Alexander Larman on Theatre ● TO KICK OFF ...

Religion, immigration, gender politics and severed heads

A play about parents meeting the man who killed their son is deeply affecting and an Irish import deserves to be described as a modern classic, but the new direction of the National Theatre gets off to a shaky start

Robert Thicknesse on Opera ● ON THE FACE ...

“Between you and me …”

Best books… Richard Holmes The biographer chooses five ...