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Byline: with Dominic Cavendish For three decades, Sir Alan Ayckbourn entertained London's theatreland like no other playwright. He packed out houses, made audiences cry with laughter, amassed awards. Every year [...]

Byline: Rupert Christiansen Aquarter of a century after I first saw it - twice - The Seven Streams of the River Ota still lives vividly in my memory. A tragicomic [...]

Byline: THEATRE by Dominic Cavendish THE UPSTART CROW A delightfully silly stage spin-off to Ben Elton's Shakespeare sitcom, starring David Mitchell in his West End debut as the Bard, reprising [...]

Pretty Woman (1990) SONY MOVIES, 9.00PM **** Initially intended as a dark drama about prostitution in Nineties LA, this romcom has been a huge success. Edward (Richard Gere), a millionaire, [...]

Inside No 9 BBC TWO, 10.00PM ? Co-creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith remain on form as the fifth series of their comic anthology series kicks off - literally. At [...]

1. FILM The Lighthouse keepers Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe go mad in this ferociously entertaining maritime shocker from writer-director Robert Eggers (The Witch). With its Oscar-nominated black-and-white cinematography, gale-force-10 [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish and Claire Allfree THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Oscar Wilde's comedy has been converted (The Play That Goes Wrong-style) into a frantic two-hander entailing multiple role-playing. Not [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish, Theatre Critic A middle-aged woman confined above the waist, then up to her neck, in a mound surrounded by scorched grass, first fishing into a shopping bag [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish, Theatre Critic For three decades, Sir Alan Ayckbourn entertained London's theatreland like no other playwright. He packed out houses, made audiences cry with laughter, amassed awards. Every [...]

Byline: Michael Hogan Every Sunday, Michael Hogan picks the TV classics that you can now stream and rediscover. This week's blast from the past is Oranges are Not the Only [...]

Catherine the Great SKY ATLANTIC, 9.00PM ? As the daughter of a Russian, it's apt that Helen Mirren should play Russia's greatest empress (even if Catherine was in fact German-born). [...]

1. THEATRE A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Peter Nichols's risque 1967 tragicomedy about parenting a disabled child gets a fresh outing. Simon Evans directs Toby Stephens and [...]

CATHERINE THE GREAT Sky Atlantic, 9.00pm As the daughter of a Russian, it's apt that Helen Mirren should play Russia's greatest empress (even if Catherine was in fact German-born). And [...]

EXHIBITIONS GAUGUIN PORTRAITS by Alastair Sooke With around 50 works, this exhibition could be the season's most memorable coup: the first ever exhibition devoted to the portraiture of Paul Gauguin [...]

Byline: Bethan Holt It is the show everyone is talking about. But HBO's Succession - the epic and dark tale about a cut-throat family media empire, is not just getting [...]

Byline: Rupert Christiansen LA CENERENTOLA British Youth Opera presents its new production of Rossini's magic-free version of the Cinderella story. Peacock Theatre, London WC2 (020 7863 8222), tonight L'ELISIR D'AMORE [...]

Byline: zoe strimpel Last week I managed to hustle my way into the celeb-studded West End press night of Fleabag, wunderkind Phoebe Waller-Bridge's live one-woman show. Having first seen it [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish The last time Clive Owen was on the West End stage, it was in the wake of 9/11 and he was funny, moving, frustrated and despairing as [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish With its pivotal instance of predatory male behaviour, Measure for Measure is a snug fit for a modern MeToo production. But in his new main house production, [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish We knew already - didn't we - that Andrew Scott was very good. His beguilingly fiendish Moriarty broadcast his exceptionalism at the start of the decade. His [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish We knew already - didn't we - that Andrew Scott was very good. His beguilingly fiendish Moriarty broadcast his exceptionalism at the start of the decade. His [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish We knew - didn't we - that Andrew Scott was very good indeed. His beguilingly fiendish Moriarty broadcast his exceptionalism at the start of the decade. His [...]

Byline: Rowan Pelling Good night, sweet Fleabag, the tragicomedy that packed more humour, grief, pain, sex and yearning into each 30-minute episode than most dramas manage over many hours. By [...]

Byline: jeremy warner viewpoint After another week of twists and turns, we are no nearer knowing the outcome of the Brexit tragicomedy than we were at the beginning. The Prime [...]

Byline: Adam White Star Rating: 3 stars To witness the UK return of actor and standup comedian Aziz Ansari, best known for his star-making role on the US comedy series [...]

Byline: Dominic CavendishA CHRISTMAS CAROL Jack Thorne's carolsaturated adaptation directed by Matthew Warchus returns, bolstered by a Scrooge from Stephen Tompkinson who swings from crabbed misery to rejuvenated merriment more [...]

Byline: Jeremy Warner After another week of twists and turns, we are no nearer knowing the outcome of the Brexit tragi-comedy than we were at the beginning. The Prime Minister's [...]