Tender by Dave Harris follows the male strippers at the failing Dancing Bears Club. Its playwright and stars discuss sex, power and their research trip to Magic Mike LiveWhen the LA wildfire…
Soho theatre, LondonChristopher Brett Bailey reads his surreal novella and freewheels his way through extreme vice, erotic tension and dulled indifferenceNo one tells a story like Christophe…
In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, th…
King's Head theatre, LondonMasculinity is not in a good way in this trio of short plays " the first of 10 presented in two venues " which deal in violence, misanthropy and murder Neil LaBute…
zack mennell made a costume out of nappies and waded into filthy waterways saying: 'I'm going to be the parasite.' The performance artist's project became more literal than originally intend…
New Diorama theatre, LondonA man bearing the same name as the actor wants to apologise to a woman for something he has 'accidentally' done in this patience-testing undisciplined drama 'The f…
Colab Tower, LondonGet lucky with your arrival time in this expansion of Aeschylus's Oresteia and you'll witness a fight or a sacrifice " but there are long dull patches Egg yolk is being mi…
Soho theatre, LondonAllen, one half of the influential Pajama Men comedy duo, mines his personal trauma for a slightly undercooked show about his high-octane upbringing in New Mexico Shenoah…
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonCave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls' savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans Love is expre…
Theatre503, LondonOlga Braga's award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms " finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat Olga Braga's stark new …
New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash's doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments secti…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonOllie Maddigan's open-hearted solo show about a motherless 15-year-old is full of crude comedy and swaggering confidence " until it exposes the grief underneath a…
When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring b…
The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn't. Now she's determined to use success to …
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Priestley's shenanigan-filled 1934 comedy, three couples discover they are not married after all " meaning the men lose authority and the women gain freedoms Stom…
Ambassadors theatre, LondonWith expert direction and eye-catching stagecraft, the tension is ramped up in a play inspired by the film franchise Darkness holds us long enough for the dread to…
Soho theatre, LondonSex Education's Patricia Allison and The Gold's Stefanie Martini star in Jess Edwards's debut play about love and science The red flags are raised and waving. This queer …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonDirector Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies' feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with bloo…
White Bear theatre, LondonWriter Gary Owen stitches together glimpses of contemporary life with a spin on Arthur Schnitzler's classic that doesn't quite coalesce Gary Owen's gentle dance of …
Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley's conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real Logic and reason are torn t…
This madcap variety show sees its titular lead direct proceedings from her control desk. Rachel, her co-star sister and their mum explain what it reveals about disability in the UK Rachel O…
It's been the biggest secret in theatre: what will the marmalade-loving, hyper-polite Peruvian look like in Paddington the Musical? As the curtain rises, we speak to the new bear's creator, …
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta's forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period The muscle of Tanika Gupta's adaptati…
Arcola theatre, London In 1980s Northern Ireland, an abusive father and the soldiers patrolling the streets morph into a common enemy to rage against, in Meghan Tyler's blackly comic tale Th…
Marylebone theatre, LondonThe lives of unhappy couples across two generations play out in overlapping timelines and geographies in Anna Ziegler's uneven drama When Abe's daughter asks him wh…