David Jays

Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Haghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tell us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés

This flawed take on the French ballet lacks any tension, and Carmen’s fate feels dully inevitable from the start

Carlos Acosta first tackled the tragedy of Carmen back in 2015 in a one-act work for the Royal Ballet . It wasn't a hit.

Soulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company

The last surviving member of a military band shelters from Russian bombardment in Inna Goncharova’s valiant attempt to capture the terrible essence of war

Clive Rowe and Lucie Jones star in Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s tale of a French bakery, given a wistful chamber setting

David Jays Life should be sweet as our asparagus and apricots, sigh the inhabitants of this Provençal backwater.

Gender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention

A familiar romcom isn’t an option for these two young British Muslims, who can’t shut out Islamophobia and public paranoia from their love story

The grand Russian ballet companies that once perched in London for the summer won't be returning any time soon, so the Coliseum has looked 2000