The Critics

The Marbles won’t be lost

Is this the end of the Elgin Marbles debate?

Bring on the therapists

Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy

Reel hell of the Western Front

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester

A tale of two Harrys

Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors

Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?

Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip

Unleash this heavenly voice

The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels

Less austerity, more pizazz

Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again

Calculated absurdity

I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum

The gender discount

Women may now account for 64 per cent of fine arts graduates in Britain but research shows the old values remain entrenched, says Michael Prodger

Blessed plot – or maybe not

“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy