Nick Ferris

The latest at the Royal Court Upstairs is a comedy that skilfully holds humour in uneasy tension with its characters’ pain

The humour still works, but in Chichester Festival Theatre’s revival, this tale of a housewife’s fraying mental health has lost its bite

This verbatim recreation of the inquiry into the Grenfell disaster has a political pertinence that transcends the realm of entertainment

McSweeney dives wholheartedly into Beckett’s celebrated satire on human desperation, though the play’s sadness doesn’t quite fully register

This telling of Lewis Carroll’s famous novel opts for a wacky approach – with mixed but generally rewarding results

Despite top-notch comic performances, this play about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? cheating scandal isn’t as clever as it thinks

Joanna Woodward is a strong lead and the stage effects are super, but Audrey Niffenegger’s novel translates awkwardly into musical theatre

With just a few tweaks, this ebullient and irresistible satire on the famous Disney animation could well become a staple of the London stage

Returning to the role that won her an Olivier Award, Gough has lost none of her power in bringing this complicated antiheroine to life