Seven days on stage (June 30 - July 6 2007)

Michael Ball heads a company of 125 artists in Kismet, ENO's colourful confection at the Coliseum in London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Alfie Boe as The Caliph and Sarah Tynan as Marsinah in Kismet. Robert Wright and George Forrest's Arabian Nights phantasmagoria left Tim Ashley disappointed. He applauded Michael Ball's "wide-eyed and impish" performance, but concluded that the show wasn't the "grand spectacle" he'd expected. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

The Manchester International Festival hosted the world premiere of Monkey: Journey to the West. The striking Chinese opera is a collaboration between Gorillaz Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, director Chen Shi-Zheng, conductor André de Ridder and the Theatre du Chatelet. Photograph: PR

Critics enthused about the ambitious nature of Monkey: Journey to the West. "Imagine The Lord Of The Rings being done by the Chinese State Circus in the style of House Of Flying Daggers," suggested Kitty Empire. Photograph: PR

Tony Kushner's Angels in America returned to London in a new production by Daniel Kramer at the Lyric in Hammersmith. The epic seven-hour production is performed in two instalments. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

At Sadler's Wells, D.A.N.C.E. showcased the fruits of an apprentice scheme for dancers. Judith Mackrell thought they performed "heroically" in William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, Reproduced - a piece "exemplifying the power of pure movement". Photograph: Tristram Kenton

At the Soho Theatre, Hassan Abdulrazzak's Baghdad Wedding mixes passion and politics. The play follows several storylines and hops between London and Baghdad. "Abdulrazzak not only covers an enormous amount of territory, he also reminds us of the infinite human contradictions within any nation," wrote Michael Billington. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

The Circus Front season at London's Roundhouse continued with Taoub, a show by Collectif Acrobatique de Tangier. Lyn Gardner found it "an appealing, low-key piece played out on old-fashioned carpets and accompanied by traditional instruments and pure rising voices". Photograph: Richard Haughton/PR

At the Barbican, Mark Morris presented Mozart Dances - three works set to the Austrian composer's piano music. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

A scene from Dance 2 Double from Mozart Dances at the Barbican. "It's what I know about the music and what I know about the world," Morris told the Guardian. "It's what I've been leading up to my whole career." Photograph: Tristram Kenton