The Fellowship: incendiary material that doesn’t quite ignite
Roy Williams's latest, at Hampstead, dares to hold a mirror up to prejudice within the black community, but the drama doesn't entirely gel
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A Doll’s House Part 2: How on earth do you follow up Ibsen’s masterpiece? Exactly like this
Lucas Hnath's audacious sequel to the pioneering 1879 drama, at the Donmar Warehouse, is nothing less than essential viewing
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The Playboy of the West Indies, review: a prime example of why musical comedy so often fails
The addition of songs to Mustapha Matura's canny play just heightens the sense of artifice and intrusion
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Jitney is precisely the sort of project that could save Britain’s theatres
FIrst staged in Leeds and now at the Old Vic, this is a tremendous staging of August Wilson's full-fat portrait of black working-class life
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Not One of These People: a triumph of deep-fakery? Yes, really
Premiering at the Théâtre la Bordée in Québec, Martin Crimp's latest sees him speak 299 lines from 299 characters – with startling results
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Britannicus, review: from incels to Putin, Racine's dusty old play feels oddly relevant
This assured revival at the Lyric Hammersmith is the mother of all psycho-dramas
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The Glass Menagerie, review: Amy Adams is heartbreaking in her London debut
Jeremy Herrin's production of the breakthrough Tennessee Williams play stars Amy Adams as neurotic and pitiable Amanda
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The Dance of Death, Ustinov Studio Bath, review
Lindsay Duncan shines - opposite real-life spouse Hilton McRae - in this slightly restrained production of Strindberg's spiky marital drama
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Henry VIII, review: this bawdy take on Shakespeare's final play is pure theatre magic
A clever and funny production at Shakespeare's Globe shifts the focus away from the petulant monarch and on to his first two wives
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The Unfriend, Chichester, review: is Steven Moffat the new Alan Ayckbourn?
Frances Barber is terrific in the Sherlock creator's effortlessly entertaining debut play
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Girl on an Altar: abused, debased, but survivors, it’s the women who are unforgettable
Marina Carr's new twist on ancient-Greek tragedy at the Kiln Theatre spells out too much, but it's superbly acted and pungently topical
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Legally Blonde: three cheers for Elle, but where are the great songs, m’lud?
Courtney Bowman is terrific in the lead role, but this staging at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park is short on memorable songs
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Murder on the Orient Express, review: watch out, David Suchet, there's a superb new Poirot in town
Henry Goodman is mesmerising in Chichester Festival Theatre's handsome production of Agatha Christie's whodunit
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The Father and the Assassin: an important but dramatically slight study of Gandhi and his killer
Anupama Chandrasekhar’s play, at the National’s Olivier Theatre, is fascinating and topical but doesn't have you on the edge of your seat
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My Fair Lady, Coliseum, review: a watershed production, but not a benchmark
The first black actress to play Eliza Doolittle, Amara Okereke flowers opposite Vanessa Redgrave, but the staging is underpowered
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The House of Shades, review: a disturbing drama every Labour MP should see
Beth Steel’s new decades-spanning epic chronicles how the party poisoned its relationship with the working class
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Grease, review: Peter Andre shines with a small but prominent part
In the news thanks to the 'Wagatha Christie' trial, the star is endearingly game for a laugh in this excellent 50th-anniversary production
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The Breach: a dark descent into the wild adolescents of blue-collar 70s America
Naomi Wallace’s new play at the Hampstead, about life in 70s and 90s Kentucky, leavens its shocking central event with wit and politics
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First Touch, Nottingham Playhouse, review: an uncomfortable story of sexual abuse in football
Nathaniel Price's play is inspired by the real-life trauma of hundreds of young boys
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Alan Ayckbourn’s wit is suffocated by the ghost of Covid restrictions past
All Lies, the great craftsman’s 86th full-length drama, premiering in Cumbia, is light on wit and heavy on clunky structure
