The Critics

We have been here before

A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile

Online drama can be a hit

Some of the shortcomings of the theatre turn to benefits in digital translation

The only thing to do is dance

When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show

Wildest dreamland

It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom

Welcome to the unfrozen North

How Canada reinvented its musical prowess

Men beware women

How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte

Losing my head over Catherine

How the musical sensation, Six, uncovers more than just the stories of Henry VIII’s wives

The Marbles won’t be lost

Is this the end of the Elgin Marbles debate?

Bring on the therapists

Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy

Reel hell of the Western Front

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester