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IN FOCUS: Unbeknownst to many, the actor so beloved as Black Panther was also a playwright. Six years after his death, his 2005 play about the killing of his friend at the hands of a policeman is making its UK debut. His brothers, Kevin and Derrick, speak with Annabel Nugent…

3/5 Tim Crouch’s take on Shakespeare’s final play doesn’t always come together but is filled with plenty of magical moments

As pupils head back to school, they may well encounter Shakespeare’s plays and poems – perhaps for the first time.

Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia

4/5 Led by George Fouracres at Falstaff this is full of zest

Director Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting

What’s behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meanings that address our times

This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness

Olivier Award nominee Athena Stevens said she felt ‘relieved’ after settling with Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.