Franco Milazzo

There’s a certain neat irony at the heart of this. A female director, returning to this opera for a second season (and for its third outing in Holland Park's semi-open staging), has chosen to stay largely faithful to a work whose central idea is that women are inherently unfaithful.

Mae West famously asked, "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?" Well, at the beginning of the relationship, they will no doubt be very happy to see you.

Death, it turns out, is an excellent alibi for a party, even one being held in your honour. Legendary magician, beloved family man and complete fiction Dieter Roterburg has sadly died and his wake is being held nightly in the tunnels beneath Waterloo train station.

The stories about Francis Albert Sinatra are endless. Two decades before Beatlemania hit the States, thousands of girls queued around the block so

Putting on something which is so sexy, sensuous and deeply erotic in the middle of a heatwave could be asking for trouble, yet this production of

Plenty to admire in The Misanthrope, but little to love Sandra Oh headlines an ambitious revival of The Misanthrope that values intellect and satire over heart and connection

Get all the top news & discounts for UK & beyond. Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust for good reason.

Twenty-eight years ago, The Ladyboys of Bangkok made a brief appearance at what was then the Queen's Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue (now the Sondheim, which has committed itself to Les Misérables with a fervour that makes Swifties look fickle). Now the company has finally brought its full touring operation to London. The Sabai Pavilion — a vast pink tent pitched on Shepherd's Bush Green, fragrant with pad thai and ambition — houses what the company bills as its official London debut: a two-hour kathoey cabaret revue now in its twenty-sixth year of nine-month UK tours.

Get all the top news & discounts for UK & beyond. Move over Punchdrunk: the longest running immersive drama in the world has arrived in the UK.

Get all the top news & discounts for UK & beyond. All's fair in love and war — at least until the hero storms in on a tank.