Dominic Maxwell

In his tenth play for the RSC, staged at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, the 76-year-old playwright looks at the fraying of mainstream politics

The actor’s rise to the top was fuelled by his upbringing in an ‘asylum for fatherless children’. He talks about anger, ambition and playing Oedipus

Stars aren’t enough to save this production. Plus, The Other Place at the National Theatre with Tobias Menzies, Emma D’Arcy and Alison Oliver

Based on Terry Ronald’s novel about a gay 16-year-old in 1979, this is a cartoonish but moving production

This gripping and wonderfully theatrical adaptation of the books is a must-see at the Park Theatre in north London

Only the third solo magician in 40 years to have his own West End season, Jamie Allan trumped expectations

The provocative comic begins a new tour at the York Barbican with jokes about Jimmy Savile, disabled children, sharia and Gandhi — it’s mostly a very tepid hour

The blind stand-up who is the bookies’ favourite to win the show talks to Dominic Maxwell about sambas, rehearsal room scandals and losing his sight

It counts Madonna, Kate Winslet and Jude Law among its fans — now the ‘life-changing’ cult hit You Me Bum Bum Train is back for the first time in eight years

Taking on Captain Mandrake and co was always going to be a risk — and it hasn’t paid off. Plus, Lily Collins, not as Emily in Paris but as Irene in Barcelona