Ballroom Boom

Review: The Authenticator, at Dorfman, National Theatre

Review: Kinky Boots, at London Coliseum

Review: In The Print, at King’s Head Theatre

The Last Spy: former CIA man’s extraordinary story is a warning from history

Jump start for jazz-Latino fiesta

Grooves: Legendary line-up at Ska fest

Michael White’s classical news: Salome; The Gondoliers; Julian Lloyd Webber; PIGSPIGSPIGS

From rags to rags: our enduring fascination with Billy Waters

‘I was worried about cultural appropriation, but people have the right to write about whatever they want’

Review: Teeth ’n’ Smiles, at Duke of York’s Theatre

Review: John Proctor is the Villain, at Royal Court Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: Messiah; Polyphony; The Crucifixion; Roderick Williams; The Resurrection Story

The Stranger: clever homage to mid-20th-century crisis of meaning

Man of letters: on a mission to protect the art of hand-set typography

‘We have kept day-to-day diaries since the day we met’

High hopes: when Constable moved to Hampstead

‘People were looking at the world in a more intelligent way, asking how things worked and why’

How ‘playful and poetic’ Mendini reimagined everyday objects

Seeing Joseph Wright in a whole new light