The Habit of Art

Alan Bennett’s new play is based on an imaginary meeting between Benjamin Britten and WH Auden in Oxford in the early 1970s

Cock

Plays whose characters are generically named F, M and W have a way of making yours truly go ZZZ, but not this time

A Wee Home from Home

Each episode is led by Marra’s sardonic but meltingly lovely songs, with a few phrases from Glasgow songs thrown in

The Devil Has Quentin’s Heart

The former European bodypopping champion-turned-actor Benji Reid uses his rubbery physicality to fine effect in this new one-man show

Will this black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof be lucky in London?

An all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sold out on Broadway. Can it find the same success in the West End?

The Tartuffe/ The Trial

Sometimes performers creep up on you from behind; you know when because you can smell their heavy make-up

The Making of Moo

Human flesh and blood are meat and drink to the acolytes of Moo in Nigel Dennis’s 1957 anti-religious satire

The Habit of Art

There are funny lines galore, a hilarious episode in which Auden mistakes Carpenter for the male tart he’s ordered

A Life in the Day: Carlos Acosta

The Cuban-born dancer on the rhythms of life in London and Havana

Dancer to have epileptic fit on stage

Arts Council-funded performance during which epileptic dancer will attempt to induce a seizure condemned as 'freakish'

Gnosis

Akram Khan may have let go of some of the sharpness of his early youth, but in its stead is a subtle ease of expression

Wayne McGregor's new Royal Ballet work

Balanchine and Stravinsky’s collaboration Agon, Glen Tetley's Sphinx and Limen make up the triple bill at Covent Garden

E=mc2

It’s not an alluring title, but Bintley's ballet itself is alive with the inherent physicality of the iconic equation

Wendy Houstoun

Houstoun seems to be showing us that dance is not necessarily reserved for the young: she is a survivor no matter what the odds

The Rite of Spring

In a shocking sequence the men, trousers down, roll in the earth, thrusting against it as if trying to penetrate the soil

Rambert celebrates Charles Darwin

Confusion is rife in Rambert's revolutionary Sadler's Wells premiere, but Mark Morris serves up a powerful treat

Royal Ballet at Covent Garden

Limen, the latest premiere for the choreographer Wayne McGregor, is full of unsettling dark emotion and sexual energy

Rambert

There is no doubting the sophistication of Henri Oguike’s Tread Softly, his first creation for Rambert

Another fine Messiah?

Deborah Warner is directing a new production of Handel’s much used and abused sacred masterpiece for ENO

The Tsarina’s Slippers

Although Francesca Zambello’s staging of this hybrid opera-ballet is enchanting, it cannot totally hide the work’s flaws

Lucy Crowe makes her ROH debut

The singer prepares to lead as Sophie in Richard Strauss’s popular neo-rococo romantic comedy, Der Rosenkavalier

Semele

Jupiter’s mistress meets Manuel from Fawlty Towers in an oddly accented staging of the opera by some talented young singers

Swanhunter

Jonathan Dove’s new opera is consummately theatrical and successfully conjures a multitude of moods from scanty means