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The Wyndhams Theatre ticket lottery explained, but is the show worth the hassle?

J B Priestly’s moral drama poses enough questions to entertain, but remains slightly detached from today’s audience

Verbatim plays – even the famous My Name is Rachel Corrie – get a new twist in this intriguing double bill.

Fancy letting your kids be young farmers, white water rafters, pirates, chocolate sculptors and easter egg hunters?

Danny Boyle’s production with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller is stunning, and utterly sold out. But there are still ways to see it…

Roll up, roll up! The games are afoot! And you are invited to join the fun on Wednesday 16 March in Music-Hall Chairs, a night of games organised by Londonist, A Door In A Wall and Wilton’s Music Hall.

Next Wednesday nine new short plays debut at Soho Theatre.

This week’s Arts Ahead features plenty of festive fare for younger theatre audiences, as well as some Shakespeare, some schmaltz, an annual Snowman, and a touch of ventriloquism. There’s also a smattering of exciting new contemporary art shows, and a new Climate Change gallery opening at the Science Museum…

We liked Chris McCabe’s London Word Festival show Shad Thames, Broken Wharf so much we wanted to share a bit with you now it’s been published as a limited edition, signed, boxed mini-book. Each box contains an object mudlarked from the Thames by the author. …

“It’s only rich folk can keep theirselves tae theirselves. Folk like us huv tae depend on their neighbours when they’re needin help.” Josie Rourke’s new production of Men Should Weep takes Ena Lamont Stewart’s Glasgow tenement-based play, and gives it the National Theatre treatment