This production hits the jackpot, delivering a high-stakes spectacle that'll have you betting on love and rooting for the underdogs.

Fresh as ever, joyful, magnificent, superb!

Best play is the blue ribbon award for the Reggies; the genre that originally gave the fringe its profile. In third place is Wipers Times at the Arts Theatre. Co-written by Ian Hislop, the play is a glorious mix of comedy, pathos and drama as the human cost of war is laid bare. In second place, Tiny Dynamite at the Old Red Lion. A play from the pen of Abi Morgan does exactly what it says on the tin. A ...

Eva de Valk runs down the big theatre news of 2017.