Michael White’s classical news: Ariodante; Messiah; La Rondine; Vaughan Williams

Original landscape rivalry

It’s show time!

‘It’s one thing being an insurgent – and another being in power and being expected to run things’

Miles ahead – a centenary year

Review: End, at Dorfman, National Theatre

Review: All My Sons, at Wyndham’s Theatre

Pink-puffery and politics make Wicked: For Good a blast

Tribute to famous faces we lost over the course of the year

Michael White’s classical news: Age of Enlightenment Orchestra; Sheku Kanneh-Mason; Into the Woods; HMS Pinafore

Grooves: Rebecca Ferguson; Rob Brydon; Mwenso and The Shakes; Max Beesley; The Charlatans

‘My job is quite simply to help people sing better – and to remind them that we are in show business’

Berk’s law: when burglars and thieves ‘had a really good time’

Decks and mugs and rock’n’roll: music café will be a ‘neighbourhood hangout’ for all

Eminent Victorians

George Claessen’s brush with fame

Review: Sisu: Road to Revenge

Review: The Bloomsbury Murder

Review: Coven, at Kiln Theatre

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Continuity; My Mate Dave; Tanked; Jobsworth; The Moonstone; Private View; Porn Play; Ms Holmes & Ms Watson – Apt 2B