Assembly Hall, EdinburghThe company is understandably seeking 'good stories with happy endings' but the best results come in a brief folk-dance Perhaps it isn't surprising that there's a ret…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghAlexa Davies' performance as Charly, a rhyming drug dealer who is falling apart, is the gleaming heart of this production 'I am a trailblazer," declares Cha…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghNat McCleary's play brings five women together through a Highland Games that does not always make them welcome Backhold wrestling, a folk sport that thrives in Sco…
Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah's play takes a character from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun on a journey to Africa A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play, …
Minerva, ChichesterRakie Ayola is superb in a story about the exploitation of a Black female playwright by the great and the greedy of London's theatreland It's quite a title. Adrienne Kenn…
Royal Opera House, LondonLaura Morera takes her final bow as Anastasia in a night that also includes Christopher Wheeldon's winningly athletic Olympian ballet and McGregor's Untitled, 2023 T…
Royal Court, London Three audacious monologues by McDowall, dazzlingly performed by Kate O'Flynn, open vivid windows on to day-to-day existence Alistair McDowall's plays are portals to the e…
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye " but here's a selection of those we've already reviewed Richard Marsh has clearly seen Die …
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonA young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history A tragic tale rollicking with positive en…
Orange Tree, Richmond Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society Elizabeth (Olivia Vinall), the…
Queen's theatre, HornchurchFearing the playwright's works will be lost to history, former colleagues enact a rescue plan in Lauren Gunderson's generous-hearted comedy Less giddy than Shakesp…
Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director's final film " a narrated meditation over a static blue screen " as a 'thank yo…
The actor, better known as a TV cop, is portraying Julius Caesar's assassin in a first for the RSC. She reveals why she's been studying revolutionaries, from Mexican Zapatistas to Welsh nati…
Playground theatre, LondonWriter Richard Norton-Taylor and director Nicolas Kent's almost anti-theatrical play uses residents' testimonies and gives the bereaved a much-needed voice Staged a…
Tracy-Ann Oberman's Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma " while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare's most notor…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTara Fitzgerald plays the former violinist in a restaging of Tom Kempinski's play that pits patient against doctor in a furious battle of wills Change one element …
The Rev Simon Grigg, a former stage director, welcomes our writer to St Paul's in Covent Garden, where the stars worship "She's a very good Christian soul, but not the dynamic person the org…
As Hellman's 1941 play is revived at the Donmar Warehouse in London, director Ellen McDougall and dramaturg Emma Jude explain how it remains a call to arms "We're shaken out of the magnolias…
Garrick theatre, LondonIn Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman Emma Corrin's…
Wilton's Music Hall, London Piers Torday's update of the children's classic brings Kenneth Grahame's animals to modern-day London Kenneth Grahame had terrifying nightmares about lying helple…
Ustinov Studio, BathDickie Beau offers a merry miscellany, featuring stories from Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw, in a meditation on theatre that is closer to possession than parody Dickie Beau…
Arcola, LondonFrank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can't save Unlikely as it seems, TS Eliot and G…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonGill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London's queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth Two elderly men sit side b…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonIvy Tiller: Vicar's Daughter, Squirrel Killer by Bea Roberts and Nina Segal's O, Island! offer cartoonish satire that lacks sting The RSC has been sitting…
As Kenneth MacMillan's classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson " celebrated for dancing the lead role " reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet It has b…