Scouts in Bondage

This blend of Boy’s Own adventure and Carry On caper, more fatuous than funny, is too weak to offer much entertainment

Roman Tragedies

Ivo van Hove’s highly original production suggested that politics haven’t dated much since Shakespeare’s or, indeed, Roman times

1984

This production buzzes with dynamism but it falls short on conveying the sour flavour of George Orwell's riveting prose

Mrs Warren’s Profession

Shaw’s play spews out more ideas than it knows how to resolve, but is a surprising period piece, ahead of its time

Dr Frank-N-Furter requests that you stay silent

The Rocky Horror Show has been stripped back. ‘It’s no panto – we want people to listen,’ says its star David Bedella

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

Marilyn and Ella: the odd friendship

Marilyn Monroe helped to kickstart Fitzgerald’s career, but these Fifties icons shared more than a love of jazz

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 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