Graeae’s award-winning Self-Raising is at Soho Theatre

THE Most Precious of Goods, based on Jean-Claude Grumberg’s French novella and starring Samantha Spiro, is set in war-torn Eastern Europe in 1943: a woodcutter’s wife finds a bundle in the snow thrown from a moving goods train. This story of love and hope, takes place against the terrible backdrop of the Holocaust. Until Feb 3. marylebonetheatre.com/

• The Beatles Reborn promise a musical journey celebrating the world’s most successful singer-songwriting band. Enjoy their biggest hits from She Loves You, Yesterday and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, through to album tracks from Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper, topped off with anthems Hey Jude, All You Need Is Love and Come Together. 3pm & 7.30pm, Feb 3. shaw-theatre.com/

• Athena Atherton and Cassia Crimin’s play Five Percent is a coming-of-age narrative exploring the relationship between mother and daughter. Together they navigate the difficulties of the justice system, trauma, and healing. Feb 6-9. etceteratheatrecamden.com/

• Gareth Watkins’ The Gentleman of Shalott is a queer adaptation of Tennyson’s poem influenced by the Theatre of the Absurd. It explores themes of isolation, social media-induced anxiety, neurodiversity, and our unwillingness to confront the climate crisis. Feb 6-17. thehopetheatre.com/

• Graeae’s award-winning artistic director Jenny Sealey has spent a lifetime championing stories by deaf and disabled artists. Now she takes to the stage to tell her own story. Unravelling the past and facing the future, Self-Raising is about growing up deaf in a family with secrets. Audio Described. Feb 6-17. sohotheatre.com/

• Hit musical Songs for a New World, written and composed by Jason Robert Brown, is an anthology of short stories told though song. A cast of four perform various genres, including pop, jazz, and gospel. Feb 6-March 3. upstairsatthegatehouse.com/

• Sure to be one of the year’s talked about productions, Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani as King Lear in Shakespeare’s poignant, morally ambiguous, and subversive epic. Feb 8-March 30. almeida.co.uk/

• Kevin Kelly’s new play, Turning the Screw is about love, music and power. It’s 1954 and Benjamin Britten is working on a new opera about purity and innocence. He’s in an illegal gay relationship with Peter Pears. The star of the opera, a choirboy, is coming to stay with them and the people around Britten are concerned… Someone’s going to get hurt. Suitable for 16 +. Feb 14-March 10. kingsheadtheatre.com/

• At the Hen and Chickens theatre, Dear Eliza explores friendship under the strain of mental ill health and the fear of being a burden. This one-person play, written and performed by Barbara Diesel, is about confronting unexpressed emotions within relationships, and saying out loud what you’d rather keep inside your head. Suitable for 16+. Feb 22-24. unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/dear-eliza/