The Sunday Preview: The five best plays

Saturday 17 October 1992 23:02 BST

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Someone Who'll Watch over Me (Vaudeville, 071-836 9987). Heart- breaking hostage comedy by Frank McGuinness with fine performances by Stephen Rea and Alec McCowen, who will shortly take it to Broadway. Last week.

Colquhoun and MacBryde (Royal Court, 071-730 1745). Ken Stott and David O'Hara raise hell as the two Glaswegian painters in John Byrne's uproarious elegy for Fitzrovia.

Angels in America (Cottesloe, 071-928 2252). Clean sweep of the underbelly of Manhattan, brilliantly directed by Declan Donellan.

Tamburlaine the Great (Swan, Stratford, 0789-295623). Antony Sher rises to barbaric sublimity as the all-

conquering Scythian in Terry Hands's revelatory revival of the first Elizabethan smash hit. Irving Wardle

An Inspector Calls (Lyttelton, 071-928 2252). Stylish National debut for Stephen Daldry directing this great rep stand-by: Priestley's yarn of a police inspector who links a bourgeois family into a web of guilt. Robert Butler

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