Emotional Labour: Sally Hales reviews Emily Schwend’s play about an overstretched Texan mother.

Playing for England: Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish’s story of women and the beautiful game is touring football clubs and theatres nationwide.

‘The tried-and-true dynamic of steely mother and slightly hapless son’: Hailey Bachrach reviews a revival of D H Lawrence’s play set during the 1912 miners strike.

Taylor Swift and suburban marriages: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews the UK premiere of Mary Laws’ play about a family breakfast gone wrong.

A strange sterility: Anna Winter reviews a new work for Rambert by choreographer Kim Brandstrup.

Charming, inventive and beautiful: Lauren Mooney reviews the return of a WWI-set Peter Pan to the Open Air Theatre.

Inappropriate texts: Frey Kwa Hawking on a disconcerting play about the impact of rape accusations.

‘Bed-ridden with everything except a husband’: Amelia Forsbrook reviews the ROH’s ballet about the last Tudor on the throne.

A celebration of the power of music to hold and communicate human history: Maddy Costa reviews a cabaret of songs banned by the Nazis.

Dream on: Rosemary Waugh reviews a new work-in-progess from The Plasticine Men about selling cars to the Indian market

Defiance as superpower: Freddie Machin reviews Rachael Young’s new show about Afrofuturism and the cult of Grace Jones