Mother Courage and Her Children – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★★
Disturbingly relevant, Anna Jordan translates ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ for a Brechtian debut at The Globe.
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An Ideal Husband – Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
Nicholai La Barrie breathes new life into ‘An Ideal Husband’ with masses of magnificence.
Derrière on a G String ★★★★
Some Smith & Moore present ‘Derrière on a G String’: a 75-minute dance-fuelled fever dream featuring street scammers, tap shoes, and buckets of homoeroticism.
Avenue Q – Shaftesbury Theatre ★★★★★
Three-time Tony Award-winning puppet-fuelled parody ‘Avenue Q’ returns to the West End in all its riotous glory.
Inter Alia ★★★
Following the major sell-out of Prima Facie, ‘Inter Alia’ by Suzie Miller acts as its companion piece, exploring contemporary themes certain to divide.
John Proctor is the Villain ★★★★★
American playwright Kimberly Belflower overwrites ‘The Crucible’ for this feminist tale of teenage liberation.
Summerfolk – National Theatre ★★★★★
‘Summerfolk’ screams relevance inside Gorky’s dilapidated dacha.
Ruth – Wilton’s Music Hall ★★
The iconic Wilton’s Music Hall houses ‘Ruth: The Musical’, a new production that aims to undo prejudice around the Ruth Ellis tragedy.
R.O.I. (Return On Investment) ★★★★★
In his UK debut, ‘Return On Investment’, Californian playwright Aaron Loeb satirises the plausible.
Yentl – Marylebone Theatre ★★★
‘Yentl’, a Kadimah Yiddish Theatre Production, tries a Gothic adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1962 novel.