Theatre: The Five Best Plays In London
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Good Donmar Warehouse
Starring Charles Dance, CP Taylor's play about accommodations with conscience is revived in an immaculate and sensitive production by Michael Grandage. To 22 May
2
Forbidden Broadway Jermyn St Theatre
Deliciously spiteful and tremendously funny selection of musical- theatre spoofs from Sondheim to The Lion King via Elaine Paige, by a crackerjack cast of four plus piano. To 6 May
3
Gross Indecency Gielgud Theatre
The artfully fractured form of Moises Kaufman's compelling play about Oscar Wilde presents the writer - man and symbol - in all his complex contradictoriness. Booking to 5 Jun
4
Troilus and Cressida Olivier Theatre
This theatre and this Shakespeare play are made for each other, a fact proved, somewhat belatedly, by the masterly sweep of Trevor Nunn's gifted production. To 9 May
5
Copenhagen Duchess Theatre
Michael Frayn's profound and haunting meditation on science, morality and the mysteries of human motivation. To 7 Aug
... And Beyond
Volpone Swan Theatre, Stratford
Comedies don't come funnier or more astringent than Ben Jonson's brilliant dissection of avaricious, over-reaching egotism. Comic genius Guy Henry is the treacherous parasite. To 9 Oct
2
A Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
In Michael Boyd's beguiling staging, Josette Simon's Amazonian Titania is sex-on-very-long-legs and could devour Tina Turner for breakfast. To 9 Oct
3
Colombe Salisbury Playhouse
Up-and-coming director Jonathan Church signs off at Salisbury with the characteristically bold and imaginative choice of an Anouilh comedy set in Paris's theatrical demi-monde. Ends tonight
4
Uncle Vanya Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Gregory Floy stars in the Chekhov classic - the second leg of the Mercury Theatre's brave experiment in forming a resident ensemble of actors for nine months of each year. To 24 April
5
The White Devil Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
A dab hand at playing women with a past, Gabrielle Drake portrays the imperious, determined "White Devil" in Webster's lurid Jacobean tragedy. To May
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