The world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's play about eight local women dealing with the consequences of a luxurious skyscraper hotel being built in Bolton feels too unbelievable 

The ‘Atonement’ film director Joe Wright returns to the Young Vic with this Bertolt Brecht play which is performed in-the-round with a dazzling planetarium design 

Emma Donoghue has adapted her book ‘Room’ – which was triggered by the Josef Fritzl case in Austria – for the stage 

This play is based on the memoir by the former British diplomat Rory Stewart, who was posted to a province of the newly liberated Iraq to serve as governor

A revival of Tony Kushner’s two-part epic – set in New York about gay rights amidst the Aids crisis and a Conservative Reagan administration – is directed by Marianne Elliott

Lenny Henry stars in Bertolt Brecht's satire about the rise of a demagogue in a new adaptation by Bruce Norris which includes persistent references to Donald Trump

After the suicide of their son, a grieving mother and father dine with his tormenter. Masochism, absolution, forgiveness, and revenge are unravelled in the intimacy of the Finborough Theatre.

An overlooked treasure rewards audiences with revenge, blood, and humour

Jonzi D's annual international festival of hip hop dance included acrobatics from South Korea's Just Dance and B-Girl skill from the all-female Canadian crew Tentacle Tribe 

Daniel Kramer's production, which reinterprets the star-crossed lovers as modern-day teenagers and includes Village People's 'YMCA' as the main number at the Capulets' ball, is bound to upset the purists 

Hope Theatre Company's 'Gypsy Queen' by writer/actor Rob Ward about two professional boxers learning to love is a touching romance 

Dance performances including 'Requiem for Aleppo' performed at Sadler’s Wells and the upcoming 'Material Men Redux' at The Place show how inherently political the moving body really is

Simon Stephens joins forces with movement director Imogen Knight for this highly visual and physicalised play that uses its dramatic title merely as a metaphor  

Director Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Albert Camus' dark story which was written in the aftermath of the Nazi's march across Europe is given a contemporary update  

Jamie Lloyd directs this award-winning off-Broadway play from the Pulitzer Prize nominee that questions the price to be paid for creating supreme beauty 

Edward Albee’s darkly comic masterpiece, directed by Ian Rickson, about a married architect who falls in love with a goat, stars Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo

Roger Michell directs Raine's powerful play about rape and justice which stars Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben Chaplin 

The new all-female production of Laura Wade's ‘Posh’, about a fictional version of the riotous Oxford students' Bullingdon Club, is directed by Cressida Carré