Reviews

LGBT+

A playful celebration of queer horror history

A surprisingly comical and sweet story
31 August 2026
Environment

Digging up and revealing Wales’ toxic past

Michael Sheen has produced a powerful documentary
31 August 2026
Through re-telling Greek myths, Hadestown is a damning condemnation of capitalism
Reviews & Culture

Mythic musical shows how the system traps us

Hadestown is a damning condemnation of capitalism
18 August 2026
Students and workers channeled their anger into art to organise
Reviews & Culture

Student art exhibition organises against university cuts

Artist Mike warns, 'This is what you’ll lose'
12 August 2026
The new blockbuster cuts major parts of the original poem
Reviews & Culture

Nolan’s Odyssey fails to grasp today’s crises or the poem’s enduring power

A review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
09 August 2026
Anton Jager's Hyperpolitics
In Depth

‘Everything explodes and nothing changes’: Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics

A new politics for strange times?
02 August 2026
Reviews & Culture

Play celebrates the movement that fought Britain’s slave trade

Breaking the Silence brings grassroots movement to life
26 July 2026
The Bund fought for working class solidarity and were fierce opponents of Zionism
Palestine & Middle East

Reclaiming the radical Jewish alternative to Zionism today

Review of Here Where We Live is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
06 July 2026
Clive and Leo. played by David Morrissey and Alan Cumming
LGBT+

Tip Toe: Gripping drama a timely reminder to fight back

Tip Toe shows that when people struggle to cope with lives shaped by insecurity and uncertainty, ­reactionary ideas can take root
23 June 2026
The case was a disgrace even the legal establishment want to forget
Reviews & Culture

Catalogue of errors in Rachel Nickell’s murder now set straight

A new documentary and drama take on the case
22 June 2026
Main character Cal balances on a fine line
Reviews & Culture

John of John by Douglas Stuart: How home, loss and religion tear apart community

A review of John of John by Douglas Stuart
14 June 2026
Mother Courage and Her Children is on at the Globe Theatre (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Reviews & Culture

Mother Courage pulling her cart through love, loss and war zones

A review of the Globe's Mother Courage and Her Children
12 June 2026
The six of the Filton24 facing retrial
Palestine & Middle East

Filton 24 film puts the criminals on trial

A review of Operation Recomply
09 June 2026
Gordon Rainsford, ACT UP World AIDS Day, December 1989 (Photo: The Wellcome Collection)
LGBT+

Bearing witness and building the fightback

A review of the exhibition Tenderness and Rage
09 June 2026
Roy masterfully links private oppression to systemic rot
Reviews & Culture

A tender excavation of a brutal reckoning

A review of Mother Mary Come to Me by Arundhati Roy
09 June 2026
It exposes their bureaucratic and misogynist ­practices
Reviews & Culture

Believe Me shames the cops—and their system

It exposes their bureaucratic and misogynist ­practices
03 June 2026
A mural by Cliff Rowe (Photo: Amanda Squire)
Reviews & Culture

Celebratory exhibition tracking anti-fascist art

A review of Comrades in Art exhibition
03 June 2026
Playwright Bertolt Brecht (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Reviews & Culture

An irresistible allegory of fascism

A review of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
03 June 2026
Donald Locke's resistant forms
Reviews & Culture

Donald Locke’s unapologetic Resistant Forms

The first major survey of the artist’s work in Britain
21 May 2026
The band’s third album is a vindication for the Palestine movement
Reviews & Culture

Kneecap album raises a middle finger to the British establishment

A review of the trio’s new album Fenian
11 May 2026
outraged lawyer Alexander Kornyev, played by Aleksandr Kuznetsov, trapped in a bureaucratic maze
Reviews & Culture

A damning indictment of the brutality of Stalin’s show trials

A review of Two Prosecutors
10 May 2026
Benjamin Voisin as Meursault (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Reviews & Culture

Anti-colonialism sharply reimagined for today

A review of the new adaptation of Albert Camus' The Stranger
04 May 2026
A poster from the Grunwick strike, in the style of El Lissitzky (Photo: The People's History Museum)
Reviews & Culture

New exhibition uncovers a century of struggles

On the Line—100 Years of Strikes and Solidarity chronicles workers’ history through objects
03 May 2026
The crowd at a Rock Against Racism concert in Coventry, 1981 (Photo: John Sturrock)
Reviews & Culture

Honouring the music that transformed Britain

A review of new exhibition The Music is Black
27 April 2026