Olivier theatre, LondonWriters Nina and Moses Raine add comedy and raunch to Maxim Gorky's satire of the holidaying elite In 1898, Maxim Gorky wrote a fan letter to Anton Chekhov. Gorky was …
Watford Palace theatrePaying tribute to his grandfather whose 1983 show at the same venue lasted only one night the actor and comedian skilfully unveils a big reveal worthy of Inside No 9 Th…
Mercury theatre, Colchester The targets of the infamous 17th-century 'witchfinder general' narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore's novel 'It does not matter what is true," a teenager…
Young Vic, LondonJordan Fein's revival finds hypnotic power in Miller's 1994 play, as Pearl Chanda and Eli Gelb bring haunting emotional force to a story of paralysis and denial Some might s…
Arcola theatre, London Nicolas Kent directs a set of short plays by British and Ukrainian writers giving devastating vignettes from the conflict Nicolas Kent's concept for a series of short …
King's Head theatre, LondonJessica Regan creates a collaborative collage of the capital and its romantic encounters, eccentric flatmates and eye-watering rents Jessica Regan's promising one-…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonEmerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV's Adolescence The audience enters through a …
Donmar Warehouse, London The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler's two-hander about grief and family There are many ingenious ideas in Anna Ziegler's spa…
Hampstead theatre, London Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell's new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life This is a play about George…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon After a book, a film and a Ted Talk, William Kamkwamba's heroically inventive response to floods, drought and starvation is now delivered with energetic son…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe Black Panther actor's melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic Chadwick Boseman was not only an acco…
Noël Coward theatre, LondonDeploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker's characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required Are people born wi…
He left school at 15 and worked as a scaffolder. Then success on New Faces launched him to stardom " and he's been a panto and musicals sensation ever since. So what made him write a comedy …
Omnibus theatre, London Inspired by the 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller, the lost hopes and memories of a young Black woman " played beautifully by Jada Evelyn Ramsey " are explored through w…
Aldwych theatre, LondonWilliam Nicholson's take on CS Lewis's marriage to an American divorcee should have you in bits but it fails to feel as eviscerating as it should The drama of love and…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Using photographs from an archive album of Auschwitz staff relaxing, this searing drama builds into an unforgettable inquiry This play is based around a …
Dorfman theatre, LondonA financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller The National Theatre is certain…
The former Bond girl talks about her new role as a top writer accused of stealing a story as her actor husband is cancelled " and why she has no regrets about her time aboard the 007 rollerc…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonRichard Eyre's adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg's original savagery August Strindberg's portrait of marriage is unremittingly bleak in …
Minerva theatre, Chichester Award-winning writer Tim Foley's frightfest brings an out of work actor to a country manor to burnish the myth of its resident wraith. Beware of the silhouetted h…
Old Vic, LondonStuffed with knowledge and often regarded as the playwright's finest work, this drama's sheer cleverness gleams in an exuberant production When Tom Stoppard was asked what thi…
Theatro Technis, London In Philip de Voni's ambitious debut play, a clash over funeral rites exposes deep divisions in a British-Cypriot extended family Ancient Greek literature teems with c…
Bush theatre, London Farah Najib's play tells the story of an isolated woman who dies at home and considers the community's responsibility The opening quote to Farah Najib's drama tells us t…
Almeida theatre, LondonIn a bloody, brilliant, full circle Rupert Goold bows out as artistic director of the Almeida with a timely revival of the musical he first staged here in 2013 The ter…
Playhouse, SheffieldTwo siblings growing up in a high-rise search for escape and liberation in this idiosyncratic and infectious drama with a beautiful script by Debris Stevenson Debris Stev…