Seven days on stage

It's been a busy summer for Carlos Acosta. After presenting a programme of Robbins and Balanchine in Manchester, and dancing with the Royal Ballet in Cuba, he arrived at the Coliseum this week for a mixed bill including Spartacus Photograph: Tristram Kenton

At Chichester's Minerva, Tom Goodman-Hill and Samuel West are starring in Lucy Prebble's Enron. In a four-star review, Michael Billington called it 'hugely ambitious ... an exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle' Photograph: Tristram Kenton

In Newbury, the Watermill has another hit on its hands. Written in 1998, Spend Spend Spend! is based on the true story of Pools winner Viv Nicholson. This revival, directed by Craig Revel Horwood, is 'big and brassy like its heroine', thinks Lyn Gardner Photograph: Tristram Kenton

In London, the week's biggest opening was The Black Album. Hanif Kureishi's own adaptation of his 1995 novel pales in comparison with the original, think most critics. But Michael Billington found enough interesting issues – 'about religious and political faith, fatwas and censorship and the purpose of art' – to award it three stars Photograph: Tristram Kenton

At Soho theatre, Paula Wilcox stars in Dreams of Violence, written by Stella Feehily. Don't go calling her the next bright young female playwright, urges director Max Stafford-Clark Photograph: Tristram Kenton

All things weird and wonderful can be found at the Avignon festival, such as Needcompany's performance of The Deer House, written and directed by Belgian Jan Lauwers Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

Finally, Matthew Kelly's recent run of fine performances continues at the Globe with his smooth turn as Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida. He's a 'talking moral vacuum and walking oil slick', reckons Lyn Gardner Photograph: Tristram Kenton