PETER MASON welcomes the national tour of an irreverent show that switches the spotlight to the wives of Henry VIII

DAVID NICHOLSON, eight-year-old BEHATI and nine-year-old SKYLAR applaud a hilarious production that doesn’t ignore the social message

SUSAN DARLINGTON is unmoved by a production full of spectacular tableax but without emotional connection to the characters

STEVE JOHNSON applauds an outstanding album that is a celebration of achievements won through collective struggle 

Short stories by Mexican Guadalupe Nettel, labyrinthine tales by Uruguayan Mario Levrero, and a poetic paranormal investigation by Colombian poet Catalina Vargas Tovar

GORDON PARSONS negotiates an exhaustive biography of WH Auden that explores his growing detachment from England

PETER MASON shivers in the under-heated ecclesiastical setting of a concert featuring five 19th-century French composers