Hugh Grant’s acting career has experienced a well-earned renaissance in recent years

David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics

The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?

I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions

As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry

Does age-blind casting work when adapting Shakespeare?

How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the show will go on again; it always does

As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works

Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom