Review

Some inventions sounded, and even looked, brilliant, only to fall flat. But that isn’t always the end of the story for great ideas.

This online panto embraces the new format while keeping all the old traditions alive and well, says TIM WALKER

Netflix's A Classic Horror Story deserves a wider audience, says MEGAN NOLAN

James Graham’s plays feel as if they’re about little more than actors regurgitating vast quantities of Wikipedia, says TIM WALKER

The play is as chaotic as the times we are living in, and offers some much needed laughter.

The new festive release from Netflix is unwatchable. Perhaps all involved in the production had some serious tax bills to pay, wonders MEGAN NOLAN.

Focusing on 20 outstanding leaders, Andrew Adonis writes with passion and excitement, says ex-Speaker of the House JOHN BERCOW.

Powerful and poignant, the production is the National Theatre at its best.

Producer Bill Kenwright understands that the theatre is a place to laugh, and no more so than after this last year.

An exhibition of photos by Sefton Samuels evokes memories of football, long before the monied Premier League took over.

Bolstered by Tory scandals and a new shadow cabinet, Keir Starmer should heed a newly published account of one of his party’s darkest hours, which turns the Red Wall narrative on its head.

This mesmerising and captivating production is as breathtaking as the film.

The highly accomplished actor drones on and provides a bore of a performance.

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie is an ode to his home city and to the football genius who once graced it.

Aspects of the show depicting the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair seem so odd, different and plainly wrong that it feels like science fiction.

The Charles Dickens classic has been staged for the fifth time, and still speaks to modern audiences.

One day, great plays will be written about far-right groups, climate change and racism, but Manor is not one of them.

He was a Russian nobleman. He was a secret agent. And his best friend was Lee Harvey Oswald. Meet George de Mohrenschildt.

A new documentary about the former Arsenal manager reveals a man still in love with the club, but also still heartbroken by it.

This Jane Austen parody is hard to critique... as the cast has clearly predicted every criticism they could receive.

Zadie Smith's modern, relocated take on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath is a bold reimagining.

The film adaptation of Nella Larsen's novel is a sumptuous and seductive tale of segregation.

A Samuel Beckett double-bill portrays the challenges women face across the different stages of their life with triumph.

The show's ending may be sloppy, yet sentimental, but it's the production's looks that captivates audiences.

A new exhibition of works by Pablo Bronstein couldn’t be more apt, as it reveals the ecological cost of material gratification.

The 1995 killing of style tycoon Maurizio Gucci is such a captivating tale it’s astonishing that it has taken so long to get to the big screen.

Roxana Silbert adapts Marsha Norman's Pulitzer prize-winner novel for the stage to portray a sensitive issue superbly.

The show began it's life as a podcast. But, it simply doesn't translate to the stage.

A new exhibition of portrait paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shows how Renaissance artists captured their subjects almost as clearly as we can on our phones today.

Before he got to Hollywood the filmmaker worked as a journalist in his native Europe. A new book tries to draw the links between his two careers.

Dino Kelly, who plays Mili, is a name worth remembering as TIM WALKER predicts he's set for stardom.

It may be a homage to life on the set of Jaws, but the absence of a shark means the production lacks bite.