State of the art

This week on CW, Miriam Gillinson reviews a selection of current and recent London theatre productions, dissenting from the critical consensus in praise of Eugene O’Neill’s painful Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Apollo, and welcoming Enda Walsh’s Misterman at the National as a more persuasive advert for theatre as a form. Meanwhile, Federica Ancona celebrates the Royal Ballet’s triple bill of new work by Christopher Wheeldon, Liam Scarlett and Wayne McGregor as an indication that ballet is in rude health at the supposedly staid Royal Opera House.

21 April 2012