Review

This play presents another example of a risk averse post-pandemic West End and it should do better than that

A play about immigration that shakes away smugness, with a powerful over-arching message - be kind.

By and large, classic films should not be rehashed as stage productions, writes TIM WALKER. But, this musical makes an exception.

From France comes a giant leap in tales about life on housing estates.

While the show has its successes and has the power to save the West End, it leaves audiences cold, writes TIM WALKER

Inevitably funny and sad simultaneously, a 5-star review for a production that doesn't shy away from political issues

A seamless musical experience from Des McAnuff where it is a hard task not to have a blast

The revolving stage is the star of this so-so show from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Emerald Fennel

Kae Tempest's Paradise can only stir up a storm in a teacup

Nick Payne’s Constellations makes for a long evening and a theatrical let-down

Both Succession and The White Lotus examine how the other half live with a satirical eye which makes for pleasing watching, writes MEGAN NOLAN

Lucy Bailey's production of Oleanna shows the play has not ages well.

Jonathan Church’s production leaves audiences out in the rain with a three-star performance

How Jean Dubuffet reinvented cityscapes, the female nude.. and even his own work. By CLAUDIA PRITCHARD

Post-lockdown audiences are treated to a fun-filled evening, courtesy of Jason Donovan and Alexandra Burke

Anything Goes with Robert Lindsay and Felicity Kendal makes for a 5-star theatre experience, despite the kooky plot

Actor Stanley Tucci's Searching For Italy is the food travel show we need right now

A new exhibition shows how Bristol’s love of what used to be called graffiti art fuelled a global movement

New Netflix series Workin’ Moms gets close to exploring some fascinating issues, but sticks to safer, more tedious territory My best friend is, in her public life, a remarkably accomplished person who worked in an underserved charity sector for years and went on to use that knowledge to create new academic courses on the subject. She’s got […]

Nina Hamnett's artistic career shone brilliantly and briefly, until overshadowed by her lifestyle. A new show restores the focus on her work

TIM WALKER reviews a theatre production that held its own against the drama provided by the Three Lions

TIM WALKER on an ebullient show that creates an emotional occasion

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a new book which offers a many-layered commentary on modern France and explores the malevolence that can lurk deep within communities  Sometimes it’s the tiny details that really get to you. A passing mention, an aside, something that should seem practically irrelevant but, wham, hits you right in the heart. In Samira Sedira’s […]

TIM WALKER on a musical production which ticks many boxes, but leaves uncomfortable questions in the way it treats the issue of suicide Heathers The Musical Theatre Royal Haymarket, London; till Sept 11 *** It’s almost axiomatic that edgy, cutting edge theatre will cause offence in some quarters. Productions such as Hair – the musical that came […]

MEGAN NOLAN on how the show has moved from frivolous, enjoyable time-waste to water-cooler emblem of national interest ITV’s reality dating show behemoth Love Island is back again, improbably, having weathered multiple genuine tragedies, a smattering of controversy, and the interruption of a plague year in which kissing was illegal. Our contestants have quarantined and are […]

A new book and exhibition focuses on the emperor’s appetite for the paintings and sculptures of the lands he conquered.

TIM WALKER reviews a cheering show breathing fresh life – and fun – back into theatre Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Garrick Theatre, London **** Playing the first Monday of each month Theatre professionals have long been aware of the need to attract younger audiences and the pandemic has given this a new impetus. Even with their two […]

TIM WALKER on Amélie the Musical at the Criterion Theatre in London. An admirable effort, but for what purpose? I counted 16 cast members on the stage in Amélie the Musical and I was stunned. It’s the sort of thing that, before the pandemic, I would have taken for granted. Now, I find myself fixating on the arithmetic: West […]

A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum examines the tools of the cruel slavery trade It looks like a dog collar, albeit a rather fine one, in richly decorated brass and engraved with acanthus leaves. Dated 1689, it is embossed with the names of its owners, Maurits, Count of Nassau La Lecq and his wife. When […]

Megan Nolan on Believe Me, a show which seems to stray the wrong side of the fine line trod by true crime series In Tampa, Florida, in 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey (now Lisa Noland), suffered an unimaginably extreme trauma after being kidnapped by the serial killer Bobby Joe Long. Over the course of her 26 hour […]

Jason Solomons meets Ben Wheatley, the director behind films like Kill List, Sightseers and Free Fire, ahead of the release of new movie In The Earth Everyone went to the woods in lockdown. Remember all those walks, those endless trudges through mud and twigs and leaves and into forests you’d never bothered to visit, dragging […]

A new exhibition celebrates the pioneering British artist Eileen Agar and her sideways look at the life aquatic Seven months before the outbreak of the Second World War, left wing and anti-war artists exhibited together at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore and Vanessa Bell were among those contributing some 200 works to the exhibition […]