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Perrault’s classic fairy tale opens at the Sydney Opera House, important Dutch paintings arrive in Madrid, and the V&A opens ten renovated galleries
Reviews
Film releases: December 4
Nigel Andrews reviews Richard Linklater’s ‘Me and Orson Welles’, Richard Kelly’s ‘The Box’, Steve Jacobs’s ‘Disgrace’, Beadie Finzi’s ‘Only When I dance’, Michael Keaton’s ‘The Merry Gentlemen’, and George Blanco and Javier Abad’s ‘Planet 51’
Ballet Hispanico, Joyce Theatre, New York
The choreographies are a brave mess, says Apollinaire Scherr
Eleven and Twelve, Théâtre Bouffes du Nord, Paris
Clare Shine finds this production a little too detached
MacMillan Tribute, Opera House, Stuttgart
Jason Reilly leads a fine revival, writes Gerald Dowler
Jack and the Beanstalk, Lyric Hammersmith, London
Ian Shuttleworth finds updated panto fails to come alive
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