Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) review – a magic hour
Kate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond
The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star-stuffed entertainment
There’s much to enjoy in this adaptation of Osman’s ingenious book, with Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and Pierce Brosnan as the senior-citizen X-Men
‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?
Deaf Republic, a collection of war poems written by the Ukrainian American Ilya Kaminsky, have caused a sensation. Now they have been turned into an extraordinary play
Sense and Sensibility review – blue-chip cast decorates Emma Thompson’s pleasurable Austen adaptation
Thirty years later, this richly enjoyable film is back with its quality lineup including Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant alongside Thompson herself
‘I’ve seen tough, rugby-playing men cowering’: how we made theatre horror The Woman in Black
‘It’s rare to really frighten a theatre audience. So it surprised us when people said, “I didn’t sleep for three nights after seeing your show”’
‘I’ve got my own theory’: Val McDermid play investigates death of Christopher Marlowe
Crime writer says her conclusion on the circumstances of the 16th-century playwright’s killing ‘will surprise people’
Grief is the Thing With Feathers: why Max Porter’s strange but ‘magnificent’ debut keeps inspiring adaptations
With a new Australian stage version and a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch later this year, the author’s boundary-pushing novella continues to soar
‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves
A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy place
The Zola Experience review – life follows art as stage relationship spills into real-life romance
When actor-director Anne Barbot embarks on an adaptation of a Zola novel with her neighbour, the gap between theatre and reality appears to collapse entirely
Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer
An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works
‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley
He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally here
‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet
Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation
Alan Strachan obituary
Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn
Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend
The author, who parlayed her experience into the award-winning novel The Spare Room, recently re-lived it while watching the stage adaptation
The Spare Room review – Judy Davis is electric in thrilling adaptation of Helen Garner novel
The powerhouse actor and the author’s keen prose fuel this show about a woman grappling with grief and rage while caring for her dying friend