Today, Theatre

• Written by: Roy William

A performance that explores the hidden complexities surrounding knife crime in Britain with the collaboration of fact and fiction, to create a compelling and contemporary response to gang related culture.

• Written by: George Orwell

Sell A Door Theatre Company presents Matthew Dunster's adaptation of George Orwell's harrowing novel of oppression.

• Directed by: Sue Hamilton
• Written by: Bradford Ropes

This Tony and Olivier Award-winning song and dance extravaganza sets the glitz and glamour of Broadway against the backdrop of New York in the height of the Great Depression.

• Directed by: Alexander Marshall
• Written by: Alexander Marshall

As he lies on the ground struggling for life, John Lennon finds himself in limbo, with his life flashing before him and having to confront Death's five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Drama by Alexander Marshall, featuring Valentine Pelka as the late Beatle.

Shakespeare's pastoral comedy which tells the story of Rosalind and Orlando, who are banished from an oppressive court and forced to run for their lives into the wild depths of the Forest of Arden. Directed by Maria Aberg.

• Directed by: Stephen Daldry
• Written by: Peter Morgan

Helen Mirren stars in Peter Morgan's fictional renditions of the private meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and the 12 Prime Ministers who have served the country during her reign. Directed by Stephen Daldry, with Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Paul Ritter as John Major, Michael…

• Directed by: James Dacre
• Written by: Clare Brown

Presented by Timberlake Wertenbaker, journalist Clare Brown's second play is a poetic piece set on a remote Scottish island. Directed by James Dacre.

Timberlina is joined by Hey Baylen for some madcap entertainment, which features sing-a-longs, comedy banter and some surprise guests, including a Cher doll.

Two brothers take you through side-splitting stereotypical male behaviour and phenomenal dance outbreaks in this energetic award-winning comedy.

• Directed by: Lyn Lockyer
• Written by: Willis Hall

Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's comedy drama, adapted from Waterhouse's novel about a young man trapped in a humdrum existence who develops a rich fantasy life.

• Written by: Rachel Wagstaff (adapt)

Adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' best-selling novel of love, courage and sacrifice set before and during WWI.

• Written by: Foz Foster

A tender and beautiful examination of death and rebirth, an animated installation/performance using objects and puppetry to encompass and evoke dreams and memories of a life once lived.

Alleged dinner during Paris Occupation between Hermann Goering and legendary Josephine Baker. Dramatic confrontation told Brechtian style with flashbacks and flashforwards song and dance themes of love, food, sex, racism and extermination. Author Jonathan Cash, director Faynia Williams (winners Best Theatre Performance…

• Directed by: Kevin Shaw
• Written by: Alan Plater

Kevin Shaw directs a musical adapted from Alan Plater's TV drama about an all-girl swing band during the Second World War. The production features live performances of numbers by Glen Miller, George Formby and Fats Waller.

Willy Russell's moving tale about two brothers whose lives are worlds apart.

• Written by: Willy Russell

Blood Brothers (play version) is the story of Mickey and Eddie, the Johnson twins separated at birth, one of whom grows up in the wealthy Lyons family and the other in poorer conditions with their biological mother. Each boy is unaware that he has a twin brother and the mothers are determined to keep it that way. However…

• Directed by: Trey Parker

Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone's Tony Award-winning musical satire chronicling the misadventures of two Mormon missionaries in a remote village in northern Uganda featuring the songs "You And Me (But Mostly Me)", "I Am here For You" and "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day". Directed by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker.

• Directed by: Caroline Steinbeis
• Written by: Alistair McDowall

Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, in association with Live Theatre, Newcastle, presents Alistair McDowall's drama in which a 19-year-old science genius, living on a derelict Middlesbrough housing estate, discovers he can break the established rules of physics. Directed by Caroline Steinbeis.

• Directed by: Ruben Sanchez-Garcia
• Written by: Phyllis Nagy

A provocative and visually stimulating production which explores the mind and memories of a young woman in prison for murder.

• Directed by: Emma King-Farlow
• Written by: Martin Foreman

Three monologues by Martin Foreman, exploring the lives of three different Californians. A salesman who knows all the side streets of Los Angeles meets the woman of his dreams one day, in Los Feliz. A group of older men have a quiet time in a San Fernando Valley bar until a young men enters, in Ben and Joe's. A…

• Written by: Phil Woods

The Phoenix's version of Chaucer's play is somewhat modernised, but just like the original, you can expect an evening full of drama, comedy, pathos and plenty of dirty jokes.

The musical story of the 60s, packed with classic hits including 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'Do Wah Diddy', 'Tired of Waiting For You', 'You Really Got Me', 'Keep on Running', 'Sweets for my Sweet' and more.

• Directed by: Carole Todd
• Written by: Carl Leighton-Pope

A working-class lad from Liverpool comes to London with his guitar and his dreams of fame. Sid Owen features as music manager Jumpin' Jack Flash, in this 1960s-set musical by Carl Leighton-Pope and Robert Johns. Directed by Bob Tomson.