Review

The American actor's solo show is eloquent - if sometimes self-indulgent

Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets

He wrote three operas with Mozart and ended up working at a grocers in New York City: meet Lorenzo da Ponte

A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement

The humble Friday night takeaway staple is a magnificent immigration success story

A new show reveals the American artist’s many changes of direction, from condemning racism and violence to the calm of everyday life

The latest reboot of Sunset Boulevard veers into self-indulgence

Born a century ago, the Italian author was the best kind of writer, because he understood what it was to be a reader

There was much more to Tove Jansson than the troll family that made her famous

Amid an explosion of young British talent, Sir Anthony Hopkins brings London’s Film Festival to tears with his performance in One Life

An adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel makes for a startling production

It is eternally imperilled and eternally inspiring. A new book celebrates the great art made in and about the city that makes spirits float

A new translation of a novel on the rise of Nazism holds lessons for our current populist age

A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones

Patient theatregoers will be richly rewarded with Bronagh Lagan's production of the Paul Gallico book

How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe

Every year, a French beauty spot devotes a weekend to UK movies. An eccentric outlier or a harbinger of a new post-Brexit entente cordiale?

A blockbuster new exhibition interrogates the role, purpose and cost of deceit and misdirection

It gave the world Freud and a host of cultural figures. But as a new book celebrates Austria’s capital, what about its footballers?

“My life didn’t please me, so, I created my life,” she once said, and it was with scissors that she did so

Richard Jones's revival displays perfectly what a preposterous activity our national obsession is

For a West End production, this show was simply not up to the mark

At a time when we have seen so much of the worst of it, this show appears to be tapping into something big

A new Netflix drama sees a 17-year-old Polish migrant return from exile in Wales to battle racism, sexism and Romany traditions

Ira Sachs’ latest movie is the year’s frankest and most sensual film – a thoughtful and provocative exploration of human emotions

If history had been different, Lope de Vega might have been regarded as the greatest dramatist of them all

Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters

Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway

For the author Maylis de Kerangal, reading one of her books in another language is like hearing a familiar tune on a new instrument

The city’s unloved museum of archaeology shines after a makeover that makes its treasure trove of objects sing

Simon Williams has written a very clever and thoughtful play with an unusually sure grasp of the human condition