Review

Even the greatest of writers – from John Steinbeck to Maya Angelou – suffer from the idea that they’re about to be found out

This musical is a joyous explosion of colour, light and good humour

There’s almost certainly a great play to be written about gay black and mixed-race men but this sadly isn’t it

How Brigitte Reimann, once an idealistic socialist, wrote one of Germany’s great post-war novels

The late Israeli actor and singer performed If I Were a Rich Man more than 3,500 times in multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof

It’s nothing short of terrifying that Tom Basden has managed to shift a story of Italian police corruption so effortlessly and convincingly to a metropolitan police station in this country

A triumphant production about life, love, growing old and dying has absolutely restored my faith in theatre

The Cuddy author has a rare gift for finding the right voice for the right people in the right era

Arguably the greatest footballer in the world has inspired a plethora of songs across Europe

Sleepova is one of those free-flowing, slice-of-life dramas that, with a no-frills staging, places a vast amount of pressure on the individual actors to make something of their parts

It’s clear everyone has tried very hard to make this show work. They failed

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime

Kælan Mikla bring their witchy synth-punk to the UK for the first time since the pandemic

Should undiscovered Terry Pratchett stories, and other posthumous work, be published?

The story of a bored Liverpudlian housewife finding love on a holiday to Greece now feels very dated

This has been said to be a dark reimagining of the old classic, but it is taking the word too literally

Mark Zuckerberg has already spent $20bn on his new virtual reality project, and it’s boring, empty and clunky

Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship

If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama

This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks

This musical set on an estate in Sheffield charts the changing times of these islands

Sylvia fails to live up to its billing as the serious rival to Hamilton it was originally intended to be

A gripping work of literary fiction – soon to be a Netflix series – sheds light on the Sámi’s plight

How a book of ancient Chinese and Indian texts influenced the work of one of Spain’s greatest modern artists

A revelatory exhibition unveils the workings of a genius

With its central theme of doomed, forbidden love, it is also a pretty odd play to put on around the time of Valentine’s Day

This play is a joyous celebration not just of great writing and acting, but also of the art of theatricality

He was a quiet man who serially painted humble, dusty objects. So what makes Giorgio Morandi one of Italy's greatest arists?

Two big names can't mask the fact that Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is ponderous, pretentious piffle

Rob Madge's moving story of their relationship with their father is a reminder of Kenneth Williams

What a new collection by some of France’s greatest writers tells us about the art of the short story

A new exhibition shows how cross-cultural fertilisation was a characteristic of the Iberian peninsula from its early history