Review

A comedy which seemed fresh and inventive many years ago now seems limp and hackneyed

A musical inspired by George Takei's early life has a tremendous emotional charge

An exhibition explores the life of the sculptor before and during her years in Cornwall

Two late works shed light on his four-decade link with a remarkable scientific institution

No one knows more about touring than Bill Kenwright and his production of The Shawshank Redemption is a typically accomplished affair

This production of Lillian Hellman’s play once again makes the point that the Donmar Warehouse is a centre of theatrical excellence

A new book tells the story of two of Britain’s most famous mystics

The work of four female artists in the Royal Academy’s Making Modernism show speaks volumes about their troubled lives

This play seems to want to challenge stereotypes, but inadvertently and ridiculously reinforces them

Sri Lankan ghosts, queer love and a fictional nation all made for riveting reading this year

There isn’t a member of the cast who isn’t firing on all cylinders but, at two-and-a-half-hours, this portrayal of telesales women feels much too long

The play divides critics, but this production will convert any punters

A Storm for Christmas fails to deliver more than the usual festive tropes… but perhaps it doesn’t need to

A searing music memoir, goshawks and John Donne all featured in 2022’s best non-fiction

Unveiling Vienna-bound Gustav Klimt’s pan-European inspirations

The National's Christmas folie de grandeur is simply unforgivable

This adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel is funny, seditious, intelligent, courageous and beautiful

The writing in Glory Ride – A New Musical feels raw and so do the lyrics, but this show has a fascinating yarn to tell

It is genuinely startling and shocking that this is the first Othello from a black director at a major venue

In the 1980s Bilbao was on its knees. A hugely ambitious new art gallery changed all that

No amount of effort can get over this dime-a-dozen children's show's innate tiredness

Over the years this enormously popular production has taken on a life of its own

Winter nights in Iceland are long and dark – just how writers like them

The Dutch craze for flowers made and lost fortunes – and produced some remarkable works of art

This pared-down production is theatre at its most basic and minimalist

This farce is a limp, boring and painfully unfunny exercise in folie de grandeur

A transfixing reflection on the plight of asylum seekers should be at the top of Suella Braverman’s watch list

Largely unheralded during her lifetime, Slovakian sculptor Mária Bartuszová is now hailed for her richly feminine visual language

Amy Trigg’s play about life with spina bifida is a tremendous piece of writing and acting, but repeats are for television

The fundamental problem with this musical is that it just doesn’t really have any memorable music

The UK Jewish film festival forces us to confront the past, no matter how agonising

A show about shallow people really shouldn’t be so shallow itself. Sadly, this production falls into this trap