The Great Gatsby review – a literary classic becomes a Broadway dud
F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel makes an underwhelming transfer to the stage in a bombastic yet misfiring new production
Play aims to unravel mystery of poet Nan Shepherd’s masterwork
Production examines why Scottish poet’s The Living Mountain lay unpublished in a drawer for 30 years
The Girls of Slender Means review – Muriel Spark’s postwar tale told with zingy wit
Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the second world war is shadowed by trauma but full of life and merriment
‘Although I’m tetraplegic, I’ve started to feel normal’: Hanif Kureishi on staging The Buddha of Suburbia
As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha – and why shouting at his kids is a great way to write blogs
I’m F*cking Amazing by Anoushka Warden review – a filthily frank, funny and moving debut
The British playwright’s first novel is sweary and saucy but also tender and soulful once it reveals its true heart
Eight writers win ‘freedom and time to write’ with $175,000 Windham-Campbell prizes
Honours that span fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry go to practitioners around the world including novelist Deirdre Madden and poet Jen Hadfield
The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more
Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small
Bear Snores On review – characterful creatures learn the importance of home
Fun songs and exciting immersive touches delight children and adults alike in a lively picture book adaptation from actor Cush Jumbo and Katy Sechiari
On my radar: Frank Tallis’s cultural highlights
The author and psychologist on an intimate performance of MR James’s ghost stories, a brilliant debut novel and an impossibly good pianist
Rediscovered: the long-lost script that helped The Great Gatsby become a classic
F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was a flop until a 1926 staging became a Broadway smash
Saul Reichlin obituary
Other lives: Actor whose mellifluous voice narrated hundreds of audiobooks and video games
The monster mash: Frankenstein is reanimated for dance, stitched together with Greek myths
The choreographer, writer, dancer and musician’s multifaceted, repetitive approach to art-making is nowhere more evident than in his new show, which kicks off this week in Frome
My mother, the monster – and how I came to understand and forgive her
Mother’s Day can trigger painful memories for some, but a traumatic upbringing need not define us
‘The hardest thing is for a woman to say ‘I was raped’’: Jodie Comer on the Prima Facie effect
As a novel of the hit play is published, and with a new film version in the pipeline, Comer and author Suzie Miller discuss how the drama has changed attitudes towards sexual assault
John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism
US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt’s drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David Byrne