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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci review – compelling and compassionate theatre

Damiano Michieletto’s 2015 pairing of the two short operas returns for its third revival with a superb cast including Roberto Alagna, and carefully if sometimes solidly paced by Daniel Oren

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Cinderella review – pop-powered Hammersmith panto looks sharp

Vikki Stone’s playful fairytale is staged with fabulous costumes and high-energy songs but falls short of delirious comedy

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The Snow Queen review – flurry of fun needs more sense of adventure

Working best as an origin story, this new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale is poignant but lacks danger

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Keel Watson obituary

Versatile opera singer who could move effortlessly between Wagner and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Van Huynh Company: Re:birth review – a swirling portrayal of the exhaustion of exile

The UK-based Vietnamese dancer and choreographer stages a piece inspired by the horror and dislocation of war with experimental vocals from Elaine Mitchener

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L’Elisir d’Amore review – Glyndebourne takes Donizetti into the 1950s with wit and charm

A strong cast and gleeful chorus enliven this revival of Annabel Arden’s insightful production, which plays up the opera’s irony

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The week in theatre: Backstairs Billy; The Box of Delights; Brenda’s Got a Baby – review

The puns ricochet between Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans in a frisky royal tale of mistress and servant; merriment dispels mystery at the RSC; and a pregnancy drama that delivers in parts

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The week in classical: Jephtha; 7 Deaths of Maria Callas; Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden – review

Handel’s majestic final oratorio holds its own in Oliver Mears’s searching new production; Marina Abramović channels Maria Callas; and a well-told tale of when Britten met Auden

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Hot Orange review – hoop dreams and true love in bittersweet teen drama

Amal Khalidi and Tatenda Naomi Matsvai’s play for over-13s touchingly evokes two friends’ passions and pressures

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Jephtha review – Clayton is magnificent as a wide-eyed zealot

Oliver Mears’s powerful but flawed staging of Handel’s biblical oratorio boasts very fine singing and performances, with Jennifer France’s Iphis and Allan Clayton’s Jephtha standouts

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The Box of Delights review – the RSC makes merry with Masefield’s fantasy

This is a well-crafted, brilliantly acted version of John Masefield’s classic novel about an orphan who travels through time

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Phantasmagoria review – scary story forgets the fear factor

Unsettling ideas about sinister political forces are debated in a haunted house. It’s timely subject matter, but fails to create any sense of tension

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Allan Clayton: ‘I’m your tortured tenor for hire’

His committed performances and expressive voice have made him one of today’s most admired singers. As he prepares for Jephtha at Covent Garden, Allan Clayton ponders creativity, pigeonholes and facial hair

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Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

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Nutcracker review – a Christmas dream of love that goes with a swing

A hunky Action Man opens up a sequin-clad life for the protagonist of Drew McOnie’s jazzy, out-and-proud take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet

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Knocking on the Wall review – delightful domestic surprise in Ena Lamont Stewart revival

The third play in this programme of work by Scotland’s first major modern female playwright redeems an otherwise underpowered evening

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7 Deaths of Maria Callas review – Marina Abramović dreams up a diva’s greatest hits

With murderous cameos from Willem Dafoe and live renditions of arias by a clutch of sopranos, the performance artist pays somewhat tame homage to the extraordinary singer

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It’s ahead of you! 25 festive UK shows to book for Christmas

An AI Pinocchio, Scrooge on the Cornish coast and a scouse Dick Whittington are just some of the season’s theatrical treats

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The Cellist; The Limit review – a tale of two Royal Ballet dramas

Lauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels squeezed

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La Rondine review – Opera North’s stylish Puccini is opulent and tender

Set in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoons

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La Traviata review – radical revival powered by outstanding performers

Painstakingly restored by Ruth Knight for ENO, Peter Konwitschny’s production pares the Verdi opera down to its absolute essence

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The Limit review – oppressed pair make words and steps count

Sam Steiner’s play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet grace

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Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

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Haydn Gwynne obituary

Stage and screen actor known for her TV roles in Drop the Dead Donkey and The Windsors, and as a star of musical theatre

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Free Your Mind review – Danny Boyle’s Matrix reboot is a thrilling shock to the system

The director’s collaboration with hip-hop dance company Boy Blue, designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz conveys the march of AI

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