Available onlineEffectively filmed for streaming audiences in a sharply told adaptation, this adventure stars Luke Barton as the bumptious master detective "If this is to be our final advent…
Soho theatre, LondonLyons raises her personal demons so she can publicly refuse to play by their rules in this complex comedy-horror crossover The eye-popping final sequence of Elf Lyons's R…
York Theatre RoyalDespite some strong performances, this production is undone by flip-flopping between the serious and the silly Guy Fawkes is not an obvious subject for a comedy " he's more…
The standup and author on American-British rants, why Saturday Night Live wouldn't work in the UK and the joy of offending Winnebago owners Your current show is called Shot from Cannons. Wha…
Soho theatre, LondonSudha Bhuchar's monologue, drawing on chats with her children, has much likable detail but slightly less focus than you'd wish for Meet Sudha Bhuchar. She's a middle-clas…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonChoreographers Mthuthuzeli November, Stina Quagebeur and Dickson Mbi jolt ballet's habitual moves with this fresh and convincing triple bill It's th…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonFlorentina Holzinger's show has inspired audience walkouts but others stay and cheer at its bloody-minded audacity Premiered in Vienna in 2019, Florentina Holzin…
Watermill theatre, NewburyMichael Morpurgo's novel about a boy's Arthurian adventure is inventively brought to life in an inclusive production Michael Morpurgo's enchanting 2002 take on Arth…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRona Munro's engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots The Mary of the title refers t…
A delayed announcement about the next three years of support has left the arts world in limbo " but also with time to fight and rethink In the turmoil of the new government's stock-taking ef…
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Alan Ayckbourn's 87th play, live performance from Ukraine and lost showtunes The Bridge theatre's big Christmas show from 2021, based on Philip…
Hayes Theatre, SydneyThis new take on the famously earnest biblical musical spends so much time apologising for its religious elements, it falls flat Get our weekend culture and lifestyle em…
Milton Keynes theatreWhile not quite reaching previously attained heights of absurdity, the comic still pulls off a successful stream of nonsense It's been a decade of tumultuous change sinc…
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonSet in the New Mexico desert, David Farr's unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human essence …
Sadler's Wells, LondonA krumping Cheshire cat enlivens this well-danced adaptation of Lewis Carroll's coming-of-age story, but Alice's deeper life remains unexplored Lewis Carroll's Alice ha…
Almeida, London; Bristol Old Vic; Soho Place, LondonKatie Brayben nails the title role as Tammy Faye in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new …
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterThere are some scares, but Jack Thorne's adaptation of the Swedish vampire novel focuses more on the compelling bond between two troubled teens Though it ha…
Crucible, SheffieldSteve Waters's newly revived and updated companion pieces about global heating have lost none of their urgency Steve Waters's double bill about global heating, The Conting…
Sadler's Wells, LondonImbuing the balletic grace of her dancer's movements with tension and anxiety, Doherty asks a refreshing yet unsettling question: what's the point of dance? An awful l…
Dismiss their works at your peril. Strip the barnacles of stale tradition off the Victorian duos's light operettas and their seditious glory still shines When I was a teenager in the 1970…
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonA distressed woman unravels after her father's suicide in a play that strikes the wrong balance between humour and sorrow Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order: …
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve 'Just a very long-w…
Almeida, London Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons " so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears…
They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe's Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever When Farah Karim-…
A new stage production tells the stories of women and their bodily autonomy, or lack thereof, as part of the fight to reverse the supreme court decision to restrict abortion Theirs was a sec…