Citizens, GlasgowRona Munro's sharply observed portrait of three generations of women caught up in Belfast's violenceA searchlight strafes the auditorium. A girl in a slip trembles out of da…
New drama Mad As Hell explores how actor Peter Finch's real-life anger over snobbery and prejudice fuelled his Oscar-winning performance in the 1976 filmHis "mad as hell" outburst as America…
China censorship storm hits groundbreaking venue after drama about Tibetan exiles pulled from scheduleThe Royal Court theatre has been accused of censorship by an award-winning Indian playwr…
The writer, standup and actor on the things that make her laugh the mostLuke McQueen singing. Or Holly Burn really committing to something in front of a bewildered audience. Senseless comedy…
★★★☆☆/★★★★☆Hampstead theatre, LondonHayley Atwell plays a ruthless capitalist while Georgia Christou shows promise with tale of a …
Northern Stage, NewcastleLaura Lindow's adaptation of the sci-fi classic is a thrilling parable of complacency that allows a brilliant cast to shineHG Wells wrote The War of the Worlds at th…
The Other Palace, LondonA school nerd escapes the bullies but meets a murderous movie mogul in an imaginative 1980s-themed musicalThings are looking up for new British musicals. The gorgeous…
Dancers at Sadler's Wells to grapple with clay in work co-created by Antony GormleyDancers on the London stage will grapple with more than three tonnes of clay in a new work co-created by sc…
The Doctor Who star, who is appearing in a West End revival of Pinter's The Birthday Party, will answer you questions from 12pm GMT on Monday 5 February 3.31pm GMT As Peter Capaldi's compan…
Exclusive: Sir Richard Eyre says cuts make it harder to take artistic risks with new talentThe former head of the National Theatre, Sir Richard Eyre, is calling for regional theatres to rece…
The London production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical surpasses The Book of Mormon as it hikes premium ticket pricesPremium seats for the London production of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Mi…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonFive New Yorkers, all named Betty, are magically transformed in this swaggering production of Jen Silverman's playJen Silverman's often raucously funny piece is ab…
The playwright juggles satire and farce in a knockabout celebration of Hull's tenure as UK city of cultureSatire is one thing, farce another, and the two forms prove hard to reconcile in thi…
Breach Theatre's new show turns the spotlight on courses preparing people for emergency situations. Do they dispel fear, or cause it?In a windowless room in a disused office block, Breach Th…
Soho theatre, LondonShortlisted for best newcomer at the Edinburgh festival, Pattison delivers a drolly direct account of an annus horribilisYou may not associate live comedy with tales of l…
Bridge theatre, LondonBen Whishaw and David Morrissey star in Nicholas Hytner's promenade production, which shows putative dictators can be populistsLike Shakespeare's Mark Antony, Nicholas …
Park theatre, LondonBanking dynasty story is beautifully sung, but the central character lacks the doleful warmth of Tevye'If I were a rich man," sings Tevye, the poor Jewish milkman in Jerr…
In her prizewinning play, Kendall Feaver charts the relationship between a young woman with mental health problems and her motherWhen Kendall Feaver was going through her old school reports,…
The Lowry, SalfordAdele Thomas's revival of McPherson's early play reveals the horror of loneliness to be on a par with fear of the undeadJust over 20 years on from its Royal Court debut, Co…
The Questors, LondonA deliberately unromantic view of the second world war as experienced by one family provides an antidote to current idealised versions on screenThis play by the late, muc…
Citizens, GlasgowThe tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles becomes an unflinching study of the effects of male violenceOn the face of it, Bold Girls is not a violent play. In form, …
Back on home soil, the Australian polymath discusses politics, musicals and #MeToo " and the worst year of his professional lifeTim Minchin has segued from Donald Trump to homophobia, from r…
Young Vic, LondonBijan Sheibani's revival of Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney's family drama brilliantly explores the complexities of brotherhoodIn the decade since The Brothers Size p…
Dorfman; Vaudeville theatre, LondonTension builds subtly in Annie Baker's unmissable John at the National, while Kathy Burke has a hectic take on Oscar WildeWhat counts as action in the thea…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet star is transcendent in the title role " with seven more principal ballerinas about to step into her shoes When Peter Wright mounted Giselle for the…