Stratford East

You’ll have a job getting into any of James Acaster’s bewildering multitude of London solo shows this March, although if you’re a fan of the subversive comedy superstar – and who isn’t – then by all means sign up for a waiting list, and it looks like his Hackney Empire shows (technically in April) aren’t entirely sold out at time of writing. These dates are, apparently, a basically finished new show, just it doesn’t have a name, with the only description the delightfully flip ‘a brand new show, full of everything you love about James Acaster and more!’. But you can also catch him at the head of a frankly sensational bill at a charity gig for The Bike Project earlier in the month at the Union Chapel. At time of writing it’s not sold out and as well as Acaster you get Sophie Duker, Janine Harouni, Catherine Bohart, Olga Koch and Jack Barry on the bill.

Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy is probably his best known play, and second best known work overall after his acclaimed film Moonlight. But despite a triumphant Broadway run, its London life has thus far been confined to an ultra sold out 2012 stint at the Royal Court’s tiny Upstairs theatre. But director Nancy Medina helmed a major revival at the Bristol Old Vic a couple of years back, and now it transfers to Stratford East as the second show in Lisa Spirling’s inaugural season. Set at an elite Black prep school in the States, it follows a group of boys as they negotiate race, sexuality, class and more.