Chichester Festival theatre Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel shows how the sisters refuse to be passive victimsWife Number 2 to serial husband, King Henry VIII, first to be beheaded and a marital trigger for the Reformation, Anne Boleyn is without doubt a star of the Tudor age, her life and death finely documented.What is lesser...

The socialite and collector prioritised art over family and claimed she had 1,000 lovers. But a new UK exhibition tells another tale – that of the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex leading a relatively ordinary life, as her granddaughter explains Beside the Grand Canal, on a wall of the palazzo she called home for 30 years, a portrait of...

Dundee Rep Morna Young’s new adaptation, directed by Finn den Hertog, captures the earthiness of rural life in early 1900s Scotland, but it needs to dig deeperIn front of a backdrop suggesting a sunset-streaked sky is set a square of bare brown earth. Loose soil is sectioned into four rows by wooden beams that hold it in shape as actors move on to and...

Royal Festival Hall, London Jurowski’s attention to detail across four-and-a-half hours brought the darkness of Wagner’s score thrillingly to lifeWagner’s Ring cycle is famously long. Even so, a cycle that has lasted more than six years is some kind of record. Back in 2018, Vladimir Jurowski was still the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s principal conductor...

Brighton Dome Ranganathan’s Hustle delivers laughs, but not the shock of the new. It is at its best when we glimpse something meaningful beneath the standard-issue curmudgeonliness‘I’ll be honest with you: I’m getting sick of me too.” His TV ubiquity now the stuff of other comedians’ – and his own – punchlines, how can Romesh Ranganathan justify another...

As Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed tennis film Challengers makes its case for sporting immortality, critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the genre’s undisputed heavyweightsChallengers reviewed by Wendy IdeAnalogies of life as sport have been exhausted by every PE teacher in existence. In the movies, however, they’re eternally renewable. Take Challengers, Luca...