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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’
Also in UK theatres: The Mozart Question in Cirencester; The Wellspring in Northampton
The playwright and director on how her unblinking movie ‘Bad Roads’, about Donbas, presaged the current war
‘The Burnt City’ is its most ambitious production yet, say its directors, with 100,000 sq ft of world-building
The show at London’s Bridge Theatre goes back to 1926 to spotlight legendary, controversial figure Robert Moses
Plus: tensions boil over at the Orange Tree Theatre in ‘Tom Fool’
After pandemic-induced delays, hundreds of locals are finally preparing to take the stage in Oberammergau’s latest Passion Play
Also on the London stage: Dennis Kelly’s After the End at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Huang Ruo’s mesmerising work of ‘vocal theatre’ is playing at St Ann’s Warehouse in New York
Also opening on the London stage: Kit Harington as a ruthless Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse
Covid lockdowns tested the impresario’s entrepreneurial skills
As his Broadway production opens in London, the US director on the importance of reappraising much-loved classics
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