Theatre
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
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
