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At times David Calder stops both his burbling, empty chortling and blubbing, and his face becomes a dead man’s mask

The Apple Cart

The audience laughed knowingly at GB Shaw’s attack on a “scheming, humbugging” PM and a wrangling Cabinet

Cooking with Elvis

Despite some class acts this comedy about an Elvis impersonator and his sex-mad wife is only sporadically entertaining

Four stars for Spend Spend Spend!

This glorious account of one woman’s inglorious career is a belter, bursting with energy, appetite and coarse humour

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

The tots around me had no difficulty buying the idea behind this adaptation of Michael Rosen’s book, so nor should I

Eight

Ella Hickson’s nascent talent, on the evidence of this assured debut, will grow into something well worth watching

Jonathan Miller: dying is a full-time occupation

The director's capacity for invective is as virile as ever, as Sky Arts 2 dedicates a season to his 75th birthday

The Browning Version/Swansong

Peter Bowles manages to display an elegance and delicacy that show his range and defy shallow expectations of his image

End of the Road

Members of the Young@Heart Chorus defy the years with a moving performance

Carlos Acosta

A curate’s egg from the Cuban dance maestro

Pina Bausch: A life less ordinary

Indifference to the German choreographer’s work wasn’t possible — it inspired either impassioned devotion or revulsion

English National Ballet

With the orchestra placed in front and the dancers behind on a low platform, audience sight lines were appalling

Birmingham Royal Ballet

No matter what impact it might have had originally, Bintley’s The Dance House now teeters on the brink of kitsch

Pina Bausch dies suddenly

Europe’s most influential modern dance choreographer, famed for Nelken and Rite of Spring, has died at the age of 68

English National Ballet's Ballet Russes

Celebration of Sergei Diaghilev's company's centenary included world premiere of Nijinsky-inspired Faun(e) by David Dawson

Richard Alston at the Place, WC1

Blow Over may not be Alston at his most sophisticated but it hums along with buoyant energy and musical interplay

English National Ballet

That Lagerfeld tutu? It proved a case of feathery overkill, with a bulging bodice and a strangulating neckline

Jewels and Angelina Ballerina

Three-act work is final programme in Royal Ballet season while English National Ballet reprises popular dance-loving mouse

In Progress:Urban Playground

Reporting from the frontline of pop culture

Jonathan Miller: dying is a full-time occupation

The director's capacity for invective is as virile as ever, as Sky Arts 2 dedicates a season to his 75th birthday

Orlando

After morphine, red petals from the giant poppies that have formed the forest of Act II fall slowly down on Orlando

Mitridate

Lacking both coherence and conviction, this diligently researched original version limps along for three long hours

Tosca

Bryn Terfel and Angela Gheorghiu are on fighting form at the Royal Opera

Lucrezia Borgia and Veronique

Mary Plazas overcomes a severe infection to turn in a heroic performance