1 MINE

Alistair Petrie and Lorraine Stanley star in Shared Experience’s production of Polly Teale’s story of a couple who have everything – except the baby they so yearn.
Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 (www.hampsteadtheatre.com 020-7722 9301), opens Thur, until Oct 25

2 NO MAN’S LAND

Michael Gambon, David Bradley and David Walliams appear in Harold Pinter’s fascinating play about the opportunist bohemian who tries to take over the house and mind of a rich alcoholic.
Duke of York’s, St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (www.theambassadors.com/dukeofyorks 0870 0606623), opens Tues, until Jan 3, 2009

3 THE NORMAN CONQUESTS

A major revival for one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most enterprising and darkly comedic works: three self-sufficient plays that evoke the same fraught weekend from the stance of three different rooms.
Old Vic, The Cut, SE1 (www.oldvictheatre.com 0870 0606628), opens Mon

4 AUGUSTA

Alan Franks’s latest play is a comedy of manners – which involves a Brazilian entrepreneur and his biographer – that develops into a scary exploration of the past.
New End, 27 New End, NW3 (www.newendtheatre.co.uk 0870-033-2733), opens Fri

5 RADIO GOLF

The British premiere for the last of the late great August Wilson’s cycle of black-history plays, each of which presents a dramatisation of one decade in America’s 20th century.
Tricycle, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 (www.tricycle.co.uk 0207-328-1000), opens Mon.