Fascinated to see Nuremberg – history of the trials told as psychological thriller – which I’m reviewing on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row with the excellent Viv Groskop and @tds153.bsky.social. Also under our beady eyes, The Hunger Games on stage and new BBC drama Wild Cherry. Thurs 7.15pm. Tune in!

Friday night and it’s all aboard for Funtime! 💜😊

The Maids review - This AI-fuelled nightmare gave me a migraine www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Last week’s theatre reviews today! My views on The Unbelievers and Ragdoll. Read now while column lasts…

A photo that sums up 2025: a man in body armor and a helmet wets himself as he shoots an unarmed and unarmored man in the face with a flashbang grenade.

Dusk approaches in Kensington Gardens

John Sandoe Books have restocked Susannah's book The Hare With the Blue Sombrero by popular request. The perfect Christmas gift for the young at heart of any age. johnsandoe.com/.../the-hare...

Solidarity is the only way

Heads up, Film Fans! A new series of #ClassicMovies starts tonight at 7.00pm on #SkyArts with the usual gang discussing Hitchcock’s drop dead masterpiece, #TheThirtyNineSteps. Author John Buchan thought it was better than his novel. #DiscoveringDianeKeaton follows at 8.00pm.

Heads up, Film Fans! A new series of #ClassicMovies starts tonight at 7.00pm on #SkyArts with the usual gang discussing Hitchcock’s drop dead masterpiece, #TheThirtyNineSteps. Author John Buchan thought it was better than his novel. #DiscoveringDianeKeaton follows at 8.00pm.

Happy Birthday to my Best Girl. Susannah ❤️🎂🎈🥳

Happy Birthday to my Best Girl. Susannah ❤️🎂🎈🥳

Kitmet

MT lawmakers are suing to make it easier to kill wolves. Yes- you read that right. Once again, wolves are being treated as targets instead of the vital, intelligent keystone species they are. Science and ethics must guide management. Wolves deserve better. www.ktvh.com/news/montana...

The latest Hamlet at The National Theatre with Hiran Abeysekera has much to like but doesn't quite work.

Latest version of The Importance of Being Earnest with Stephen Fry is both arrogant and direspectful to Oscar Wilde.

Another tragic accident.

Got to see #DeafRepublic at the Dublin Theatre Festival and it burned a memory into my brain that I’ll fondly remember for the emotion that it evoked. Oh I cried tears. It was sublime ❤️

So here’s today’s theatre column. Sloane, Dracula, Bacchae. Cor.

Sharon Small leads an excellent cast in a bold but banal Bacchae for the National Theatre's brand new Artistic Director's debut show.

Gonna get me a hat that’s says: “WAITING FOR NEO”.

This is hard news tonight. Addio, Bellissima.

Brendan Gleeson makes his West End debut in The Weir. Full review below.

They're acting in the rain/Just acting in the rain The Lady From The Sea review: Alicia Vikander stars in frustrating show www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

The Producers review: Mel Brooks nazi musical is a laugh riot www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

S'Friday again, in case you hadn't noticed. So here's my theatre column that looks at Creditors at Orange Tree Theatre and Seagull: True Story at Marylebone Theatre. Have a fantastic weekend, one and all.

Since when did political debate get reduced to playground threats? This is utterly pathetic.

Charles Dance, Nicholas Farrell and Geraldine James star in Strindberg at the tiny Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.

Wot you said

Tory MP Danny Kruger has defected to Reform... but he’s been on the Eye’s radar for nearly 20 years. Back in 2006 he had David Cameron urging the Tories to ‘hug-a-hoodie’. [From Eye 1165, August 2006]

Rosa in sunlight and leaves

Where’s Willie Mossop when we need him?

Not all Hiros wear capes

I know catcalling is considered offensive but what happens if you have to call your cat in?

Luis Buñuel’s Home Alone

Prom Night! Stravinsky, here we come! 🐦‍🔥

Putting this out again in case you missed it the first time around. #deafrepublic @royalcourttheatre.bsky.social is a wondrous piece of theatre. www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

Deaf Republic is unmissable – Other shows can only dream of being this good www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

So here we go with this week’s theatre column which looks at Juniper Blood and Interview. Hmmm.

Well, sort of. It’s still schoolboy prank time. Typical Parliamentary behaviour.

Liam & Noel Gallagher, 1993

He’s got a point…. 😂

I’m with the sunflowers, myself.

Which is where this belongs

Edward Bleumel and Ncuti Gatwa intoxicate in Born With Teeth www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

Juniper Blood review – Great performances, shame about the play www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

Allow me to recommend tonight’s ‘Discovering’ programme on Sky Arts at 8.00pm when the usual suspects look at the career of the irreplaceable Maggie Smith.