Director Annie Ryan's candlelit production of John webster's 'The White Devil' at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, is the perfect setting for the play about deceit, treachery and revenge

The Royal Ballet's dance-opera by composer Philip Glass is based on the writings of Jean Cocteau and directed and choreographed by Javier De Frutos

Emmet Kirwn's two-hander, starring himself as Jason, a wannabe DJ and Ian Lloyd Anderson, as his long-lost drug addict brother, is highly charged theatre 

On 1 September 2004, the children were celebrating the start of the new academic year at School No 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia (part of the Russian federation). They had brought in balloons at the request of the teachers. The fun was grotesquely terminated when an armed group stormed the building demanding Chechen independence. For the next 52 hours, more than a thousand people – parents, grandparents, teachers and children – were held hostage in the school gym in sweltering conditions, forbidden water and reduced to drinking their own urine. 186 children were among the 334 who lost their lives in the carnage of the siege's chaotic, violent and still-controversial close.

The UK premiere of German dramatist Roland Schimmelpfennig's play, which was written in response to the resurgence of the far right across Europe, couldn't be more timely with the Presidential inauguration of Donald Trump this week

Benjamin revives his opera with much of the original cast – just three years after its premiere 

Touts are already selling tickets despite paperless system

Olivier award-winning East London hip-hop dance group, Boy Blue Entertainment, perform an abstract triple bill with new work and ditch the narrative 

A simple stage allows the small cast to carry the weight of Khaled Housseini's debut novel that sold multi-millions worldwide and follows the film adaptation

An invented terrorist atrocity is the topical subject of this tragicomedy by Stuart Slade that imagines a plane from New York downed in the Fulham area with half a dozen survivors 

Matthew Spangler’s stage production, based on Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling 2003 novel, makes its West End debut 

Zoonation's hip hop 'The Mad Hatter's Tea Party' with characters inspired by ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ is complete with Ben Stones’ set designs of oversized teapots and fairy lights

Shobana Jeyasingh was commissioned to create a dance piece inspired by Rodin’s sculptures at the Courtauld Institute's exhibition, which was danced by Noora Kela 

This adaptation of Anna Sewell’s classic novel boasts a panto horse in the title role

The Royal Ballet revives the same production of 'The Sleeping Beauty' that reopened the Royal Opera House 70 years ago after the war

The productions underline the rich resonances between these comedies

The West End premiere of ‘Dreamgirls’, starring ‘Glee’s’ Amber Riley, takes you on a supercharged journey with the fictional band The Dreams, loosely based on The Supremes

Rambert's 'In the Making' allows audiences to see sketches, experiments, short works and works in progress performed in their South Bank studios