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Super High Resolution review – compelling exploration of a crumbling NHS

Directed by Blanche McIntyre, Nathan Ellis’s drama serves as a reminder of what cuts are doing to our health service but it tells more than it shows

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Birmingham Royal Ballet: Into the Music review – an allegro trio

From dancers partnering with projections and CCTV-style surveillance to an engrossing piece inspired by Edvard Munch, Carlos Acosta’s company is continuing to carve out a niche

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Evening Conversations review – warm meditations from midlife

Sudha Bhuchar’s monologue, drawing on chats with her children, has much likable detail but slightly less focus than you’d wish for

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Jasmin Vardimon: Alice review – a fairytale that never quite goes through the looking-glass

A krumping Cheshire cat enlivens this well-danced adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s coming-of-age story, but Alice’s deeper life remains unexplored

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A Dead Body in Taos review – a spiritual exploration of what it means to be really free

Set in the New Mexico desert, David Farr’s unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human essence

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An Anatomy of Melancholy review – vivid musical study of an indefinable condition

In an intimate show – part a staged recital part a mini-opera - Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland’s lute songs epitomising melancholy

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Modern and major: how Gilbert and Sullivan still skewer England’s absurdities

Dismiss their works at your peril. Strip the barnacles of stale tradition off the Victorian duos’s light operettas and their seditious glory still shines

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‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

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King Hamlin review – trapped teens face up to lives at knife-point

Excellent performances enhance this story of three young boys hurtling towards gang culture

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Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

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Light of Passage review – Crystal Pite’s magnificent dance of life

The Canadian choreographer has turned 2017’s acclaimed Flight Pattern into a full-length work that brims with massed energy and profound humanity

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The week in classical: Orpheus; Apartment House review – rich, rewarding, different

Opera North’s teeming fusion of Monteverdi with Indian classical traditions is an inspired match. Elsewhere, more mind-bending harmonies from Apartment House

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A Gig for Ghosts review – a joyous musical meditation on love and death

The raucous folk songs, open-hearted performances and tender love story make this queer gig-theatre romcom a delight

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The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes review – a frank discussion of disability

Humour and rage intertwine in Back to Back theatre company’s playful debate of ethics, language and philosophy

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Light of Passage review – mesmerising moves from Crystal Pite

With shimmering music and a signature use of massed bodies, Pite transforms her acclaimed Flight Pattern into a full-length work

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Light of Passage at the Royal Opera House: Crystal Pite’s new work is deeply felt and long overdue

This ballet, expanded from the 2017 award-winner Flight Pattern, is tender and poetic

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La Bohème review – Christmas comes early to the Royal Opera House

Juan Diego Flórez delivers a winning performance as Puccini’s least mature leading man, while Danielle de Niese’s Musetta is merciless

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Sex, drugs and pas de deux: how Mayerling’s flame keeps burning

As Kenneth MacMillan’s classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson – celebrated for dancing the lead role – reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet

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‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable

Scenes that skip between universes, 100 eyeballs emerging from the floorboards, whole plays set on a slope … The scripts for Constellations, Wonder Boy and other hits have provided instructions to unleash the imagination

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Mayerling review – astounding from beginning to end

Kenneth MacMillan’s bleak psychological period piece is a gift for the Royal Ballet’s dancers, who take turns in performances of gripping, in-the-moment power

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The Coral review – urgent parable of poverty and the one percent

Georg Kaiser’s century-old call for a societal reset may not always hit the mark, but it is given an invigorated panache by Collide theatre company

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‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?

Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out

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Tosca review – gloriously sung and full of grand passion, this is gripping theatre

Christof Loy’s atmospheric staging of Puccini’s opera doesn’t always cohere, but its psychological probing proves powerful and Adam Smith is a tremendous Cavaradossi

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The best theatre to stream this month: Billie Holiday’s blues, McKellen’s Lear and Newsies

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story

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Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby review – Rambert’s dancers descend into opium-fuelled despair

Benoit Swan Pouffer’s swaggering dancers fly, fling and slide across the stage in this energetic, menacing prequel-style show

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