Theatre

Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe teamed up to deliver a merry new version of Kenneth Grahame’s classic, staged at the London Palladium in 2017 with Rufus Hound wearing 50 shades of green as Mr Toad.

Evan Placey’s Girls Like That offers a raw account of adolescent anxiety, slut-shaming and self-belief. In-your-face theatre that stays in your mind.

Edward and Freddie Fox play father and son in An Ideal Husband, Eve Best is a memorable Mrs Arbuthnot in A Woman of No Importance, Kathy Burke directs Lady Windermere’s Fan and Sophie Thompson is horrified by theatre’s most famous handbag in The Importance of Being Earnest.

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Cheek by Jowl's production of this Shakespeare play

In this black comedy from the Royal Court, Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He is experiencing a psychotic episode and mistakes his five-week old granddaughter for Gerry Adams. Generations of sectarian trauma convince him that his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act.

Two households, both alike in dignity … well, sort of. Our narrator, a talking portrait, lays our scene in Victorian London and this musical comedy imagines the founding of the popular shoe repair chain as a union between two companies, the Montashoes and the Keypulets.