Clive Davis

Ben Platt, star of the Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen, pours his soul into a new play at the Menier Chocolate Factory by KPop Demon Hunters writer Mark Sonnenblick

Irvine Welsh’s adaptation at the Theatre Royal Haymarket doesn’t have as much visual panache as the film but has moments of communal intensity

From Trainspotting: The Musical to The Lives of Others starring Keira Knightley, our stages are packed with adaptations — we need new stories, argues our theatre critic

Sarah Kane’s play is unbearably bleak and, without depth, it’s impossible to see any logic to the plight of the characters subjected to violence

From Jack Dee’s one-liners to the new Fleabag, and from Lorde to San Francisco Ballet, these are the hottest tickets for August at the Fringe and beyond

A reworking of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Edinburgh International Festival doesn’t quite convince you that there’s any doubt about the verdict

The RSC’s theatre adaptation of the George RR Martin tales is plodding, with cheap-looking effects and some questionable acting

At Summerhall, Hannah Reilly’s Fringe solo drama about a feminist podcaster who decides that sex sells is confident but more predictable than it should be

Suri Noelle, Tom Cruise’s daughter, stars in a new Fringe show — plus our round-up of all the shows at the Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival

The actor’s every pause, every hesitation, every bumbled phrase is a delight in this Old Vic revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 marital comedy