Jodie and Mike are getting married with all the familiar trimmings – wayward stag night, last-night jitters, irritating in-laws – but Maureen Lennon calls out the hidden misogyny

With its irresistible harmonies, this comedy about a blood-guzzling plant has plenty to savour but it lacks satirical punch and menace

This engaging production makes the most of a small cast and minimal staging, but needs more urgency early on

Lydia Marchant’s sparky debut play about pregnancy and the cost of living finds three generations of mothers forced to share a flat

Updated for the era of remote learning, Godber’s 1987 work is still joyously energetic and bitter about systemic inequalities

One-liners and vernacular idiosyncrasies at the ready, the Hull-born One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean takes us back to 1971 and the founding of a local institution

From its origins 50 years ago in a clapped-out van and a house with broken furniture and feral cats, the theatre company won accolades and abuse in equal measure

The Railway Children reduces our critic to tears, and a topical take on The Wizard of Oz blows her away as festive family shows return with a bang

Kerry Godliman, Genevieve Barr, James Graham and more share memories of the theatres that changed their lives

Making Wendy younger gives a different dynamic to Deborah McAndrew’s engaging adaptation, with Baker Mukasa’s spontaneous Peter

A sumptuous choral score is key to this slick, polished production featuring an impressive female Fagin and tightly drilled young company

Nicholas Hytner’s outstanding production reconfigures Julius Caesar in more ways than one. Plus, James Graham and Moonlight’s Tarell Alvin McCraney