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Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company

When it opened in 1985, the mighty Les Mis got some rotten reviews. Forty years on, our writer sees it afresh and producer Cameron Mackintosh reflects on the show’s spectacular success

As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most surreal theatrical extravaganza returns to London, Katie Rosseinsky dives into its bizarre history, from early bafflement over its plot – Elvis, a bisexual engine, disembodied children! – to Arlene Phillips choreographing it all on roller skates

Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created

Bamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chekhov works like a charm

This chamber staging, movingly played by an immaculate ensemble, fits perfectly with the drama’s hothouse of disappointment

The veteran director and former head of the National and RSC’s first staging of this classic is worth the wait

Veteran British actor known for his many and varied film, TV and stage roles in a career that spanned more than 70 years

The songs may not compare to the 1949 film’s zither music, but the design amplifies Trevor Nunn’s elegantly shadowy production