Play
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
A maverick medic
A theatrical biography of a life saver
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
