A Wee Home from Home

Each episode is led by Marra’s sardonic but meltingly lovely songs, with a few phrases from Glasgow songs thrown in

Will this black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof be lucky in London?

An all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sold out on Broadway. Can it find the same success in the West End?

The Tartuffe/ The Trial

Sometimes performers creep up on you from behind; you know when because you can smell their heavy make-up

The Habit of Art

There are funny lines galore, a hilarious episode in which Auden mistakes Carpenter for the male tart he’s ordered

Rumpelstiltskin

Even the poor and oppressed become corrupted and venal when they get a whiff of gold. Brecht would have loved it

Salad Days

The key to the success of this production is the casting and, of course, the delightful songs

Mixed up North

Robin Soans’s play is set in a drama club for young people in Burnley, Lancashire, where the BNP has influence

The 50 best Christmas shows

The finest theatre and dance for December, from the Nutcracker to A Christmas Carol, from The Lion King to Aladdin

Charlotte Riley stars on stage in The Priory

Actress also played Cathy in ITV's adaptation of Wuthering Heights and Maggie in The Take, based on Martina Cole's book

Uncle Vanya

Some Vanyas are fighters, like Peter O’Toole, but Simon Armstrong's Vanya is a born failure wading into suffering

The Entertainer

Director Greg Hersov feels it’s time for a revival of John Osborne’s 1957 play about Britain's role in the world

It’s festival time at Edinburgh's Traverse. Again

The event aims to enrich the busy theatre’s reputation as a hub for specialist art forms

Gilbert revival from life before Sullivan

Long-forgotten play No Cards is being staged by an amateur operatic society after more than a century

Natura Morte

Two Russian troupes join a Glasgow group on an enigmatic journey that is haunting and often beautiful

I Found My Horn at Hampstead Theatre, NW3

Can there be any better way for a man to face the ominous approach of middle age than with a French horn in his hand?

The Kreutzer Sonata

Based on one of the world’s most upsetting masterworks, this adaptation retains much of its mad, misogynist power

Autobahn

LaBute’s writing, as ever, pack a deceptive punch, each impeccably written section reveals an ever more complex and uncomfortable back story

We Will Rock You at the Playhouse, Edinburgh

The company offered a gaudy, extravagant, spectacular that Freddie Mercury and his bandmates would have been proud of

Why British theatre is booming

Despite the recession and the gloomy predictions of the doom-mongers, the British stage is enjoying the best of times