Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and televised even more frequently (a Mexican incarnation materialised in 2023).

Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a production of King Lear, provocatively gender-swapped; a troublesome diva in the title role; and a near-silent ...

Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as fat as she used to be. And that’s the premise of BIG, in which she describes why she has been ...

"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist–novelist-director Dag Johan Haugerud, whose new film Oslo Stories: Dreams is all about the ...

The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as "peak Sellers", a period when the great comic actor rarely seemed to put ...

A rare cloud form envelopes the headland and to the east and the west Folkestone is cut off from the known world. This mist ...

Rhys Darby, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Rhys Darby, the New Zealand actor and comic best known as Murray Hewitt in Flight of the ...

You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city ...

Molly Tuttle is a star of the US bluegrass scene whose last couple of albums have broadened her appeal. On them she wandered ...

There are, inevitably, certain challenges when reviewing a one-to-one immersive show that’s already pretty much sold out its ...

One of the more interesting tracks on Paul Weller’s fascinating new cover versions album Find El Dorado is his interpretation ...

I like to think I’m open to most things, but even so I never thought that I’d be getting an education in prog metal in the ...