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Zac Efron and Claire Danes in 'Me and Orson Welles'

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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