Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
Doctor in a spin
West End zingers on stage now
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
Rooster booster
Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it
Atticus updated
A new Mockingbird is masterful
Art as resistance
This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent
Heartless Heights
Brontë’s lines anchor the frenetic action in Emma Rice’s over-the-top production
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
