Shrek The Musical (touring) ★★★★
The monster hit Shrek The Musical is on a UK tour but will it make you happy ever after?
Theatre
Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick ★★★★★
The Recs’ Iain Terry eyes SLEEPING BEAUTY TAKES A PRICK, a brand-new adult pantomime at Charing Cross Theatre
Macbeth – Donmar Warehouse ★★★★★
Max Webster’s psychologically-astute production of Macbeth is an unnerving revelation
The Woman In Black (touring) ★★★★
After 33 years haunting the West End, Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black embarks on a UK tour
The Girl In The Green Room ★★★★★
The Bridge House Theatre offers a spooky new drama by Luke Adamson – The Girl In The Green Room – that guarantees plenty of theatrical thrills.
King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company) ★★★
Kenneth Branagh plays the title role and directs this decidedly-different new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Hamnet ★★★★
The RSC’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s evocative novel Hamnet arrives in London’s West End
Flowers For Mrs Harris ★★★★★
Paul Gallico’s much-loved 1958 novella Mrs ‘arris Goes To Paris receives a tender, musical adaptation for the stage as Flowers For Mrs Harris
The Standard Short Long Drop ★★★
Rachel Garnet’s two-hander about a pair of cell mates in Victorian York gets a London premiere in a new theatre space
Havisham ★★★★★
Heather Alexander’s one-woman show, Havisham, offers a fresh perspective of Charles Dickens’ iconic Great Expectations character