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James Graham’s show is a hit; more national soul-searching in ‘Henry V’; Royal Court launches memory play ‘Baghdaddy’
The director’s new adaptation of ‘Orlando’ comes at a critical moment for conversations about gender fluidity
Plus: ‘Pickle’ is a sparky one-woman show; ‘Dinner with Groucho’ is hard work
The actor and director on her year in Oxford, ‘the power of story’ and the Netflix show’s transformative legacy
Plus: ‘Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World’ is a metatheatrical treat and ‘The Sex Party’ disappoints
As his Gore Vidal vs William F Buckley Jr drama hits the West End, the playwright reflects on ‘making sense of the world’ through art
Martin Crimp asks unsettling questions at the Royal Court; an all-black cast in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’; wartime spy story ‘Noor’
Also opening on the London stage: ‘Mary’ at the Hampstead Theatre and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Frantic self-awareness is folded into a barrage of gags with the energy of solo stand-up thanks to star Billy Eichner
With book by James Graham and lyrics from Jake Shears, the show about a televangelist is a camp riot
Also: ‘A Single Man’ at Park Theatre distills grief and ‘Elephant’ at the Bush Theatre is a gem of a show
Also opening in London: an Arab-Israeli musical meeting in The Band’s Visit; Afghan refugee tale The Boy With Two Hearts
The genre-defying star was known for the range and depth of her scene-stealing roles
Following an acclaimed staging of the poem cycle, the actor is now breathing life into the difficult verse for BBC4
Also opening in London: Juliet Stevenson under fire in ‘The Doctor’ and angry portrait of austerity ‘Iphigenia in Splott’
An eclectic line-up features a gritty postwar masterpiece and a site-specific diptych paying homage to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Colour-blind casting provokes strong feelings but this debate about ethnicity is missing a key issue
Also opening in London: ‘The Crucible’ at the National, and Simon Russell Beale in the Bridge Theatre’s ‘John Gabriel Borkman’
Playwright Rona Munro returns to her series of portraits of Stewart monarchs at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Tom Morton-Smith on adapting Studio Ghibli’s beloved movie with puppets, music and a giant, furry cat-bus
Also opening in London: Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court and The P Word at the Bush Theatre
New drama staged in Dublin examining the novelist’s female relations brims with energy but is uneven
David Tennant plays a German academic losing his grip on morality during the Nazi era in Cooke’s staging of ‘Good’
We shine a light on Kyiv’s creatives, modern muses and the greatest show on Broadway . . .
Rising costs and falling global tourism undermine the business of spectacular musicals
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