The critics
Katie Mitchell’s update of Janáček’s tale about a 337-year-old provoked boos from some reactionary audience members. Plus: The Railway Children and Dead Man Walking go from screen and page to stage
Saturday, 8 November 2025
The New York hip hop duo and in-demand producer reunite on a bleak, beautiful record that doesn’t disappoint
This moving, audacious work by Nederlands Dans Theater and Complicité uses movement and intellect to explore the gulf between humanity and our environment
A superb adaption of Denis Johnson’s novella tells of the fleeting encounters and fragmented memories that make up a man
Aside from too much celebrity mwah mwah-ing, the series delivered a carnival of larks and skullduggery – and a much-needed good time on a national scale
Friday, 7 November 2025
The Spanish singer’s ecstatic new album plays with everything from flamenco to reggaeton
Plus: Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair gives camp a bad name, while Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter is simple, silly and lovely
A fearless, frenzied Jennifer Lawrence excels in Lynne Ramsay’s disturbing portrait of postpartum mania
From the moment he comes on stage in general’s uniform, striding long and easy, he is in command
It’s no small wonder we identify with the players in the Traitors castle
Thursday, 6 November 2025
The ever-curious Dutch artist, winner of this year’s Soane medal, on capturing the New York skyline and her cabinet of curiosities
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Riz Ahmed is compulsively watchable in a pleasingly slippery New-York set thriller about a whistleblower
Sunday, 2 November 2025
This Bradford city of culture commission based on Fiona Mozley’s novel is part Victorian melodrama part Grand Guignol gore
This chess-like wargame weaves story and strategy with irresistible poise
Emma Stone is terrific as a kidnapped big pharma boss in a story that is both savage and uncomfortably timely
Saturday, 1 November 2025
Dave’s searing new album is built on self-flagellation and reckonings with God
The artist’s original, larger-than-life woven effigies stand out in the Royal Academy’s pocket survey of South Asian works
The ultimate watercooler series is a theatrical, tongue-in-cheek experiment in group-think, treachery – and celebrities behaving madly
Monday, 3 November 2025
Listeners tell their spooky stories in this Halloween special, but many shouldn’t have got past a drunken chat. Plus, Keir Starmer’s musical choices fail to move
Friday, 31 October 2025
An ambitious new hairdressers’ fuses mirrors, metal and a high-end audio experience in a former Victorian storehouse
