Stranger Things's David Harbour stars in a darkly comic play about his own mental health
The actor returns to the West End to play a grouchy son caring for his unlikeable father, but the jokes make it hard to engage emotionally
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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
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
The Convert: a dramatic show of the horrors of British ‘conversion therapy’
This sucker-punch of a play, at Vauxhall’s Above the Stag, has a troubling contemporary resonance, if scant momentum as a theatrical work
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
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
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
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
The Unfriend, Chichester, review: is Steven Moffat the new Alan Ayckbourn?
Frances Barber is terrific in the Sherlock creator's effortlessly entertaining debut play
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
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
Corrina, Corrina, review: a pressure-cooker drama on the high seas
Chloë Moss’s play at the Liverpool Everyman has its flaws, but the trials of being a woman in a macho environment are powerfully conveyed
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Julius Caesar full of cowardice, vanity and rent-a-cause politics – anyone we know?
This modern-dress production has a fine cast but needs more political momentum