Writer and Director: Esalan Gates Superimposing equality politics onto just-post-Norman Conquest England is an intriguing premise, rolled out to hilarious effect in this brand-new farce from acclaimed...

Choreographers: Adonis Foniadakis (Pearls); Goyo Montero (Chacona)  On paper, pairing highly rhythmic contemporary dance, rooted in the heat and sensuality of Latin American movement, with the devout,...

Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: James Lapine Director: Jordan Fein There is no such thing as a happy ending, and if you stray from the expected path, you may find an altogether better ending....

Writer: Tim Crouch Directors: Karl James, Andy Smith and Tim Crouch More than 20 years since its first outing, Tim Crouch’s hugely influential multilayered slice of conceptual metatheatre still has th...

Writer and Director: Ramzi Bashour Daniel Zolghadri’s character in this endearing film says that the best things about America are diners and road trips. There are plenty of diners in this road movie,...

Writer and Director: Ana Urushadze Writer-director Ana Urushadze tells an epic life story in almost a single stream of consciousness that actually takes place across seven days or so as an actor conte...

Writers: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat and Sundus Hashmi Director: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat Visually splendid, anchored by the colour red, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat and Sundus Hashmi’s Lali opens with a vibrant Indi...

Writer: Stephen Beresford Director: Simon Stone The 2026 BFI London Film Festival is full of theatrical stories this year but none will be greater than this, Stephen Beresford and Simon Stone’s Elsino...

Book & Lyrics: Howard Ashman Music: Alan Menken Director & Choreographer: Carrie-Anne Ingrouille From the opening number to the final bow, this production of Little Shop of Horrors is an absolute triu...

Writer: Joshua J. Jewkes Jared works at not just any call centre, but a hotline for people considering cheating on their partners. As acting supervisor, he takes particular pride in the fact that they...

Book: Kate Prince and Priya Parmar Music: Josh Cohen and DJ Walde Lyrics: Kate Prince Director: Kate Prince If one name is synonymous with women’s suffrage, it is Pankhurst. In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurs...

Book and Lyrics: Chris Broderick Music: Rob Shepherd and Chris Broderick Adaptor: Teresa Howard Director: Michael Oakley Any adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck is always going to be problematic, as...

Writer and Director: Andy Sandberg  As assets concentrate in fewer hands at unprecedented pace, Andy Sandberg’s darkly comedic Affluenza offers pointed insight into the perils of ultra-wealth – especi...

Writer: Helen Goodman and Joseph Dewey Director: Helen Goodman It is 1982. Jane’s alcoholic dad has just died. Mum, presumably in mourning and traumatised by the presence of invading Argentine troops ...

Writer: Mei Leng Yew Director: Ailin Conant Mei Leng Yew’s two-hander (plus a walk-on) is warm, funny and beautifully directed and acted in the Bush’s intimate studio space. Nonetheless, there are iss...

Writer: Sam Holcroft Director: Feiyang Yang Sam Holcroft’s A Mirror is a grippingly ingenious play which debuted at Almedia Theatre in 2023. And it’s in pretty good hands at Tower Theatre, which almos...

Writer: Jon Brittain Director: Alex Mitchell Who knew the secret to happiness was a combination of Meatloaf and Winnie the Pooh, but for Sally they help her find an equilibrium after a period of depre...

Conductor: Marie Jacquot In a concert featuring two great romantic masterpieces, two bright stars, cellist Kian Soltani and conductor Marie Jacquot, each lead a part of the programme, allowing us to g...

Writer: David Ireland Director: Harry Burton Subtle in content and punchy in delivery, this timely, viscerally funny reiteration of David Ireland’s searing 2009 debut, written as the Belfast actor str...

Writer: Robin Taylor Director: Chris Neels How are you? Three little words that we say every day to almost everyone we meet. Yet, the question never really scratches the surface of what is going on in...

Writer: Inua Ellams Director: Roy Alexander Weise Few new plays arrive carrying the expectation Once Upon a Time in Sokoto does before a line is spoken. Inua Ellams’ account of the birth of Nigeria — ...

Choreographers: Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright We’re all familiar with the style of political interview with a senior politician that underpins Jess & Morgs’ latest dance piece, DEEPFAKE. T...

Writer: Noël Coward Director:  Emily Burns Director Emily Burns is known for bold, contemporary revivals of classics. Sheridan’s The Rivals was reimagined as a Second World War farce in Jack Absolute ...

Choreographer: Pam Tanowitz There’s something very postmodern about Pastoral, Pam Tanowitz’s new dance, currently at the Barbican. Her choreography dissects classical ballet steps into their rawest as...

Writer: Salman Rushdie Director: Alex Gibney The auditorium at the Chautauqua Institute in New York State, where Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture on 12 August 2022, looks half-empty when ...

Directors: Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu This chilling documentary will make you think twice when you next put the kettle on to make tea. Kikuyu Land exposes the hard lives of Kenyan tea-pickers wh...

Writer: Edward Albee Director: Marianne Elliott The vast amphitheatre of @sohoplace could not be a better setting for the gladiatorial Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Once, legions would have gathered...

Choreographer: Carlos Chamorro Traditional flamenco performances are usually sensual, fierce, full of passion and often quite serious in nature, but Yllana Productions takes the art form and transform...

Writer: George Orwell Adaptor: Dov Citron Director: Victoria Keegan Dov Citron’s snappy one-hour adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a little gem. Citron plays all the parts, starting with Mr...

Book: Kate Prince and Priya Parmar Music: Josh Cohen and DJ Walde Lyrics: Kate Prince Director: Kate Prince Sylvia Pankhurst is not, for most audiences, a name that sits alongside her mother Emmeline ...

Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Michael Stewart Book: Mark Bramble Director: Jonathan O’Boyle When it comes to a musical version of the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, there is an elephant in the room – and ...

Writer: Robert Chelsey Director: Henry Adams The erotic thrill of late-night phone calls morphs into an intimate connection between strangers. Desires, hopes, and fears are laid bare against a precari...

Writer: James Graham Director: Nicholas Hytner Living a good life on your own terms takes writer James Graham in three slightly separate directions in his new play The Standard of Living, opening at t...

Writer: Ryan Dre Sinclair Director: Desree No Photos, written and performed by Ryan Dre Sinclair, is a confessional spoken word piece examining how photography can have emotional relevance in an era o...