Chichester Festival theatreDavid Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply il…
Bristol Old VicThe Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations A classical actor who appeared in a recen…
King's Head theatre, LondonThe media tycoon comes up against union boss Brenda Dean in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's docudrama about the 80s Wapping dispute A teacher in Alan Bennett's The …
Theatr Clwyd, MoldDirector Kate Wasserberg emphasises the fantasy and supernatural elements of the poet's 'play for voices' in an entertaining and inclusive production As with Molière at th…
Tabard theatre, LondonThe actor shines as Hitler's favourite film director, who flirts and finagles her way through a fictional interview with an alcoholic, philandering journalist hiding hi…
Barn theatre, CirencesterSimon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve In a nervy theatre economy, with familiar material most l…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actor gives a skilful performance in the late playwright's 1995 meditation on love and literary posterity, directed by Jonathan Kent A fortnight after West End p…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon This adaptation of the beloved tale about an ogre looks beautiful but does not grow into a giant to rival the company's hit Roald Dahl musical …
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen " here are some of his very best With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed …
Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed's witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo A serial killer working through the alphabet (…
The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail's Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday? In March 1977, BBC One screened Spend, Spe…
Richmond theatre, LondonGuy Unsworth ups the jokes in a play that is loving towards its prime-time TV source and hugely entertaining for fans British touring theatre at the moment is often a…
Curve theatre, LeicesterCathy Tyson and Patrick Robinson dazzle in this knockout production of Edward Albee's verbally violent play, full of misogynistic one-liners and tarnished souls Edwar…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonDaniel Raggett's audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show Audiences arriving t…
Exeter Northcott theatreThe journey of the Devon club from league minnows to championship winners is told with considerable elan and affection Driving to this theatre, I passed signs to Sidm…
Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist From TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Arm…
Chichester Festival theatreWilliam Golding's bleak vision of civilisation holds up after 70 years, but Nigel Williams's 1995 adaptation, revived with a sparky cast, might not be cruel enough…
Birmingham RepThe actor offers up lightning asides as Patricia Highsmith's social chameleon in a meta staging by Mark Leipacher Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel about a conscience-free killer…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonHugh Whitemore's 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning When premiere…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDirector Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish tragedian's play about how people use each other up in love and art In an interview before his production of N…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonFizzing with intelligence and featuring a catastrophic misunderstanding and a deeply symbolic cigar, this richly imagined play feels all too plausible If the…
Tabard theatre, LondonA man returns home having been reported missing for 24 hours in this welcome revival of RC Sherriff's postwar hit Our perceptions of the first world war are greatly sha…
Barn theatre, CirencesterFeaturing extraordinary voice acting, this play about the birth of the BBC's farming drama will equally satisfy superfans and everyday folk Even regular listeners to…
She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it The m…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonLossi the lurcher is the only cast member not playing an instrument in this show aimed at younger audiences In the movie Shakespeare in Love, the theatre …