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The critics
This new series examining shocking miscarriages of justice in UK law is gripping – and depressing
Saturday, 28 March 2026
Long a source of local pride, the Mold theatre becomes a monument of culture designed with access, diversity and festivity in mind
Sunday, 29 March 2026
Michael Angelo Covino’s curiously dated rom-non-monogamy-com lacks the crucial ingredient: chemistry
An ill-judged work by Kameron N Saunders opens a double bill redeemed in the second section
Robyn returns with dancefloor heartbreak on her apologetic ninth album, while Raye impresses with a euphoric ode to joy. Plus one to watch, Xaviersobased
Alfred Enoch is dynamic in a production that prioritises combat scenes over moral probing
The painter fuses recollections of post-Windrush life in the Midlands with the lush Caribbean homeland he never knew
Channel 5’s drama about the newsreader’s abuse of power is let down by sensationalism
Friday, 27 March 2026
Classical music’s best and brightest gathered to hear the first concert premiere ever held beneath Michelangelo’s frescoes
Rebecca Lucy Taylor is fierce and funny in this compulsively entertaining examination of the end of the 1960s dream
An idealistic young official is ensnared in tyrannical Soviet-era bureaucracy in Ukrainian director Sergei Loznita’s superb, slow-burning drama
Thursday, 26 March 2026
Sturgill Simpson takes on ICE, Trump and the broligarchy on an incendiary record
Saturday, 21 March 2026
Gorky’s strange drama about unhappy Russians at a seasonal retreat is given fizzing new energy by writers Nina and Moses Raine
Matthew Xia’s powerfully acted but uneven production retells Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel spanning colonial Jamaica and postwar Britain
Sunday, 22 March 2026
Full of the joys of spring, In Bloom offers an illuminating history of plants in painting
Friday, 20 March 2026
The vilified female executive Kristin Cabot is a compelling guest, but Winfrey’s podcast is still flawed. Plus, the dirty business of clean energy
A newly converted barn sits among the modest grandeur of bronze sculptures and sheep on the sculpter’s Hertfordshire estate
Gus Van Sant’s taut, no-frills account of the real-life abduction of a mortgage executive is laced with caustic humour
This insistently feelgood, thunderously dumb sci-fi adventure tries too hard to be loved
The former Talking Heads star reimagines the possibilities of the gig format on his riotous Who Is the Sky? tour
