It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
