Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas's play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny From Gentleman Jack …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonHeirs and spares fight under a sleazeball Roman emperor and candles take a hammering in a brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble What do you …
The innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer Simon Stone doe…
Novelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil ' Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91 The novelist Fay Weldon, who …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThis co-production between the Globe and Tamasha gives voice to five fluent, witty and graceful women, allowing them to reshape the ancient tales as their own …
The comedian-writer's One Woman Show takes hilarious issue with the Fleabag-style 'messy woman' trope. As it transfers to London's West End, she says she feels 'at odds' with its success Wha…
The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf's classic work of gender fluidity feels " and remember their own queer battles Emma Corrin…
As Complicité's Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk's feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm Time feels out of j…
In his new play, the screenwriter and author investigates ideas of individualism, sexual freedom and mortality through a woman who recreates herself as a cyborg David Farr is perplexed by tw…
Lyttelton theatre, LondonA group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage's play directed by Lynette Linton 'You're a genius with a dr…
In the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we've already reviewed " including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry This searing, sweaty disco is a h…
Olivier theatre, LondonAnupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today When it comes to taboo-busting, Anupama Cha…
How did the novelist adapt her bestseller The Taxidermist's Daughter for the stage? By stripping out the gore, ratcheting up the revenge " and asking her actor son for tips 'I've very much e…
Almeida theatre, LondonA cycle of nine community pieces that use black comedy and cautionary tales to celebrate the people who keep things going For its latest show, the Almeida, in Islingto…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas peels back the emotional layers in a group-therapy drama that fizzes towards a devastating finale A family of four and a therapist tiptoe around one anot…
Sieges, riots, serial killings, sex work … Alecky Blythe has put them all on stage. She reveals all about her latest project " an epic look at the comic ups and touching downs of teenagers…
Duke of York's theatre, LondonShapeshifting creatures take centre stage in Katy Rudd's production that terrifyingly evokes childhood nightmares and family trauma Neil Gaiman's short, lyrical…
The former League of Gentlemen star on his love of low-budget British spinechillers, his loathing of Brexit and a slew of projects opening this winter Mark Gatiss scans the breakfast menu at…
It started with lockdown and a broken angel, but Coventry's year as city of culture is highlighting its reputation for resilience Shortly before midnight on 23 January 2020, security camera…
Gielgud theatre, LondonThe climactic play based on Hilary Mantel's magisterial trilogy has wit and grace but no great dramatic release It's a truism all too well known to Thomas Cromwell tha…
Four years ago, she was involved in a horrific accident. Little did she know it would leave her uniquely prepared to play a noblewoman hit by a falling elephant in the RSC's new Christmas mu…
Bush, LondonHumiliation meets humour as Mika Onyx Johnson tells of his hard-won transformation through rap, storytelling and dance From the moment Mika Onyx Johnson bounces on to the stage, …
Kitchen discos and archive performances kept us going " but being stuck at home made me pine for a full house In the early months of the pandemic, as the survival instinct of the live arts c…
Nottingham PlayhouseJenna Russell captures the tragedy in this rags-to-rags story but the power of the songs can't hide the play's weaknesses From the moment Jane Lapotaire stepped out as "t…
Later this month, in one of the most ambitious live artworks ever staged, a giant puppet will trek from the Syria-Turkey border to Manchester, in a moving-theatre show of solidarity with as…