The year 1966 saw a new bright star light up the London stage. The play was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the playwright was Tom Stoppard who, at 29, was the youngest person ever to have a

Puppets and disrupters abound in this season’s family shows

Stephen Sondheim’s resonant, melancholy musicals

Inspector Lynley is back! But not as you know him, say the stars of the BBC remake, Leo Suter and Sofia Barclay

My only commandment is ‘Thou shalt not bore’

An authoritative, questioning, ‘final’ not-quite-novel