Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Mamma Mia!; Elizabeth I: Virgin on the Ridiculous; Antigone

Michael White’s classical news: The Golden Cockerel; Cosi fan tutte; Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Poor lore: the shadow hanging over us

Grand slamming

Cyrano story gets a musical makeover

Review: The Forest, at Hampstead Theatre

Time to reopen the Deighton file

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Proud; Henry V; Boot; Lal

Grooves: Jamal Edwards; Blue Carpet Band; The Amadeus; Dom Pragg

Michael White’s classical news: The Creation; Andras Schiff; La Boheme

Bomb sights: stoicism and suffering in the capital

News of the word

Rosalind Franklin: honour regained

Review: The Chairs, at Almeida Theatre

Variations on a theme

A taste of adventure at brilliant Bao

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Never Not Once; When This Is Over; Measured; A Tale of Two Cities

Michael White’s classical news: The Cunning Little Vixen; Rigoletto; La Voix Humaine; Adam and Ivan Fischer

Heavy mettle: James Scarlett and the forgotten brigade

‘In trying to enthuse the students, I definitely enthused myself’