Sarah Hemming

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and Nadi Kemp-Sayfi excel in Eleanor Tindall’s wittily observed romance at London’s Bush Theatre

Simon Stone relocates Aeschylus’s tragedy to the present day in a shattering play about war and inherited trauma at London’s Bridge Theatre

A 1960s New York nightclub is the setting for a bittersweet musical about past love at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory

Helen Hunt and Bill Pullman also star in an RSC production full of insight but lacking Chekhov’s poignancy

Emma Rice’s deliciously old-school staging of Enid Blyton’s books lights up London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre

This new production at London’s Almeida Theatre sheds a light on human cruelty — and is an ordeal to watch

Dance adds a welcome dash to one of Shakespeare’s more laborious comedies

Phelim McDermott brings his playful, profound investigation into the power of music and theatre to London’s Soho Place

The 1969 comedy about three troubled couples gets a smart revival at London’s Old Vic starring Roger Allam

A Tokyo teen is given the power to take life in a riotous adaptation at the Barbican that offers spectacle over subtlety