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Radio 4 comedy Dickens pastiche comes wearisomely to the stage, with a different guest star every week; Caroline Leslie directs.
Michelle Terry plays Puck at the theatres she runs, directed by Elle While and with Mariah Gale as a female Bottom here called Nicola Bottome
Season opener at Shakespeare's Globe captures the shifting moods of early Shakespeare comedy; Michael Elcock, late of the musical Hex, co-stars.
Christina Bianco brings her exuberant solo show to the Menier for a short, very sweet run, with Ryan MacKenzie her ace accompanist
Onetime Tony-winner Brid Brennan ("Dancing at Lughnasa") delivers bigtime as a fierce matriarch fresh out of prison
2019 Off Broadway musical comes to London in a powerfully sung production directed by Whitney White and starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, a onetime Matilda
Olivier nominee Danny Lee Wynter makes his playwriting debut in a play starring himself, Ako Mitchell, and Dyllón Burnside, from the TV series 'Pose'
Elliott Evans takes the title role in this latest iteration of a still-problematic, slow-aborning musical, here directed by Hannah Chissick
Jenna Russell, in a break from her storied musicals career, plays the Scotswoman, Mill, in this fine revival of Zinnie Harris's elliptical if intriguing 2000 play, seen off Broadway in 2002
Anne Reid inherits Lois Smith's stage and screen role as Marjorie, opposite Olivier nominee Richard Fleeshman, late of the West End "Company"
The director Tinuke Craig follows up last summer's 'Jitney' with another bustling, boisterous play, this one a premiere from the Nigerian-British writer Diana Nneka Atuona; Sarah Parish star…
Sergo Vares and John Lightbody head the cast in Shakespeare's late Romance, which utilises both stages at the Globe for the first time.
Lydia Leonard, late of "Oslo," leads the cast of young writer Lulu Raczka's Jacobean mash-up, directed for the Almeida by the busy Rupert Goold.
Sabrina Wu, recently seen in "The Doctor," graduates to the solo part in critic-turned-playwright Ava Wong Davies's anatomy of love and loss
Hadley Fraser leads adroit new cast in third separate London showing of Ben Power's five-time Tony-winning play.
Onetime Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl makes a terrific West End debut in newly apposite thriller from Danny Robins
Katy Stephens is a magnificent, maleficent Titus in Jude Christian's all-female production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, complete with original songs
London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
TV writer Steven Moffat, of Sherlock and Doctor Who renown, crosses over to the stage in a starry production headed by the wonderful Reece Shearsmith
Alex Edelman brings his superb Off Broadway hit back to London, where it was previously seen pre-pandemic
Lillian Hellman's prescient 1940 play is terrifically well served in a Donmar revival starring English stage veteran Patricia Hodge and a radiant UK stage debut from Caitlin FitzGerald
Pooja Ghai directs Hannah Khalil's play, a co-production between Shakespeare's Globe and Tamasha that captures in some essential way captures the zeitgeist
Ian McKellen is Caroline Goose in a blissed-out panto joyfully directed by Cal McCrystal and co-starring the indispensable Anna-Jane Casey as Cilla Quack.
Robert Bathurst is a nightshirt-wearing Scrooge in a winning 1930s Tennessee take on the ubiquitous Dickens title
Michael Luwoye, late of "Hamilton," has the title role in drearily hagiographic biomusical, enlivened only by its dancing
