Our critic looks back at the best, worst, most underrated and most irritating performances of 2025 and recommends the plays to see this Christmas

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It has been 24 years since Kiefer Sutherland first barked orders into a flip phone in 24, the headlong war-on-terror TV drama that elevated raspy CTU agent Jack Bauer into the all-time action-hero pan

SHE’S the heart and soul of every traditional pantomime and one of the best-loved characters of all. Often, she’s the mother of the village idiot, the ship’s chief cook and bottle-washer or the propri

It’s a funny old world

Theatre: All My Sons Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 ...