Nayatt School Redux

NEW York theatre company The Wooster Group is renowned for its avant-garde, multimedia approach, blending classic texts, technology, and live performance. This is a rare opportunity to see Nayatt School Redux, a contemporary reworking of one of their most famous productions, created by director Elizabeth LeCompte and autobiographical monologist Spalding Gray. The company reinvent scenes from the original show culminating in the climactic sequences of TS Eliot’s The Cocktail Party. Coronet Theatre to April 25, thecoronettheatre.com

• Comedy musical JEEZUS! combines Catholic guilt with Latin heat. Set in 1990s Peru, a brutal military coup ushers in a decade of dictatorship under the rule of Alberto Fujimori. In the home of General José and his devoted wife María, altar boy Jesús prepares diligently for his first communion. But as the big day approaches, the hot man on the cross makes him feel something… unholy. New Diorama to May 9, newdiorama.com

• Between the River and the Sea, written and performed by Yousef Sweid and director Isabella Sedlak, is about family, fear, and imagining a future beyond borders. Yousef, a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli from Haifa, is raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin. He’s facing a custody battle and things are getting complicated. Jerwood Theatre Upstairs till May 9, royalcourttheatre.com/

• Join Sam Wilson for a nostalgic trip back to school. As the race to become Head Boy intensifies, will Sam cause someone grievous bodily harm? Sorry (I Broke Your Arms and Legs) combines PowerPoint, stand-up comedy set and the thrills of World Book Day. Pleasance Theatre, to May 9. pleasance.co.uk/

• Stickin’ Boy, Martin Muscatt’s punk rock ’n’ roll musical, with additional material by Mick Jones of The Clash, is set in late-70s Soho, an underground world of vice, energy, and unapologetic rebellion. We follow Eddy, a 20-year-old aspiring musician, weighed down by a growing gambling habit, and desperate to break out of his monotonous life. Everything changes when he meets Candy, a sex worker who draws him to become her “stickin’ boy”, posting calling cards in phone boxes to promote her services. Etcetera Theatre, May 5-10, etceteratheatrecamden.com/

• Chris Burgess’s Entertaining Murder is a musical inspired by the true story of Edith Thompson and her young lover Freddy Bywaters. Their Old Bailey murder trial of 1922 became a cause célèbre. People queued for days to get tickets to see whether they were found innocent or guilty. Did Edith really collude with her lover to kill her husband? Upstairs at the Gatehouse, to May 10, upstairsatthegatehouse

• At Camden People’s Theatre, Brazilian playwright Filipe Pereira’s Work While They Sleep is a feminist sci-fi play about a woman who accidentally conjures a sinister alter ego who works for her between midnight and six in the morning. Merging physical theatre and video art, this absurd tale exposes how late capitalism traps women, and society at large, within a continuous cycle of abuse. May 13-16. cptheatre.co.uk/

• Adaptor Flora Wilson Brown and director Júlia Levai reimagine Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, for the stage. We follow six characters’ rites of passage from childhood to adulthood. They begin by the coast, move through school, youth, terror and joy. Alone. And together. Jermyn Street Theatre, to May 23, jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/