Listings including text "national theatre"

Using film and stills, Peter Bobby’s work explores the relationship between the newly burgeoning high-rise developments and the city below.

Anorak has two definitions: the first is the waterproof coat. The second is a slang term for a socially inept person with a hobby considered by most people to be boring. The character of Marc Lépine may well have been considered an anorak on the outside, but this deep exploration of his psyche is fascinating. At the Lion and Unicorn.

It's impossible to review the stark song-cycle Ten Plagues without discussing its venue: Wilton's Music Hall, one of London's first grand halls, is every bit as scarred and decrepit as a survivor of the 1665 plague central to the piece. An ambitious one-man show, combining elements of music, theatre and opera and performed by Soft Cell star Marc Almond, this revival of Ravenhill's 2011 Edinburgh hit underlines its power.

I spend much of my professional time trafficking in forms of Japanese theatre that are predominantly contemporary but also, for want of a better adjective, essentially obscure to western audiences. Yet there’s one type of Japanese stage art that almost everyone seems to know, and that's Kabuki.

What do we really know about what goes on in the British armed forces? It's not something I think about a lot. Once upon a time, national service in this country was compulsory; there are some countries where it still is. But what happens when someone chooses to go into the army, and what happens when they come home? Glory Dazed expertly explores these questions and the result packs an enormous punch. At the Soho Theatre.

Nineveh takes the real-life stories of modern soldiers returning from war, fits them into four characters and drops them in the belly of a whale. Theatre Témoin’s new production uses true accounts of war to explore how those that return to civilian life must forever live with the consequences of their actions. At Riverside Studios. 

This is a beautiful, intimate adaptation. The music is stunning, the performances strong and the setting is simple but so perfectly effective. Nothing is over the top in this down-to-earth production. If you usually disparage or dismiss musicals, think twice before you do that to Once. At the the Phoenix Theatre.

In partnership with the new art initiative Beirut (Cairo), Lisson Gallery has opened its group show The Magic of the State, a provocative medley of video installations, performance art and photography that will keep you on your toes.

An adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel, The Firework-Maker's Daughter by David Bruce and librettist Glyn Maxwell is currently playing in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Mixing puppetry and pyrotechnics, this vivid production brims with energy.

Part of London Flamenco Festival at Sadler's Wells, Israel Galván's La Curva is innovative and experimental, but ultimately disappointing, running to a length greater than that necessary given its material.

Yes, it's the "one about the postal order" back for a fresh airing in the West End in a Lindsay Posner production which plays down the politics but vividly paints the family drama trapped in William Morris-wallpapered stiff-upper-lip genteel domesticity, right down to its french windows and stagey dialogue. At The Old Vic Theatre.