Martin Creed either doesn't know or doesn't think it matters that ballet has been eulogised, parodied and deconstructed by everyone from the great Balanchine to Morecambe and Wise... more
Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball was a fabulous, sense-tingling spectacle, part Busby Berkeley, part your favourite gay bar, part The Wanderers and part Wizard Of Oz.... more
Among the many curious delights of the British Library's extraordinary audio archive of world and traditional music is a haunting field recording of an Australian aborigine crying for a dead companion... more
Even in our age of civil partnerships, Jerry Herman's farcical musical comedy La Cage aux Folles wrestles alluringly with a dilemma that could induce shudders of gay anxiety today.... more
Bad Girls needs a touch more lesbian liberation. Despite a criminology professor's plaudits in the programme it offers no indictment of our primitive penal policy for women, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
The craze for turning the public into a nation of casting directors has not worked with Grease. Is it not high time producers found real stars for musicals again, asks Nicholas de Jongh.... more
If anyone had the temerity to doubt Beyoncé's star quality and her place in the diva pantheon, they would doubt no more after her Wembley show, says John Aizlewood.... more
A family-friendly merger of burlesque and water ballet at the art-deco swimming house at Queensway's Porchester Centre was deeply silly but delightful and glorious at the same time.... more
Moses Pendleton's new show Lunar Sea draws on ideas of the moon, stars, planets and galaxies and pulls out all the stops on visual gee-wizzery.... more
Dance director Busby Berkeley was known for his innovative use of the camera as "roving eye". For roving eye read "peeping Tom", a fact Yippeee!!! has grasped with characteristic glee.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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