UEA Drama Studio, Norwich A scientist sees the climate crisis in action when she returns to her mother’s flooded home, while the mum just fancies a trip to see the penguinsIn these days of…
Kiln theatre, LondonTom Wright’s play explores how the Fab Four, and a rumoured affair with John Lennon, helped shape the manager’s tragically short lifeAt the age of 30, the Beatles’s…
New Wolsey theatre, Ipswich Vikki Stone’s freely adapted version of the once notorious seafaring broadcaster’s history is a terrrific premise for delivering a…
Dazzling performer, brilliant writer, maddening perfectionist, Easter Egg hunt maestro … on the 10th anniversary of Wood's death, those who knew her best celebrate the shy introvert who re…
Fresh from Stranger Things and Hamnet, the pair are surprised to find themselves playing Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in the West End. They talk chemistry, dating apps " and what they'v…
Arts theatre, Cambridge Marital uncoupling may not be the social taboo it was in the 1920s, but this sumptuous revival delivers timeless pathos with the witty barbs 'What's the use of arguin…
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson's novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of change Flora Thompson's autobiogr…
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonComposer Finn Anderson and director Tania Azevedo have created a powerful generational journey through the history of Appalachian song Much of the music of…
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonDespite the vocal bravura of the cast, this show doesn't capture the Jazz Age power couple's dazzle or darkness For decades people have been seeking to res…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRichard Greenberg's Broadway hit finally arrives in the UK " a festive gathering that rattles along with comic dialogue and the beaming charisma of Tracy-Ann Oberman…
Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen's The Lady f…
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyAmy Rosenthal's drama explores the aristocratic It girls' politics and sibling dynamics, but doesn't bring much new to the party " or accentuate the contemporary r…
Evolution London A strong cast sings live versions of all the hits against screens showing the film, backed by a terrific band and willing extras recruited from the audience There's no secre…
From Greek tragedy to Chekhov to Rosamund Pike in Inter Alia, handheld mics are everywhere on stage right now. Is this a thrilling innovation " or a pointless fad? Wig, robes and moves like …
Lyttelton theatre, London With anarchic energy, Pike plays a judge whose world is upended in a companion drama to Suzie Miller's hit, again directed by Justin Martin Three years ago, playwri…
Bristol Old VicSeiriol Davies' musical biography of Edwardian aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget is crammed with wit but its subject remains enigmatic 'Regrettably," sings Henry Cyril Paget, "very…
Paying theatregoers have bemoaned watching Don't Cry For Me Argentina on livestream while passersby experience it live for free. But is it a seven-minute stunt worth waiting for? Move over R…
Duke of York's theatre, LondonThis stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and score If you've ever wanted to …
Here We Are, a satirical mashup of two surrealist movie masterpieces, was finished after musicals maestro Stephen Sondheim died " outraging some fans. As the show hits Britain, its stars and…
Park theatre, LondonNeil LaBute's mordant humour comes to the fore in this three-hander, full of hyper-real dialogue, about the right to choose the manner of our departure Neil LaBute has a …
Finborough theatre, LondonYoung adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir's unpublished story from the 1950s Simone…
Almeida theatre, LondonBrimming with humour and compassion, the story of Jo and Harry, a couple who go their separate ways, is a powerful reminder of how theatre lets us live beyond our own …
Nottingham PlayhouseAisling Loftus brings out the unease underlying every scene of Dennis Kelly's haunting one-woman play This production of Dennis Kelly's one-woman play begins a little lik…
Charing Cross theatre, London Two-hander awkwardly studies Abraham Lincoln's wife through her sittings for photographer Mathew Brady Mary Lincoln, wife of the 16th president of the United St…
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…