Crown Ballet are renowned for their fresh and invigorating takes on classic ballets (their ‘Swan Lake’ is all kinds of amazing) and at Middlesbrough Theatre in November they’re giving us ‘The Nutcracker’. You can always tell that Christmas is approaching …

Ballet Cymru’s ‘Romeo a Juliet’ has won a whole bunch of prizes and glittering notices, and thou can experience it at Dance City in early December. Is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare’s most famous work? Most popular? Probably – it’s certainly been successf…