Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald makes her West End debut as the jazz icon, Billie Holiday

The audience plays the jury in this courtroom drama, by the lawyer and writer Ferdinand von Schirach, in which a fighter pilot is on trial for shooting down a hijacked aircraft 

The UK premiere of Maxim Gorky's play, which was banned in Russia due to its treatment of police corruption, is directed by Anthony Biggs 

This adaptation of Rene Denfeld’s novel is an oddly casual, underdeveloped production on the morality of death row inmates

Richard Bean's two-hander 'Kiss Me' about a woman in 1929 desperate for a baby who has a brief encounter with a sperm donor is strikingly different from his mega-hit 'One Man, Two Guvnors'

Delta Air Lines and Bank of America withdraw support for New York staging of Shakespeare play recasting 'noblest Roman of them all' as tweet-happy President

Best known for playing Moriarty in BBC’s ‘Sherlock’, the actor reprises the role of Hamlet in the West End transfer of Robert Icke’s production

The new play by Inua Ellams is set in barber shops in London, Lagos, Johannesburg, Accra, Kampala and Harare

DC Moore is a playwright of admirable wit, but this work – set in early industrial England and starring Anne-Marie Duff – lacks focus

The Royal Ballet celebrates its founder choreographer with a mixed programme of three of Ashton's works: ‘The Dream’, ‘Symphonic Variations’ and ‘Marguerite and Armand’

Robert Lepage’s one-man performance is his most autobiographical play to date

Mark Morris dance Group's 'Pepperland' kicks off the Beatles celebration in Liverpool as part of the 'Sgt Pepper' at 50 season 

Black actors wear whiteface and white actors assume blackface in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's play which deals with the issues of racial difference with playful provocativeness

Twice a year JB Shorts in Manchester presents six new 15-minute plays by top TV writers 

Boyega who is better known for his role in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' stars in Joe Murphy's production of 'Woyzeck' revised by 'Harry Potter' script writer Jack Thorne 

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 

Nunn, who returned to Rattigan following the huge success of ‘Flare Path’, talks about his love of the British dramatist, as his new production of ‘Love In Idleness’ transfers to the West End 

With the all-female staging of 'Medea' which is currently on at the Bristol Old Vic, we take a look at what drives productions to be exclusive to women