The Week on Stage: From Standing at the Sky’s Edge to Sylvia

A guide to the week’s theatre

From left to right, ‘Graceland’, ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’, and ‘Sylvia’ (Ali Wright/Johan Persson/Manuel Harlan/The Independent)

This week, we have two long-awaited arrivals on the London stage: Richard Hawley’s musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge (which was first shown in Sheffield in 2019) and Sylvia (originally staged at the Old Vic in 2018). Plus, emerging playwright Ava Wong Davies’s Graceland makes its debut in the Jerwood Upstairs at the Royal Court.

Standing at the Sky’s Edge – National Theatre ★★★★☆