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With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation ...

There are spirited singalongs aplenty and fun and games with audience interaction in this warm and colourful panto - albeit not a lot of complexity or cross-generational appeal ...

Theresa Heskins's Dumas adaptation provides fantastic action yet reduces the scheming servant Milady to a plot device ...

This 'rock'n'roll' panto is far from Grimm, but not in a good way ...

An on-off romance is all tumbling dialogue and tiny details in Eleanor Tindall's agile new play. Plus, a grooming scandal tale seen through the eyes of British-Pakistani women ...

Come out to play with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis's star-studded concept album or enjoy an improvised movie from the Goes Wrong team ...

The Irish choreographer and his company, Tea Dasa, weave dances of folksy complexity in their stirring, absurdist new production ...

As reprisals against Pakistani men suspected of abuse rage outside, one family is trapped at home where we are sped through the many issues this raises ...

Justin Greene and the late Steve Brown's musical about a working-class woman who wins big on the pools and blows the lot is given a moving dream twist ...

Gatwa's Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy's subversive queerness ...