Vinay Patel's ambitious, highly personal new play, a young couple leave behind from India in search of a better life'Pick me and I will make us … the greatest adventure you could ever have…
Events at Westminster Abbey and National Theatre honour RSC founder who died last yearExactly one year to the day after his death, Peter Hall has been given a double-headed, star-studded tri…
Sandi Toksvig is right: TV comedy can be brutal for women. Luckily, there's a simple solutionWhen Sandi Toksvig says women are cut out of panel shows, she really isn't exaggerating. I once w…
Norwich Theatre RoyalAudiences experience a taste of how the 1% travel " and eat " in Curious Directive's ambitious showIt took years of experimenting for the Wright brothers to get airborne…
Kiln theatre, London Alexis Zegerman's comedy exposes middle-class hypocrisy as couples battle to get their children into the top local primaryProtesters gathered outside this handsomely ren…
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Queen's theatre, HornchurchAtiha Sen Gupta creates a companion piece for Leigh's story while a revival proves the origi…
Royal Shakespeare Company to assemble consciously diverse cast for season of three playsThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to choose actors for its 2019 summer season who reflect the nation in…
Finborough, London This all-female revival of Harrison's 1992 piece exploring scientific morality is expressively directed and performed'Duality reigns," says the German-Jewish chemist Fritz…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis profound and beautiful study of surrealist Leonora Carrington, once the partner of Max Ernst, ingeniously contrasts scenes from her early and late careerThe…
Bristol's Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m faceliftOne of the oldest theatres in Europe, Bristol Old Vic, is finally to have a proper fro…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonSome of the heartbreak is lost but this adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel, in which a murder victim watches events from the afterlife, is a mesmerising specta…
York Theatre RoyalA stunning cast and unshowy direction do full justice to Bennett's far-reaching play imagining a meeting between Auden and BrittenIt's 1972. To the Oxford college rooms of …
Sadler's Wells, LondonA French hip-hop dance show is elegant and intellectually robust but it never really gets going"This is hip-hop dance theatre at its most curious," the programme announ…
Almeida; Regent's Park Open Air theatre; the Scoop, LondonAdults act up as children in Clare Barron's acute new study of adolescence. And a man-eating plant, played by a drag queen, feels at…
Twitter abuse proves rich source of material for new standup showIf there's one thing even the most stupid and bigoted of internet trolls may soon learn, it's to be wary of getting into an a…
The English dramatist on juggling pregnancy with the opening of two new plays, the joys of YouTube, and how Only Fools and Horses helped her to find loveBorn in west London to actor parents,…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonAs part of the theatre's Phoenix season, Amit Lahav brings his production back to where a fire halted their run and damaged the buildingIn 2015 a fire swallowed …
Hammersmith Apollo, London The 31-year-old breathes new life into well-worn observational comedy in a masterful show that scorns pretensionKevin Bridges is in his 30s now, a time when fear o…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe Broadway cast of Stephen Karam's award-winning play shine, but horror movie tropes detract from real-life fearsStephen Karam describes his play, which arrives fr…
Tramway, Glasgow The thwarted lover story, retold in dazzling Glaswegian Scots, has raucous spirit and flamboyant hairpieces but its verbal flourishes are lost in acoustic fogEdwin Morgan's …
Sadler's Wells, London Rigal's performers explore street vernaculars and the shamanic power of music in this flawed if clever pieceSix fresh young dancers look as if they've bought the whole…
Nottingham PlayhouseA strong score, fresh choreography and a spirited cast save Fellini-inspired musical from feeling irredeemably datedI sometimes worry that our regional theatres are over-…
Theatre Royal, Bath With a starry cast that includes Elizabeth McGovern and Ralf Little, this revival of Yasmina Reza's menace-filled comedy emphasises the laughs but loses the play's savage…
Why was Ben Okri so keen to adapt L'Étranger, Albert Camus's dark novel about the killing of an Arab, for the stage? He talks about his battle with the French writer's daughter, his days…
Michael Patrick's youth was blighted by a bizarre testicular condition and the death of his father. They provided the perfect material for his moving and wincingly funny one-man showWhen Mic…