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Anti-corruption champion to examine Arts Council England projects and lack of facilities in some areas of country ...

Good sex, bad sex, the horror of aerobics and the tyranny of camcorders the actor writes about starring in Nobel-winner Annie Ernaux's memoir, our play of the year ...

Tove Jansson's beloved creations have their hibernation interrupted by snowball juggling and jolly ukulele tunes in this sweet adaptation ...

This recreation of Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic is frenetic fun, with the dinosaurs brought to life using physical comedy - and traffic cones ...

Olivier; Lyttelton; Dominion; Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAt the National, Noel Streatfeild's classic flies while Oscar Wilde's wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly faithful take on The Devil Wears Prada and a bijou Flaubert ...

As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare's melancholy comedy ...

Anne-Marie Duff is a ruthless fighter desperate to escape her marriage and home in a production which doesn't lack for conviction, but whose shocks and stings do not deliver ...

Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly production ...

The major showman takes a solo stroll through show tunes, sing alongs and seasonal hits with vocal highlights that leave you gasping for breath ...

The audience sees above and below the floorboards - with a little help from puppets - as Mark Babych's production cleverly plays with scale ...