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The play’s quiet despair is heightened by decontextualised staging at the Belasco Theatre
The Harold Pinter Theatre’s staging boasts an outstanding performance from Imelda Staunton
Steve Waters imagines a 1981 meeting at which the Labour Gang of Four resolved to set up the SDP
Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire make a fine double act in this Stoppard revival
Playwright debbie tucker green’s study of love is oblique yet compassionate
Ellen McDougall’s production makes eloquent use of the candlelit stage
A flawed but compassionate play at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre, London
A vivid sense of loss runs through Robert Icke’s production at the Almeida, London
A dense legal-cum-theological clash with flashes of verbal jousting at New York’s Linda Gross Theater
Aimé Césaire’s potent play about a contradictory figure who challenged French rule in Haitistands
A radical take on Shakespeare’s comedy focuses on sexual politics at the expense of — well, comedy
Tamsin Greig is a master/mistress of her po-faced comedy in Godwin’s revival
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Gender-blind casting means better roles for women — but is it a gimmick?
Broadway revival bursts into life after the interval as it skips forward a century
Steven Levenson’s play takes a direct shot at the Israel lobby in the US
A musical version of the Calendar Girls story is flawed but immensely poignant
Trevor Griffiths’ 1977 version of Chekhov’s drama has its first London staging
Rebranded theatre hosts a revived show about a prohibition-era soirée
Members of the oldest profession share their stories in a brave and illuminating show
Wallace Shawn’s play at the Pershing Square Signature Center explores creeping authoritarianism
A stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel is rich in movement and fight sequences
Sarah Hemming on the growing popularity of shows without a script
Tom Stoppard’s clever, poignant play comes to the Apollo Theatre
Reed Birney stars as a devout American abroad at the Tony Kiser Theatre, New York
This witty, melodic show follows a 16-year-old with ambitions to be a drag queen