New Yorker Michelle Dorrance brings ETM – electronic tap music – to Sadler's Wells for the first time

Helen Edmundson's play isn't sharp enough in telling the story of the Stuart monarch 

Syrian dancer and choreographer Mithkal Alzghair's work is part of the Shubbak festival of Arab culture

This new dance musical in a rainforest setting draws on environmental concerns and is supported by the WWF and the Eden Project 

The ‘Homeland’ actor F Murray Abraham has returned to the British stage for the first time since he starred as Shylock for the RSC a decade ago 

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

James Graham's new play about the rise of The Sun newspaper stars Bertie Carvel as Rupert Murdoch and is directed by Rupert Goold 

The Birmingham Royal Ballet perform three short short works including the world premiere of Ruth Brill's 'Arcadia', along with 'Le Baiser de la fée' and 'Pineapple Poll'  

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 

Alston’s triple bill includes his newest work ‘Chacony’ along with the popular ‘Gypsy Mixture’ and Martin Lawrance’s ‘Tangent’  

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'

Daniel de Andrade’s new staging of John Boyne’s novel is part of Northern Ballet’s generally successful push to widen its repertoire 

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

The revival of the 1944 Leonard Bernstein musical which is performed in the amphitheatre in Regent's Park deserves to be a helluva hit

Gary Owen's play, which delves into father-son relationships against a backdrop of a video-game violence, is directed by Rachel O'Riordan

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