CURTAIN CALLS

ART

Only two more weeks to catch former Greek Art guitarist and schoolboy thespian Jack Dee making his professional acting debut in the hit play about art, money and men, now into its fifth cast in Matthew Warchus's immaculate production.

Wyndham's Threatre, W1 (0171-369 1736)

WAITING FOR GODOT

The word "seminal" could have been invented to describe Beckett's wildly influential tragicomedy about killing time. Having directed the premiere in the 1950s, Peter Hall begins a new season with a new cast in his Old Vic production. Under his watchful gaze, the play bursts into strange, comic, and shockingly tender life.

Piccadilly Theatre, W1 (0171-369 1734)

THE WEIR

Conor McPherson's award-strewn, beautifully told tale of tall stories in a country pub is exquisitely played, unfashionably gentle, quietly compelling and very moving.

Royal Court at the Duke of York's, WC2 (0171-565 5000)

CAUSE CeLeBRE

Sex, desire, death and hypocrisy: Neil Bartlett dusts down Terence Rattigan's final flop and rediscovers it as a stunning study of double standards. Many Rattigan revivals only remind you why the angry young men sneered at him but Bartlett's lucid, sharply directed and movingly acted production is simply superb.

Lyric Hammersmith, W6 (0181-741 2311)

CAMINO REAL

Jason Carr's gorgeous, smoky, Fifties jazz score sets the tone for Steven Pimlott's superbly convincing production of Tennessee Williams's neglected fantasy about love, hope and fate. The loose narrative sprawls but the evening gradually coheres and finally grips thanks to Yolande Sonnabend's designs and Peter Mumford's incredibly evocative lighting. A bold Darrell D'Silva heads an excellent RSC cast including Susannah York, Peter Egan (as Casanova), and Leslie Phillips. Paola Dionisotti gloriously steals the show as a deliciously funny, no-nonsense, gypsy fortune-teller.

Young Vic, SE1 (0171-928 6363)

CLOSER

Patrick Marber's caustic Mamet-inspired study of male attitudes to sex and relationships returns with Liza Walker repeating her award-winning performance. She is joined by sparring partners Frances Barber, Neil Pearson, and face-to-watch Lloyd Owen, whose performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was so subtly good that awards committees didn't notice it.

Lyric Theatre, W1 (0171-494 5065)