Dominic Cavendish

Isabel Adomakoh Young is an exuberant Juliet, but elsewhere the triumphs are fitful in this uncertain, overly stark production

Taking the Government to court is a last resort for a weary sector, but perhaps the only way for the pilot event data to finally be revealed

This stage version of the great Welsh ‘play for voices’ is a sensuous portrayal of care-home residents being swept up in memories

The 82-year-old is the oldest Prince of Denmark this country has seen – but when his Hamlet springs to revenge, the years slip away

Lisa Dwan, a formidable interpreter of Beckett’s work, has the audience spellbound in this 60th-anniversary production

The return of Michael Frayn’s 1998 modern classic is always welcome, and even if the approach isn’t new, the three-hander plays out tautly

The government’s four-week delay to Step Four is ‘devastating and disappointing’, say leading producers and theatre-owners

The return of the NT is a cause for celebration, even if Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Kirokazu Kore-eda’s film isn’t as rich as hoped

Composer pledges to defy Government and open ‘come hell or high water’ if lockdown restrictions are not lifted as planned on June 21

Fresh monologues by leading actors revive the strange episode in 1961 when the Nobel Laureate came to Kent to marry his mistress in secret

This deserved revival of Alfred Fagon’s pioneering play shows his remarkable way with words, but the characterisation is too flimsy

The plot is too complex and the accents are dippy, but it’s hard not to enjoy this stage version of the widely-loved 2001 romcom

This one-man performance of the great 20th-century poet’s most inscrutable work makes for a magnetic piece of live theatre

Political correctness has unfairly consigned this innuendo-packed farce to obscurity. Is there a director brave enough to bring it back?

The Telegraph’s investigation into student ‘mistreatment’ at some UK drama schools suggests the problem has deep roots

Gemma Arterton stars in this fresh and ambitious new play, the first work at the Harold Pinter Theatre in more than a year

The acting union’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proves it has lost the plot

Our critics choose this summer’s must-see stage shows, from Singin’ in the Rain at Sadler’s Wells, to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical

Just as culture-lovers thought it was safe to return, draconian rules forced a whole production to close down on an absurd pretext

The 1,000th performance of the coming-out musical was a lively, cathartic affair that swept our critic’s reservations away