For all its Broadway dazzle and gags, this musical’s story of midlife bereavement and a second chance at love carries intense feeling

Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

This adaptation has a luminous performance from Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy and some great ideas but throws too much at the audience

With typically charismatic fervour and to a star-studded audience, the master of heartbreak brilliantly honours her singular path through modern music

The clubbable comic casts himself as master of ceremonies in a self-effacing musical story of his life – with celeb mimicry

Chris and Rosie Ramsey’s material about their married life is jolly enough, but a five-minute advertorial is rather less so

Jason Robert Brown’s musical on the theme of life choices adapts well to social distancing, with a cast whose big voices make the huge auditorium feel small

From a fake riot to a brilliant staging of Frozen, the pop artist is at her most experimental – and intimate

Sheridan Smith and Jason Donovan bring glitzy charisma to a jubilant production – but neither can match the young dreamer at its centre

This chatshow canter through the career and comedy loves of Humphries proved he is an unrepentant stirrer