This slick stage adaptation leans on nostalgia, faithfully resurrecting beloved episodes with expert mimicry and retro charm at the Apollo Theatre.

In Showmanism, lip-sync artist Dickie Beau channels theatre’s past and present in a witty, unsettling reflection on what it means to perform.

Jordan Fein’s reimagining strips off nostalgia to reveal a haunting, heartfelt tale of tradition, resilience and the quiet ache of displacement.

Sarah Ruhl’s epistolary play about poet Max Ritvo is a tender, witty meditation on life, art and mortality, delicately staged at Hampstead Theatre.

Crisp writing and a strong cast can’t save Radiant Boy from its own lack of conviction. An exorcism with no menace is no exorcism at all.