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Flamenco Festival, Sadler's Wells, London At Swim Two Boys, Riverside Studios, London

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT

Every February for the past nine years, the Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival has endeavoured to beam some Spanish sun into chilled, grey souls. In the early days the components were predictable.

Absent Friends, Harold Pinter, London The Way of the World, Crucible, Sheffield The Devil and Mr Punch, Barbican Pit, London

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT

A large clock projects on to the front curtain at the start of Absent Friends, its second hand spinning.

First Night: The King's Speech, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT

It has raked in more than $400m worldwide.

Absent Friends, Harold Pinter Theatre, London

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:46:48 GMT

A recurring figure in the world of Alan Ayckbourn is the utterly well-meaning interloper who, by his cheerful immunity from the woes of the others, wreaks emotional havoc amongst the depressed, fragile people on whom he descends.

The Heresy of Love, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:30:16 GMT

Eight years ago, in their excellent Spanish Golden Age season, the RSC presented the English premiere of House of Desires, a surprising event on several levels.

Master Class, Vaudeville Theatre, London

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:50 GMT

"Is this a classroom or a circus?" asks Maria Callas at one point in Terrence McNally's 1995 piece that is partly based on the masterclasses that La Divina, her voice now wrecked, gave at the Juilliard School in New York in the early 1970s.

Jealousy, The Print Room, London

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:28:57 GMT

Jealousy is the first dance work presented by The Print Room, a new venue in west London.

Jealousy The Print Room London

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:28:57 GMT

Jealousy is the first dance work presented by The Print Room, a new venue in west London.

Sex with a Stranger, Trafalgar Studios 2, London

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:21:23 GMT

The singular comic talents of Stefan Golaszewski are mostly expended on works for television - as in Him & Her, a sitcom that applies Royle Family techniques to twentysomething slackerdom with intermittently hilarious results.

Bloody Poetry, Jermyn Street Theatre, London

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:06:07 GMT

The hotel on the other side of Lake Geneva cashed in on the delicious shamelessness of it. They hired out binoculars so that tourists could gawp pruriently at the Villa Diodati and its scandalous summer menage of the Shelleys; the "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" Byron, and Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's half-sister, who had slept with both poets and was carrying Byron's baby.

The Rodin Project, Sadler’s Wells, London

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:53:31 GMT

It takes a while for The Rodin Project, the latest work from choreographer Russell Maliphant, to get out from under its own draperies. Inspired by the work of the French sculptor, with a fascinating cast who can do everything from hip hop to burlesque, the show spends too long in artistic poses.

She Stoops to Conquer, NT Olivier, London The House of Bernarda Alba, Almeida, London The Changeling, Young Vic, Maria, London

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT

Location, location, location. Marlow, a young city buck out in the sticks, has lost his bearings in Oliver Goldsmith's 18th-century comedy She Stoops to Conquer. Sporting fancy breeches and tricorne hats, Marlow and his chum Hastings are played with prancing brio by Harry Hadden-Paton and John Heffernan in a handsome production – an oak-panelled set spinning on the Olivier's grand revolve.

The Dream/ Song of the Earth, Royal Opera House, London Without Warning, Old Vic Tunnels, London

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT

If anyone had set out on Wednesday night feeling short-changed by the absence of Sergei Polunin – scheduled to dance his first Oberon at Covent Garden but now in self-imposed exile – they had forgotten about it by the interval.

Without Warning The Old Vic Tunnels London

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:01:58 GMT

Without Warning has a brilliant location, but takes a while to make the most of it.

The Changeling, Young Vic, London

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:57:41 GMT

All the world is a madhouse at the Young Vic lately.

The Dream/Song of the Earth Royal Opera House London

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:07:11 GMT

Frederick Ashton’s The Dream and Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth are two of The Royal Ballet’s most-loved classics, making a terrific double bill.

The Pitchfork Disney, Arcola, London

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:05:14 GMT

It's the twenty-first anniversary of Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney, the play that is often credited as being the started point of the 1990s "In-Yer-Face" school of writing.

Midnight Tango, Aldwych Theatre

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:34:03 GMT

In Midnight Tango, Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace make traditional big entrances.

She Stoops to Conquer, Olivier, National Theatre

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:32:24 GMT

I was amused to see a credit for an Etiquette Consultant in the programme for the National Theatre's new She Stoops to Conquer.

Men in Motion, Sadler’s Wells, London

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:27:19 GMT

Men in Motion, a celebration of male dancing arranged by Ivan Putrov, was upstaged before the curtain went up.

Men in Motion, Sadler’s Wells, London

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:25:22 GMT

Men in Motion, a celebration of male dancing arranged by Ivan Putrov, was upstaged before the curtain went up.

The House of Bernarda Alba, Almeida, London

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:23:39 GMT

Bijan Sheibani's mesmerically haunting and handsome production of this 1936 Lorca classic is performed in one hundred interval-less minutes.

Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour, The O2 Arena, London

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:14:04 GMT

Panto season is still with us. The Strictly Come Dancing live tour is a re-enactment of the television series, with everybody playing themselves. The cheesy training videos, the judges’ comments and the audience votes are all there, with flashes of dancing amid the glitter.

Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour, The O2 Arena, London

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:12:31 GMT

Henry V and The Winter's Tale, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham (4/5, 4/5)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:08:50 GMT

Jingoistic jamboree or anti-war drama? The bracing thing about Henry V is that it is both.