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A nonconforming take on The Nutcracker

The Southbank Centre puts a refreshing new twist on the most established of theatrical traditions.

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Rarely have I been less touched by a production than this one – when Gloucester was blinded, the audience laughed.

By Rachel Cooke

Carlos Acosta’s playful and fiery take on the 1869 ballet is a joyful marriage of movement and music.

By Zuzanna Lachendro

Free Your Mind is a spectacle – but for a show about man and machine, it lacks the human touch.

By Pippa Bailey

Playing eight roles in this one-man Chekhov adaptation, the actor is utterly convincing.

By Pippa Bailey

In his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.

By Jason Cowley

The National Theatre production presents the manager’s path to national saviour but fails to add anything of note to our…

By Michael Henderson

Also this week: admiring the Elgin Marbles, and enduring the rigmarole of chemotherapy.

By Joan Bakewell