Rakhee Thakrar in rehearsals for Paradise Now!

GILLIAN Duffy’s comedy-drama The Ghosting of Rabbie Burns covers love, dating, breakups and ghosting. Heartbroken author Emily Winters retreats to her aunt’s cottage in Scotland to get over her cheating ex. As she celebrates Burns night alone the ghost of Rabbie Burns appears to give her some dating advice. Featuring the songs and poems of Burns, including Ae Fond Kiss, Charlie is my Darlin and Auld Lang Syne. King’s Head Theatre to Jan 14. kingsheadtheatre.com/

• Elsie Yager’s IPHIGENIA; or, the sacrifices of a young woman in nine movements at The Hope Theatre tells the tragic tale of a young girl’s demise and the mother who allows it to happen. Iphigenia is a regular teenage girl on the verge of becoming a woman. Bursting with desires, fears and dreams, she’s about to be slaughtered as a sacrifice to the gods. Alongside documentary interviews with parents and children, we witness a series of private moments set in Iphigenia’s bedroom as she reconciles herself to her future. Jan 10-28. thehopetheatre.com/

• Star Trek legend George Takei makes his London stage debut aged 85 in an uplifting story inspired by his own Second World War experience in a US concentration camp as a child. Broadway musical, Allegiance, follows the story of the Kimura family and their struggles in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In a world ravaged by war, 120,000 Japanese Americans are forced into internment camps, testing the power and resilience of the human spirit. Charing Cross Theatre, Jan 7-April 8. charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/

• Rebecca Frecknall directs Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre. Set in New Orleans, in a blistering summer, Blanche unexpectedly visits her estranged sister Stella. She brings with her a past that threatens their future. As Stella’s husband Stanley stalks closer to the truth, Blanche’s fragile world begins to fracture. Reality and illusion collide and a violent conflict changes their lives forever. Until Feb 4. almeida.co.uk/

• In Misha Levkov’s debut, In the Net, Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of north London as a way to unite their community. Meanwhile Hala, a Syrian refugee staying with the family, finds herself caught in a tangle of immigration red tape. With time running out, drought spreading, and the authorities closing in, the net becomes their arena in the pursuit of justice, joy and safety. Jermyn Street Theatre, from Jan 12-Feb 4. jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/

• Margaret Perry’s Paradise Now! is about ambition, exploitation and the search for connection in a fractured world. When Gabriel Dolan meets Alex, an ambitious young woman who sells essential oils for a company called Paradise, she is drawn into a bright, floral-scented world. Embraced by a community of women, Gabriel quickly rises through the ranks. But success doesn’t feel like she thought it would. Bush Theatre, until Jan 21. bushtheatre.co.uk/