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Arthur Miller’s last play reflects on his disintegrating relationship with Monroe
Tragicomic spectacle on grandest stage
Plus: an interview with dancer-choreographer Akram Khan
The cast navigates playwright Kate Scelsa’s zany twist on Edward Albee with deadpan flair
FT critics review the latest and best shows in the West End, across the capital and the UK
A production that returns to its source material in Muriel Spark’s 1960 novel
A stylish staging of Sophie Treadwell’s groundbreaking 1928 play
The profession is criticised for being a bastion of the privileged, but efforts are under way to encourage diversity
Paterson Joseph’s one-man show portrays the eventful life of an 18th-century black British man
The 72nd theatre awards in charts: financial winners and trophy winners stand apart
For all its psychological and political acuity, Carrie Cracknell’s production lacks impact
‘In hindsight, booking tickets for the show in the middle of exams was not a triumph of planning’
The intricacies of Elizabeth Strout’s novel remain intact in the hands of adapter Rona Munro and director Richard Eyre
Emily Schwend’s prize-winning play is a subtle portrait of the ‘just about managing’
A provocative double bill takes in an account of imprisonment in Turkey and the disappearance of Mexican students
The actor takes the lead role of preening cop-cum-hitman in Tracy Letts’s twisted study of Texan family ties
A verbatim play about fatherhood that’s all the stronger for being aware of its own limitations
Winsome Pinnock’s 1980s play about immigration and Englishness continues to resonate
A birthday party full of gay men descends into cruel jibing in this tightly wound staging of Mart Crowley’s play at the Booth Theatre
Brian Friel’s play is a masterpiece, though its delicacies are not well suited to this theatre
Nina Raine’s well-timed drama explores rape, legality and morality
This ‘dance play’ adaptation at the Vineyard Theatre is a jaunty, raunchy melodramatic spectacle
A reimagining framed by first world war hospital scenes that feed into the fantasy
Candidates for a senior post are pitted against each other in Jordi Galceran’s play
Sweden’s leading playwright on individual moments, the rising tide of populism and actors ruining themselves
