This new play about the life and death by hanging of Mary Bateman needs more meat

This lively but rambling new musical, with songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, follows Holmes and Watson as they solve the murders of the drummer, piper, lord, lady…

This Bradford city of culture commission based on Fiona Mozley’s novel is part Victorian melodrama part Grand Guignol gore

Jamie Bogyo’s promising but unrefined debut play explores the political climate of the 2016 Yale protests

A production at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum takes Chekhov at his word when he called the play ‘a comedy’

A play about abuses at Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham is deeply affecting, but needs wider contextualisation

Frantic Assembly’s 30th anniversary co-production, with Curve, shows the touring company’s weaknesses as well as its strengths

The playwright’s 91st play, Earth Angel, implicates the audience in its interrogation of trust in human goodness

Maxine Peake stars as the Christian moral crusader in a play that asks us to pass judgment without having the facts straight

Druid Theatre company’s spirited, soul-touching double bill conveys a powerful message

Laura Wade’s reworking of this sparkling comedy seems tailor-made for a West End transfer

How To Win Against History celebrates his supposedly wasted life

Theatr Clwyd reopens after a long closure with a rocking production of Jonathan Larson’s peppy three-hander. Shame, then, that downpour stopped play

Flora Wilson Brown’s new play unfolds in the past as well as near and far futures, with climate change the linking theme