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South Downs/ The Browning Version

Rattigan's classic and David Hare's response triumph in a double bill transfer to the capital

Love, Love, Love, Royal Court - review

A piercingly funny satire that takes a pop at the baby boomers who failed to change world

Brimstone and Treacle, Arcola

Rupert Friend in an absorbing version of the comedy once deemed too shocking for TV

Top Hat, Aldwych - review

A frivolous reworking of Fred Astaire's song and dance with Tom Chambers

FIRST NIGHT: The Sunshine Boys, Savoy

In his West End debut, Danny Devito makes this revival of Neil Simon's seventies comedy a hot ticket.

FIRST NIGHT: A Marvellous Year for Plums, Chichester Theatre

A Marvellous Year for Plums

In another drama about the Suez Crisis, writer Hugh Whitemore stumbles along a well worn path.

What the Butler Saw, Vaudeville - review

What the Butler Saw

An anarchic attack on traditional Englishness as Omid Djalili, Tim McInnery and Samantha Bond star in Joe Orton's anti-farce.

Detroit, National's Cottesloe - review

Detroit

Lisa D’ Amour’s shrewdly observed play finds both comedy and pathos in the decay of the suburbs.

Rambert Dance Company/L’Après-midi d’un faune/ What Wild Ecstasy, Sadler’s Wells - review

What Wild Ecstasy

Celebrating his 10th anniversary as artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, Mark Baldwin offers his modern-day take on Nijinsky's 100-year-old ballet.

A Slow Air, Tricycle Theatre - review

A Slow Air

David Harrower’s low-key but richly rewarding two-hander with Lewis Howden and Susan Vidler.

Critics' choice: five best theatre

Our critics pick their top shows of the moment...

Globe to Globe: 37 plays in 37 pictures

A new picture as each production is performed in the Globe’s season of 37 plays in 37 languages.

Bring on the Wah! Wah! Girls
Wah Wah! Girls

The classical mujra dancers of 16th-century India have been turned into pole dancers in contemporary Britain, writes Tanika Gupta, whose new musical plays with the theme.

The great Gatsby renaissance
The Great Gatsby

Based on a cover-to-cover reading of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby — with two intervals — Gatz is the latest in extreme theatre, says Fiona Mountford.

Babel, Caledonian Park - review

A promenade performance as part of the World Stages programme that severely lacks definition.

Snow White/Ballet Preljocaj, Sadler’s Wells - review

A fetish twist on a fairytale classic as Prelijocaj lets his imagination run away with him with spectacular results.

Top Hat, Aldwych - review

Top Hat

Tom Chambers shows off his footwork alongside Summer Strallen in this enjoyably frivolous reworking of Fred Astaire's song and dance.

Close the Coalhouse Door, Richmond Theatre - review

Close the Coalhouse Door

Fiery music and politics in Lee Hall's reworking of this poignant portrait of pit life.

Love, Love, Love, Royal Court Downstairs - review

Love, Love, Love

Mike Bartlett's piercingly funny satire, with Claire Foy, takes a pop at the baby boomers who failed to change world.

Three Kingdoms, Lyric Hammersmith - review

At times visionary, at times overwrought, Simon Stephen's new play looks at the gruesome sex trade.

Tamara Rojo: ‘I danced in private for George Osborne’
Tamara Rojo

The Royal Ballet’s principal ballerina, tells Jasmine Gardner about her special show at Number 11, how the company failed Sergei Polunin and her new job at the ENB.

David Suchet prepares for a roaring success as Aslan the giant lion
David Suchet

David Suchet prepares to record his voice for a new stage version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

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