Chris Bartlett

Read our review of Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: richly evocative production of Stoke playwright Arthur Berry’s lost final play

Read our review of Public Interest at Loading Bay, Bradford. Common/Wealth's immersive production calls out a practice responsible for hundreds of convictions

Read our review of Spitfire Girls at Derby Theatre. Directed by Seán Aydon, this touching drama illuminates the work of the women who flew Air Force planes during the Second World War

Read our review of Abigail’s Party at Manchester's Royal Exchange: director Natalie Abrahami's imaginatively staged revival of Mike Leigh’s 1970s comedy classic

Read our review of A Matter of Life and Death review at New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: Magical adaptation captures the charm and romanticism of the classic film

Read our review of Glorious! at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. Starring Wendi Peters as Florence Foster Jenkins, this revival of Peter Quilter's 2005 play is riotously funny

Frothily funny, if conventional take on Noël Coward’s haunted-house comedy by HER Productions and Hannah Ellis Ryan, starring Peter Stone and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu

Directed by Sarah Brigham, and starring Wiliam Young, Luke Richards and Liam King, this stripped-back, faithful adaptation taps into the emotional core of John Steinbeck’s tragic tale

Annette Badland, Maureen Beattie and Danielle Henry star in director Sarah Frankcom’s compelling, atmospheric revival of two of Caryl Churchill’s uncompromisingly oblique one-act plays

Atmospheric, strikingly staged, high-quality musical version of the Dickens classic from directors Joseph Houston and William Whelton and Hope Mill Theatre, adapted by Mike Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens