Royal Festival Hall, LondonBorrowing from Swan Lake and the Ugly Duckling, Circa deliver wow moments and ornate arrangements as the dancers move in finely tuned equilibrium Australian compan…
Majestic Theatre, New York Stephen Sondheim's much-adored musical gets a dazzling new makeover with a bravura turn from the six-time Tony award winner As long as there have been child stars,…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonInspired by the filmography of its Prospero, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lloyd's production is audaciously odd " a sci-fi Shakespeare, or gestural Greek theatre i…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonUnfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner If you've never he…
Almeida, LondonRebecca Frecknall's stark production brings out the rage in Williams' play through powerful performances, but fails to plumb all its emotional depths 'A family crisis brings o…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe singing blows the roof off in this magnificently fun production of Dave Malloy's musical, based on a section of War and Peace The pithy, one-line character summar…
Anti-corruption champion to examine Arts Council England projects and lack of facilities in some areas of country Margaret Hodge will oversee a review into regional inequality in the arts af…
After watching the glitziest pantomime in London, I had a night out at a hilarious 'adult' show. It was a good reminder that you don't need big money to deliver big laughs They call the Pall…
Our Evenings follows an actor through 60 years of treading the boards and holds up a mirror to how society has shapeshifted Alan Hollinghurst's remarkable new novel, Our Evenings, is many th…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe quicksilver actor is a vocal glory as the poet and classicist AE Housman looking back at his younger, tormented self in Tom Stoppard's play A man arrives at the …
Sarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics' picks of the best stage shows of the year ' More on t…
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York An adept cast, including Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht and Bill Irwin, bring a sharply funny and timely new play to life By all appearances, the Eureka Day sc…
Good sex, bad sex, the horror of aerobics and the tyranny of camcorders … the actor writes about starring in Nobel-winner Annie Ernaux's memoir, our play of the year' More on the best cult…
Olivier; Lyttelton; Dominion; Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAt the National, Noel Streatfeild's classic flies while Oscar Wilde's wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly fai…
Arcola theatre, LondonThis recreation of Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic is frenetic fun, with the dinosaurs brought to life using physical comedy " and traffic cones Hold on to your … wha…
Jacksons Lane, London Tove Jansson's beloved creations have their hibernation interrupted by snowball juggling and jolly ukulele tunes in this sweet adaptation Anyone ap…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare's melancholy comedy The title Twel…
Young Vic, London Anne-Marie Duff is a ruthless fighter desperate to escape her marriage and home in a production which doesn't lack for conviction, but whose shocks and stings do not delive…
London Coliseum Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly product…
Soho theatre, London The major showman takes a solo stroll through show tunes, sing alongs and seasonal hits with vocal highlights that leave you gasping for breath Some Christmasses ago, Le…
Hull Truck TheatreThe audience sees above and below the floorboards " with a little help from puppets " as Mark Babych's production cleverly plays with scale A family forced to flee their ho…
From Ballet Shoes to Wicked, stories of female empowerment and friendship are triumphing on stage and screen "I'd start with Ballet Shoes first. It's my favourite," Meg Ryan's character urge…
Hayes Theatre, New York City Leslye Headland's 2018 play makes for a tense and timely pre-holiday watch with a starry cast, including Shailene Woodley and Zachary Quinto, giving it their all…
Royal Court, LondonSutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee reflects on identity, family and tragedy in a production that is part monologue and part experimental gig Sutara Gayle, also known as Lorna Gee,…
West Horsley Place, SurreyStaged in Ghosts' Button House, this interactive whodunnit has a lot of fun with detective-story tropes, quick-change characters and a clever solution The writer of…