Theatre
Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?
Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip
Blessed plot – or maybe not
“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
Tom Stoppard – The ‘timid libertarian’ speaks for himself
Like Wilde, Tom Stoppard has finally realised the importance of being earnest
Non-nose job
In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem
Mood musical
An interesting new West End show about young millennials has echoes of far older classics
Thespians in the woods
Alexander Larman explains how pantomime went upmarket
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
