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Allan Clayton: ‘I’m your tortured tenor for hire’

His committed performances and expressive voice have made him one of today’s most admired singers. As he prepares for Jephtha at Covent Garden, Allan Clayton ponders creativity, pigeonholes and facial hair

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Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

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Nutcracker review – a Christmas dream of love that goes with a swing

A hunky Action Man opens up a sequin-clad life for the protagonist of Drew McOnie’s jazzy, out-and-proud take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet

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Knocking on the Wall review – delightful domestic surprise in Ena Lamont Stewart revival

The third play in this programme of work by Scotland’s first major modern female playwright redeems an otherwise underpowered evening

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7 Deaths of Maria Callas review – Marina Abramović dreams up a diva’s greatest hits

With murderous cameos from Willem Dafoe and live renditions of arias by a clutch of sopranos, the performance artist pays somewhat tame homage to the extraordinary singer

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It’s ahead of you! 25 festive UK shows to book for Christmas

An AI Pinocchio, Scrooge on the Cornish coast and a scouse Dick Whittington are just some of the season’s theatrical treats

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The Cellist; The Limit review – a tale of two Royal Ballet dramas

Lauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels squeezed

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La Rondine review – Opera North’s stylish Puccini is opulent and tender

Set in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoons

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La Traviata review – radical revival powered by outstanding performers

Painstakingly restored by Ruth Knight for ENO, Peter Konwitschny’s production pares the Verdi opera down to its absolute essence

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The Limit review – oppressed pair make words and steps count

Sam Steiner’s play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet grace

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Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

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Haydn Gwynne obituary

Stage and screen actor known for her TV roles in Drop the Dead Donkey and The Windsors, and as a star of musical theatre

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Free Your Mind review – Danny Boyle’s Matrix reboot is a thrilling shock to the system

The director’s collaboration with hip-hop dance company Boy Blue, designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz conveys the march of AI

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Aviva Studios opens in Manchester with Danny Boyle dance extravaganza

It is £130m over budget and four years late, but backers say it will be unlike any other arts venue in Europe

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Pam Tanowitz and David Lang: Song of Songs review – turning on the lights

Meditation on the Bible’s great love poem can feel opaque but it is performed with great precision and set to a bewitching score

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Cinderella review – entertaining if odd spin on Rossini’s opera

Jenny Ogilvie grafts a wacky ‘Night at the Museum’ concept onto the fairytale in this new production for English Touring Opera. Conductor Naomi Woo’s speeds are brisk to the point of breathlessness

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The Foreigners’ Panto review – pro-immigrant comedy is non-seasonal but timely

This musical meta comedy allegorising Britain’s hostility to immigrants arrives ahead of panto season but with perfect timing nonetheless. Unfortunately it seems under-rehearsed – a bargain basement The Play That Goes Wrong

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Iolanthe review – from Nadine Dorries to flying lords, the spiralling absurdity makes this a delight

Cal McCrystal’s joyous Gilbert and Sullivan staging returns to English National Opera packed with pantomime animals, visual and verbal gags and, above all, terrific singing

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These Demons review – sisters under siege in a haunted house

Rachel Bellman explores Jewish exorcisms and rebellion in this darkly funny, psychological play

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‘He turned every performance into a masterpiece’: readers pay tribute to Michael Gambon

The actor gave astonishing performances in works by Shakespeare, Beckett and Brecht in the West End – and he was just as unforgettable off stage, our readers remember

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Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

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Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died

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Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

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Metamorphosis review – Lemn Sissay adaptation is more poetic than dramatic

This staging of Kafka’s story is physically exciting, even tireless, but it hits an early peak of terror then has nowhere to go for two hours

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After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

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