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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Threesixty Theatre, London

This adaptation’s chief achievement is in the realm of visual spectacle rather than emotional impact

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Cymbeline, Barbican Theatre, London

This Japanese production of Shakespeare’s late romance proceeds with a combination of dreamlike fluidity and narrative clarity

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Our Town, Guildhall School of Music, London

The first European production of Ned Rorem’s opera about small-town America conveyed the work’s strengths

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Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Sadler’s Wells, London

There’s energy – rather too much of it – in the three pieces presented here by this Cuban company

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Ragtime, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London

With show-stopping numbers and a Houdini escapology act, this production matches its material in scope and audacity

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Esperanza Spalding, Koko, London

This gig from the singer and bass player maintained a fine balance between jazz and the mainstream

Sylfiden ©Hans Nilsson THEATRE & DANCE 6:56pm

La Sylphide, Royal Opera House, Stockholm

Royal Swedish Ballet’s production – here featuring a nerveless replacement for the injured Sylph – is a masterpiece restored

THEATRE & DANCE May 29, 2012

Six Actors in Search of a Director, Charing Cross Theatre, London

In Steven Berkoff’s comedy about actors on a film set, the ‘darlings’ are boring parodies, the drama clogged with clichés

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Haneke’s genius gains its reward

Michael Haneke’s formidable film about the defiant love of an elderly couple was a deserving winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or

CALIGULA by Glarnert, , Music – Detlev Glanert, Director – Benedict Andrews, The English National Opera, 2012 ©Johan Persson MUSIC May 28, 2012

Caligula, Coliseum, London

Though Detlev Glanert’s opera feels over long, Peter Coleman-Wright is impressive in the exhausting title-role

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