The best dozen dance shows of 2025 – a legacy of memories from Graham Watts’ year in dance 29 December 202524 October 2026
Critics round-up: Royal Ballet’s “Birthday Offering”, “A Month in the Country” and “Noces” 9 July 201220 February 2016
Critics Round-Up: An ‘imaginatively crafted delight’ or a ‘thin ballet’? Royal Ballet’s Alice 25 March 201216 June 2025
Critics round-up: Mariinsky at Covent Garden, Scotch Symphony / Ballet Imperial / In The Night 18 August 201131 May 2014
Critics round-up: Sylvie Guillem at Sadler’s Wells – “Dancers have a cruelly curt use-by date. They’re better fresh. Or are they?” 7 July 201120 February 2016
Critics round-up: Strictly Gershwin with the English National Ballet at London’s Royal Albert Hall 16 June 201120 February 2016
Simon Keenlyside is “singing on the top of his form” or has a “tendency to shout tonelessly”? 15 June 201119 September 2013
Critics round-up: Royal Ballet Triple Bill – Scènes de ballet – Voluntaries – Rite of Spring 15 June 201120 February 2016
Critics round-up: Ballo della regina (Balanchine) – Live Fire Exercise (Wayne McGregor) – Danse à grande vitesse (Christopher Wheeldon) 18 May 201124 October 2026
“Ideas batter me like hailstones. Who am I?” – Frankenstein at the National Theatre 28 February 201131 May 2014
Anna Nicole’s breasts loom largely on the Royal Opera House stage – “I’ll eat my six-gallon hat if it’s not a stonking great hit.” 18 February 201113 April 2013
The worst and the worst of the Spider-man reviews: a round-up of the first “official” reviews 8 February 201114 March 2024
