The Critics

Intriguing flaws

Man and Boy, Dorfman Theatre

When Kurt was better without Bert

Musical theatre forgets all but the smashiest hits from its past

A magnificent gift for Oxford

The Schwarzman Centre offers stately new facilities for all the university’s humanities departments

Vivid nostalgia

The Cunning Little Vixen, Irish National Opera, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo

Taking the hawking cure

Are rental families a real thing?

All’s fair in love

Così fan tutte, English National Opera, Coliseum

Roxy Music but they’re all Kate Bush

The Last Dinner Party are a proper rock band, but the spell is too easily broken

Wuthering lows

This film is all style and no substance

An austere opera

Boris Godunov, Royal Opera

No longer the best advert for good art

If contemporary art is stuck, what is the fix?