King’s Head Theatre Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is a mouthful of a name, this equally complex woman is “unveiled” by

The Yard As you might have guessed from the title, this will be a reasonably adult review, for a very

London Palladium The best thing about theatre is its ability to revive an esoteric hit. Do you remember fondly the

Arcola Think Sex and the City (and Robots) meets a purple-coded Black Mirror, and you are close to David Head’s

The Pit, Barbican Centre Halloween (otherwise known as gay Christmas) is an odd festival. Originally Samhain, celebrating “when summer goes

Crazy Coqs Below 21st-century London, 1930’s Weimar Berlin is resurrected this Halloween by a handsome 90-something-year-old vampire, with a flair

Empress Place PT Barnum’s shadow looms large over the circus scene, possibly due to the top hat. Supersizing the genre

Trafalgar Theatre As it my first time at Whitehall’s theatre since its rebrand and absorption by the Trafalgar Entertainment empire,

‘Extremes are the rule of the day’ Almeida Theatre Morfydd Clark (centre) shines in Roots. Photograph: Marc Brenner Double trouble indeed.