Ella Road’s cautionary drama is set in an all-too-plausible future

With new music by Mark Knopfler, this stage adaptation of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film is a delight

Mathematicians Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould star in a droll two-hander at the Barbican Pit, London

Following the hit ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’, Ellams prepares to open his new play ‘The Half God of Rainfall’

RSC production flips the genders of characters to create a world with its own rules and inconsistencies

The playwright tackles contemporary race relations with the subtlety of a blunderbuss

The performances at London’s National Theatre are largely flawless, though the play has its problems

John Guare’s zany new play is packed with dizzyingly clever references

Headlong production fails to light up £18.8m restored space

At London’s Trafalgar Studio 1, Joshua Harmon’s play sets out to examine of the difficulties of liberalism

The final production of London’s magnificent Pinter at the Pinter season digs deep into ideas of identity, need and certainty

Florian Zeller’s drama about a family under pressure makes its New York debut at the Linda Gross Theater

Bouncy tunes and a strong narrative propel this musical set in a diner

Informed but not constrained by contemporary psychology, the story retains a mythical quality here — a haunting sense of despair

Thirty years after Steppenwolf’s high-octane work debuted in London, the US ensemble is back with a different tack

Hilarious, bawdy and laced with sadness, this one-woman show portrays of the isolation and hedonism of contemporary London

This pioneering production is performed entirely by women of colour

With its gripping plot, a tart and social critique and a great central role, you can see why Nicholas Hytner brought this popular novel to the stage

A piece of biting social commentary at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York

The absence of a proper villain further exacerbates this musical’s lack of bite

Florian Zeller’s moving new play at London’s Kiln Theatre is a plea for better listening — and it’s agony to watch

This production, at the Robert M. Wilson MCC Theater Space in New York, sheds the books’ dark undertones but adds an understated pathos

Athol Fugard’s portrait of dispossession and despair resonates in New York, where homelessness has soared