Your heads-up on this season’s must-see shows and events

Playwright of dazzling wit and complex ideas Sir ...

A stellar Othello in which the narrative takes centre stage puts the spotlight on the theme of the outsider, which threads through many of this month’s productions

27 DECEMBER

THE NEW FILM HAMNET, BASED ON MAGGIE O’FARRELL’S award-winning 2020 novel, imagines how William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in a haze of grief over the death of his son. In a sly bit of casting, director

The Hunger Games: On Stage producer Tristan Baker brings Panem to the theatre