If, like me, your reflex response to watching a character being strangled to death is to hold your breath until it is all over, then, like me, you are likely to have turned a shade of blue by the time Eve Best's likeable Duchess of Malfi meets her end.

In John Webster's 1613 Jacobean tragedy, the duchess falls for a dashing courtier, Antonio (Tom Bateman), who is well beneath her social status.

Of all Complicite's book adaptations, Bulgakov's mind-expanding novel is surely the most ambitious.

Do you feel morally superior to the Taliban? The opening line of DV8's verbose dance show is not a particularly provocative question considering that the Taliban routinely go about the business of governance with medieval barbarity. Yet, even at their most strident, the liberal classes in this country are hesitant when it comes to declaring moral superiority over others. Can We Talk About This?

On the evidence of his new play, Scrubs star Zach Braff is a talented writer of dialogue but with little to say about being thirtysomething and living a life that apparently contains little worth living for. Though what he does have to say, he says with wit.

A New Jersey beach house in winter is the setting for this fizzing little naval gazer.

To the Jews watching his final farewell show in Britain, Jackie Mason is family.

He may be embarrassing family, the kind of relative you would not want your gentile friend to meet (for, in his view, gentiles are only good for fixing Jew-unfriendly objects such as carburettors), but he is still family.