A play that defies explanation, yet still grips — thanks largely to its two central performances

Kwame Kwei-Armah’s first production as artistic director is a lively musical adaptation of Shakespeare

This community production featuring a cast of 120 is an impressive achievement

There’s stylised violence, but Michael Boyd’s staging focuses on the high-flown rhetoric of Marlowe’s drama

Fiona Laird’s production introduces new elements that chime deliciously with the spirit of Shakespeare’s play

Rory Mullarkey’s new drama depicts chaos through uncertainty and colliding genres

The humorist presides over an evening of long-forgotten music from Germany

This drama about the migrant camp is designed for maximum impact

The Poldark star revels in the insanity of Martin McDonagh’s darkly funny Troubles-set play

Jemma Kennedy’s play has many entertaining strands which don’t quite tie together

Keen is first-rate as Leontes and is matched by the underrated Sirine Saba as Paulina

Cordelia Lynn’s play challenges cleverly challenges a range of liberal assumptions

English National Opera brightens up its summer with this shrewd revival of the musical

Anna Deavere Smith’s solo piece is a coruscating indictment of the US’s school-to-prison pipeline

Arthur Miller’s last play reflects on his disintegrating relationship with Monroe

A production that returns to its source material in Muriel Spark’s 1960 novel

Winsome Pinnock’s 1980s play about immigration and Englishness continues to resonate

Candidates for a senior post are pitted against each other in Jordi Galceran’s play

The festival featured productions in German, English — and Swedish-based gobbledegook

Relationships rather than events are at the heart of Barney Norris’s drama

Joe Penhall’s play investigates power and paradoxes in the pop music industry

Erica Whyman’s intriguing staging at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre highlights contemporary issues

A fluid, enjoyable production of actor Natasha Gordon’s first play

Adrienne Warren gives a committed performance as Tina Turner, but the show itself lacks nuance

Plenty of talk but few conclusions in David Hare’s play about the birth of Glyndebourne opera house