Theatre

Anton & Giovanni Together: the Live Tour, review: A mediocre start, but the show finishes with a bang

The repartee is often wanting, but the excellent Together company and a beautiful tango from Pernice keeps the energy at feverish levels

The Caretaker: Ian McDiarmid is superb as Pinter’s pathetic tramp

The Star Wars actor is wonderfully chameleonic in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s smartly timed revival of this post-war comedy of menace

Operation Mincemeat: the West End hit is still the perfect mix of ingenious, silly and moving

With a new cast, the Olivier Award-winning musical about the wartime operation is as terrific as ever

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Shakespeare gets the suburban sitcom treatment

Despite the absurd trigger warnings, the RSC’s take on the Bard’s comedy is fittingly cartoonish – with a gloriously twittish Falstaff

Les Dennis’s Malvolio is easy to mock in this youthful Twelfth Night

The TV presenter gets plenty of laughs as the pompous steward in this kid-friendly production. But it doesn’t plumb the play’s true depth

A Child of Science: The Crown’s Meg Bellamy shines in an inspiring dramatision of the birth of IVF

Joined by Harry Potter’s Tom Felton, Bellamy confirms her star potential in this gripping play about the breakthrough that changed the world

My Fair Lady: This staging of Bernard Shaw’s morality tale is a roof-raising success

The latest co-production by Leeds Playhouse and Opera North is as accomplished in social commentary as it is in plot, music and song

Suite in Three Keys: This remarkable Noël Coward triptych is exactly what the National ought to be doing

The staying-power of the principals in this triple-bill at the Orange Tree should win awards – Tara Fitzgerald has never been better