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Three Christmas shows offer respite from election fever
Ambitious production of Nazi-era play offers chilling parallels with the US of today
Showing at the Bush Theatre, the drama is an impressive writing debut
Three much-loved books are brought to the stage
The playwright’s 1985 drama is a laboured history lesson
The director on why Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi completes a trilogy begun with Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke
Drama that uses minimal resources to tell the story of newspaper editor Can Dundar
The founders of a new theatre company have created an innovative model that uses the audience’s online information
Why the best new West End shows are the ones that take risks
The playwright talks about 1972’s bad-tempered Spassky-Fischer contest and turning it into a cold war thriller
A German-language adaptation of the author’s autobiographical bestseller proves shockingly vivid
Matthew Lopez’s drama, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, tells the epic story of three generations of gay men
Richard Eyre’s razzle-dazzle staging at the Prince Edward Theatre highlights the story’s emotional core
Michael Benjamin Washington delivers a cacophony of voices in a one-man show at New York’s Pershing Square Signature Center
The Game of Thrones star plays the poet-warrior of the title in this musical adaptation
The choreographer’s work — of which there is currently a flurry in New York — distils the African-American experience
Three plays put faith, dogma and power in the spotlight
The dramatist shortlisted for this year’s Pulitzer Prize discusses intimacy, oversharing and her new play Dirty Crusty
The actress talks about her role in Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ and why she likes playing ‘villainesses’
Memory, loss and storytelling are the threads that link these shows
Three London shows tackle big questions about the Earth and motherhood with humour and compassion
The American disavows political theatre and explains why he goes to such lengths to build authenticity
A lively but digressive excursion through the Talking Heads singer’s repertoire at the Hudson Theatre
As ‘Death of a Salesman’ returns to the London stage, the actor talks politics, prejudice and the power of art
Two new shows explore watery planets — an alien one, and our own
