Review

A play that’s as light and refreshing as a glass of champagne

Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding

Le Beaujolais, London’s oldest French wine bar, is a timeless haven of wit, warmth and wonder

After co-writing The Thick of It and Veep, Ian Martin channels his most absurd politician yet – Boris Johnson

The male film director who puts powerful females first

Francis Ford Coppola’s hell-for-leather sci-fi epic was 40 years in the making and is an extraordinary film that defies convention

Aunty May’s in Newlyn is a hidden gem where Cornwall’s grandest pasties can be found

Daring choices are vindicated in the writer’s brilliant new novel about a chess player, his brother and their family

Many shows come with a content warning, but the poignant and bold My English Persian Kitchen comes with an allergy warning

The surprising origins of The Prisoner of Zenda, the ultimate swashbuckling tale of derring-do

The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, tackles alcoholism, sobriety and an outsider’s search for the soul of Europe

This breathtaking, unspolit Greek island is home to Cantina, a hyper-local restaurant established by Giorgos Samoilis

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Ben Whishaw delights his fans, but the yawnometer goes off the scale

The Noel Coward play that became a hit film gets a new lease of life

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

The innovative works of Norway’s Anna-Eva Bergman, realised in metal leaf, bear comparison with Rothko and Klimt

A major influencer in China visited and sparked a recurrent wave of visitors eager to try the same dishes they did

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, books and cinema

An intelligent and fearless French novel of clear-eyed anger digs deep into contemporary morality

Tom Stoppard’s play now seems irredeemably dated

Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

The third Death of England play is funny and dazzling.. even watching its audience is a joy

Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is an uncompromisingly honest memoir of a lost teenage soul, of adventure, rebellion and the echoes of memory

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

There’s plenty of life in the latest 39 Steps revival

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on

Hanna Pylväinen’s new novel is a haunting tale of love and conflict set in the Sápmi lands of northern Europe in the 19th century

It’s time for a long exposure for the avant-garde Bauhaus photographer

Fiddler On The Roof is theatre at its best

A dull and thankless endeavour makes you feel sorry for audience and actors