Seven days on stage

Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size has been a big hit at New York's Public Theater, and the London production opened at the Young Vic on Tuesday. In the Guardian Michael Billington praised the “heightened prose-poetry” of this tale of a Louisana fraternal reunion: “This is acting of the highest quality, that invests a hybrid parable with a joyous, life-affirming vitality.” Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Madonna may have starred in the film, but it was the songs of Blondie that featured in the new musical version of Desperately Seeking Susan, which opened at the Novello Theatre on Thursday. On the Guardian blog Nicholas Blincoe observed that “punk rock and jazz hands do not mix.” Photograph: Tristram Kenton

From feminine sculptures to tap-dance torture, Rambert’s latest show, which opened at Sadler’s Wells on Wednesday, offers a kaleidoscope of styles and subjects. Sanjoy Roy admired its virtuosity and diversity: “That’s my kind of dance,” he wrote. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Cheek By Jowl’s dark retelling of Racine’s Andromache opened last week at the Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Fiachra Gibbons admired the ghostly performers, who “unleash the pain, raw anger and denial that is bolted into Racine's tidy rhymes, like cluster bombs in the sheath of a shiny artillery shell”. Photograph: Public domain

Kwame Kwei-Armah's Statement of Regret, whose press night was at the National on Wednesday, follows the founder of a black think-tank whose life is in a state of collapse. Michael Billington enjoyed Don Warrington’s lead performance, but felt that the play attempted to introduce too many themes: “By the end of the evening, one's head is swimming.” Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Anupama Chandrasekhar's Free Outgoing opened at the Royal Court on Monday, telling the story of a high-achieving Indian girl whose life unravels after she is filmed having sex on her boyfriend’s mobile. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Michael Clark’s tripartite Stravinsky ballet has taken three years to complete, and the final instalment did not disappoint at the Barbican. In Sunday's Observer Luke Jennings saluted a “rich and strange journey” and wondered “where will Clark take us next?” Photograph: Tristram Kenton