Becky Brewis

Two sisters revisit their memories of growing up in the 1970s as Imogen Stubbs and Amanda Daniels star in Dermot Canavan's two-hander about discos, domestic violence and being a teenager. At Trafalgar Studios.

The mix of playfulness and mystery is beautiful – a compact piece of innovative theatre from this surreal puppet show for adults. At the Soho Theatre.

A superbly Dickensian setting is not enough to sustain this half-hearted musical version of A Christmas Carol. Antic Disposition tell the story of Scrooge to the tunes of classic Victorian carols, but despite the holly, mulled wine and mince pies, this isn't the festive treat it promises to be. At Middle Temple Hall.

Cinderella, this year's Lyric Hammersmith pantomime from writing duo Joel Horwood and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, could get away with half the laughs and still be completely brilliant. Everything about it is bigger and better than it needs to be – there's not one dame but two of them – as sophisticated comedy writing meets slapstick.

Award-winning playwright Nick Dear's latest play is a sensitive biography of the poet Edward Thomas, telling the story of his friendship with American poet Robert Frost. A strong cast and an intelligent script make this a hugely original take on the First World War and the changes it signalled for literature. At the Almeida.

Whether it makes you think of a place, a genre, a dream of stardom or somewhere for tourists to hide on wet days, London's West End is over 200 years old and here to stay. So what exactly is included in the term West End theatre? And what isn't?

Stacy is about intimacy and what we do with it; about relationships and the ordinary moments of trauma that leave their imprints on us, and about being exposed. Tim Dorsett brings Jack Thorne's script alive perfectly. At the New Diorama Theatre.

Do you know your transpontine from your Theatreland? Like the city, London's theatres have a layered history, with some surprising quirks: Brecht couldn't have broken the fourth wall if it hadn't been for Henry VIII's enjoyment of a game of real tennis. So how did we get to where we are today?

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An Incident at the Border, a new play by Kieran Lynn, is a comedy about what happens when a couple find that the park bench they are sitting on is now a national frontier - with them split either side of it. The circumstances are out of the ordinary but the situation is one everyone will recognise. At the Finborough Theatre.