From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation

Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes

West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness

People can put down their phones for the duration of concert

Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times

Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love

Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove

A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten

Books, beaches and a beloved bullet

From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age