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A visionary who revolutionised how we stage Shakespeare, he left his native Britain to travel in search of ‘outside contexts’
Richard Bean and Oliver Chris have given Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ a modern twist but warn: ‘It’s not just a fluffy laugh factory’
Also opening on the London stage: Mad House at the Ambassadors, and Roy Williams’s new drama The Fellowship at the Hampstead Theatre
Also opening in London: A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Donmar Warehouse; That Is Not Who I Am at the Royal Court
This lively show at the Park Theatre, London, is an unsubtle portrait of the Labour leader
The RSC leader on staging the play with a disabled actor in the title role, the loss of his husband Antony Sher and stepping down after 10 years
Three interrelated plays set in a factory will run simultaneously on different stages in an ambitious take on a world riven by culture wars and blame games
Plus two more classically themed plays on the London stage: Britannicus at the Lyric Hammersmith; Girl on an Altar at the Kiln
A new theatre opening in July is already attracting businesses to Prescot on Merseyside
Also on the London stage: Legally Blonde in the open air; Henry VIII at Shakespeare’s Globe
Also opening on the London stage: two Palestinians go dogging, Royal Court; My Fair Lady at the Coliseum
She plays a bruised matriarch in Beth Steel’s state-of-the-nation play at the Almeida. Plus: The Breach at Hampstead Theatre
Nick Payne’s play takes on theoretical physics, beekeeping and love in its Irish premiere
Marital strife in Middle at the National Theatre and Ivo van Hove’s grimly good Greek tragedy Age of Rage at the Barbican
The award-winning writer’s 2019 play ‘The White Card’ — new to the UK — deals with art, race and America
Also opening on the London stage: Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin deals more or less successfully with racial stereotypes
Jez Butterworth’s drama is exhilarating, dazzling and darker than ever in a revival at the Apollo Theatre, London
Plus: ‘The Corn Is Green’ at the National Theatre; ‘Marys Seacole’ at the Donmar Warehouse
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s staging of the second and third parts of the historical trilogy moves from debate to open warfare
Renowned Metro al-Madina venue pushes on after being tested by Covid lockdowns and economic woes
Also opening on the London stage: an adaptation of Jane Austen’s persuasion — complete with foam-filled pool
Mike Bartlett’s bold new drama interweaves current political concerns with Shakespeare’s plays. Plus: ‘Daddy’ A Melodrama at the Almeida; For Black Boys . . . at the Royal Court
Also on the London stage: Alexis Zegerman’s family drama The Fever Syndrome
The actress on playing a trailblazing teacher on stage in period drama ‘The Corn Is Green’ and the return of her hit TV show ‘The Split’
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