TheWife of Willesden, in rehearsal. Photo: Marc Brenner

Zadie Smith transports Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath to modern-day north-west London in her acclaimed adaptation. The Kiln Theatre is transformed into a local London pub, complete with tables in the stalls, for this welcome rerun of The Wife of Willesden. Married five times, Alvita tells her story. She turns mistakes into triumphs, pain into parables, and her love life is an epic poem. Until Feb 11. kilntheatre.com

Josh Maughan’s one-man play, Nice Jewish Boy, a tragic comedy about a clash of identities is at The Hope Theatre until Dec 17. When Josh is gifted his worst nightmare on his 19th birthday, he must confront what haunts both his synagogue services and Grindr hookups. Lydia Brickland’s Deck the Stalls, about an office Christmas party, runs Dec 18-19. thehopetheatre.com

Hampstead Theatre has lost 100 per cent of its Arts Council grant and its talented artistic director Roxana Silbert has had to step down. Do support the theatre in these challenging times. Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet is playing on the main stage until Jan 14. Joseph is a gay American Maronite Christian living in rural Pennsylvania. When his father dies as the result of a prank, his life becomes increasingly bizarre. With unexplained pain blocking his athletics career, a boss who wants to capitalise on his grief, an uncle who thinks he’s his legal guardian and a wayward younger brother, Joseph has a lot on his plate. Alexis Michalik’s The Art of Illusion is Downstairs from Dec 17-Jan 28. In 1984, a man meets a woman in a Parisian café. He is returning a bag that she lost in the metro, but doesn’t admit that he stole it… Instead, he tells her about Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, watchmaker, inventor and master magician of the 19th century. Together they set out to find a vanished theatre beneath a bank vault in the Boulevard des Italiens. hampsteadtheatre.com

The Donmar Warehouse has also had its entire Arts Council funding cut and needs support. Lillian Hellman’s political thriller Watch on the Rhine, starring Patricia Hodge, runs until Feb 4. Summer 1940. On a peaceful morning in Washington, widow Fanny Farrelly anxiously awaits the return of her daughter and her German husband, fleeing Europe with their children. As night falls, dark secrets emerge. donmarwarehouse.com

Shakespeare’s romantic comedy As You Like It is at London’s newest theatre, Soho Place, until Jan 28. It stars Rose Ayling-Ellis, Alfred Enoch, Leah Harvey, Tom Mison and Martha Plimpton and is directed by Josie Rourke. sohoplace.org

The Human Voice, Francis Poulanc’s final opera based on Jean Cocteau’s play, is at Charing Cross Theatre for five dates only from Dec 23-30. In an English language translation by Joseph Machlis, and directed by Alejandro Bonatto. charingcrosstheatre.co.uk