David Benedict

Read our review of Eugene Onegin at the Grange Festival, Alresford: Max Webster directs a dramatically intense take on the Tchaikovsky work

Which productions most inspired our leading theatremakers? Sharon D Clarke chooses a searing verbatim play about the interpreters involved with post-apartheid trials

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Playwright Lucy Kirkwood selects a firm favourite that teams serious politics with slapstick comedy

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Director and playwright Nina Raine selects a production that made her laugh and then sob

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Director Jeremy Sams chooses a recent hit show that made him go back for more

Dancer Michela Meazza picks the play that most inspired her: Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel that became the talk of the theatre industry

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Toheeb Jimoh chooses a modern adaptation of a classic that he watched multiple times while working as an usher

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? West End and Broadway producer David Pugh selects the 1981 production of Dreamgirls in New York

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? West End and Broadway producer David Pugh selects the 1981 production of Dreamgirls in New York

For his favourite play, actor Ron Cook chooses director Robert Icke's reworking of Sophocles’ pivotal ancient drama starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville