. As her skits go on stage, she talks about her path into comedy and what a Labour win would mean for her act These days, Rosie Holt fin…
Exclusive: lecturer finds 'striking similarities' between lines in Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works He was an actor, as well as the greatest dramatist of all time…
They squeeze them, throw them and tip buckets of them over each other. We meet the Taiwanese creator of a riveting experimental dance piece exploring desire that got rave reviews at Edinburg…