The LaBute New Theatre Festival features three grimly plausible one-act plays by the writer

Ishy Din’s new play revolves around a medium-sized taxi firm run by Pakistani immigrants

Jonathan O’Boyle’s production never quite overcomes the musical’s lack of focus

Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf are among the superstars brought back to life in Bernadette Robinson’s vivid performance

Talk of ‘end times’ from a US critic prompts Richard Fairman to consider the health of this once-great art form

The actor-manager’s second season of plays resonate with a time of great national upheaval

Two shows exemplify the range and depth of this annual festival

School-based drama makes its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

A halfway house full of misfits is the setting for Abby Rosebrock’s new play

The season at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre goes back to the playwright’s beginnings

The Memphis-born writer continues to bear witness to black lives — whether in Tennessee or Rwanda

A new production explores the fertile terrain between VR, augmented reality and immersive drama. But will this kind of storytelling ever truly take off?

Based on the popular film series, this show starring Danny and Dani Dyer and Jo Brand is cheerily over the top

Lavish spectacle, filthy humour and contemporary concerns mingle in the capital’s pantomimes

Lynn Nottage’s magnificent play at the Donmar Warehouse shows the personal cost of geopolitical shifts

Joe Hill-Gibbins sets Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Richard the Second in a dimly lit metal box

Sharon D. Clarke is magnificent in the title role of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s musical

Danai Gurira’s drama in an electrifying staging at the Young Vic, London

Kathryn Hunter stars in a strong production of Shakespeare’s bleak, underrated drama at the Swan Theatre

Snowflake, Old Fire Station; The Messiah, The Other Palace; and Aladdin, Hackney Empire

Jeff Daniels is a muddled Atticus Finch in this meddlesome adaptation at the Sam S Shubert Theatre

This complex moral drama tackles a topical debate about remorse and retribution

James Gibbs updates The Turn of the Screw for the digital age