Seven days on stage

In London, the Coliseum's Spring Dance season continued with the Stuttgart Ballet's Romeo and Juliet. Judith Mackrell found it an evening of tense standoffs, puppyish love and buoyant moves Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Jeremy Irons is back on the London stage in Never So Good, Howard Brenton's portrait of Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan. For Michael Billington, Irons 'indicates the inviolable sadness that shadowed Macmillan even when he achieved power' Photograph: Tristram Kenton

God of Carnage was named best new comedy Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Lyn Gardner was dazzled this week by Jonathan Miller's mesmerising Hamlet (above left, with Annabel Scholey as Ophelia) at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol Photograph: Tristram Kenton

At Keswick's Theatre by the Lake, Alfred Hickling enjoyed Our Country's Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker's play about an am-dram performance by a gang of convicts in Australia Photograph: Keith Pattison

At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Clare Brennan was amused by a fanastical account of George Orwell's later life in Year of the Rat ... Photograph: Keith Pattison

... while Lyn Gardner watched an author bio-play at the Unicorn in London. The Twin Stars is about Kenji Miyazawa - the 'JM Barrie of Japan' Photograph: Tristram Kenton