The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading

Showing now

Long Day’s Journey into Night at Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (0844-482 5120). Richard Eyre directs Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville in this “unmissable” revival of Eugene O’neill’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece (Independent). Ends 7 April.

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Tickets are selling fast for The Lehman Trilogy, Stefano Massini’s epic play telling the story of Lehman Brothers from its founding in 1850 to its collapse in 2008. With Simon Russell Beale. More performances will go on sale in late spring. 4 July-8 August, Lyttelton at the National Theatre, London SE1 (020-7452 3000).

The Streets, the Mike Skinner-led group behind the brilliant rap opera A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004) are reuniting for a UK tour. Begins on 19 April at the O2 Academy, Birmingham, then Glasgow and on (thestreetstour.com).

Comedian Bridget Christie is touring with her new show What Now?, a response to Brexit and Donald Trump. Liverpool Playhouse on 24 March, then Durham and on, ending with a residency from 10 September-10 November at Leicester Square Theatre, London WC2 (www.bridgetchristie.co.uk).

Just out in paperback

Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-smith (William Collins £9.99). Godfrey-smith, a professor of the philosophy of science, delivers a “fascinating and often delightful study” of the intelligence of the octopus (Times).