Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello by Benedict Nightingale (****)

Tennessee Williams's play is awfully wordy, yet the true, touching moments more than compensate

Robin Williams at New York's Town Hall by James Bone (***)

Abi Titmuss hits the stage in Macbeth by Ed Caesar

Abi Titmuss has put her clothes back on to play Lady Macbeth. And it looks like the lads' mag favourite really can act

The odd friendship of Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald by Bonnie Greer

Monroe helped to kickstart Fitzgerald's career, but these Fifties icons shared more than a love of jazz

Dr Frank-N-Furter requests that you stay silent by Anna Burnside

The Rocky Horror Show has been stripped back. 'It's no panto - we want people to listen,' says its star David Bedella

Alfred Molina - a Spaniard in the works by Alan Franks

British-born of Spanish and Italian stock, the actor has never felt at home in England. Why, then, is he so good in English roles?

The Habit of Art at the Lyttleton, SE1 by Benedict Nightingale (***)

Will this black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof be lucky in London? by Lucy Powell

An all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sold out on Broadway. Can it find the same success in the West End?

Annie Get Your Gun at the Young Vic, SE1 by Dominic Maxwell (***)

Richard Jones's sharp-shooter is a little off target, but Annie Get Your Gun - starring Jane Horrocks - is still great fun

My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph, Scarborough - Review by Jeremy Kingston (****)

Ayckbourn himself directs with intense precision.

Raoul - Review by Sam Marlowe (***)

James Thiérrée blends clowning, acrobatics and dance to tell fluid stories that are disorientating and delightful

Life is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse, London by Dominic Maxwell (****)

Dominic West impresses throughout in this unusual and hugely appealing display of classical acting with a twinkle in its eye

Cape Town Opera brings Porgy and Bess to Europe by Neil Fisher

The only opera company in South Africa is on the road to Britain with a Porgy and Bess set in the depths of apartheid

The Power of Yes at the Lyttelton, SE1 - Review by Benedict Nightingale (***)

Dame Maggie Smith: A bad case of stage fright by Tim Teeman

Double Oscar winner and titan of the stage, Dame Maggie Smith says that her fight with cancer may end her theatre career

Inherit the Wind, at the Old Vic, SE1 by Benedict Nightingale (****)

Mother Courage at the Olivier, SE1 by Benedict Nightingale (***)

This depiction of war's horrors and perverse magnetism is brought to a raucous climax by Fiona Shaw's Mother Courage

An Inspector Calls at the Novello, London WC2 by Sam Marlowe (****)

More than 15 years after its first appearance at the National, Stephen Daldry's reinvention of Priestley is still heart-thumpingly thrilling

Breakfast at Tiffany's, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, W1 - Review by Benedict Nightingale (**)

Anna Friel has her moments but she doesn't have the mercurial, emotionally dangerous quality that Holly Golightly needs

A Steady Rain at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York by Matt Wolf (***)

The play's above-the-title wattage has pulled in the audiences but fans of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman will be disappointed

Trevor Nunn on Inherit the Wind by Benedict Nightingale

Judgment Day, at the Almeida, London N1 - Review by Benedict Nightingale

Here's a play that leaves you formulating a domino theory of catastrophe and evil.

Dame Edna Everage returns to Britain by Dominic Maxwell

Flags are out for Barry Humphries as his alter ego prepares to revive her Last Night of the Poms show

Edinburgh arts boss Jonathan Mills claims UK cultural diet is pap by Ben Hoyle

The trivialisation of British life has left millions of people subsisting on a cultural diet of "white bread without the crusts", according to one of the country's most influential arts lead…

Four stars for A Streetcar Named Desire by Benedict Nightingale

Both Glenn Close and Jessica Lange recently played the role in London, but neither had the charisma of Weisz.