Caroline, or Change

Sharon D Clarke stars as a black maid sweating out her days laundering clothes in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s 2003 musical, set in Louisiana at the time of the JFK assassination. Moving into the West End after runs at Chichester and Hampstead, Michael Longhurst’s revival is beautifully staged and impeccably performed. Dominic Cavendish Playhouse Theatre, London WC2 (0844 871 7631), to April 6