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Exploring Gordon Parks' Impactful Photography of Postwar Alabama

Gordon Parks captured the essence of black family life in postwar Alabama, highlighting the dignity and resilience of individuals facing the challenges of Jim Crow laws.

The Testaments: A Dark Continuation of The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood’s sequel offers a seemingly lighter tone but reveals the grim realities of Gilead through the eyes of June’s grown daughter, with Aunt Lydia returning.

The Boys Concludes with a Final Season That Reflects Modern America

The Boys returns for its fifth and final season, delivering a climactic showdown that resonates with contemporary societal issues. This series has garnered acclaim for its sharp satire of the superhero genre.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball

Executive context: After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new.

Editorial Staff Apr 7 · 11 days ago

Pet Shop Boys review – no hits? No problem on first night of a masterful obscurities run

Executive context: Electric Ballroom, London The era-defining duo’s ultras are suitably spoiled in the first of this intimate five-day run, showered with rarities that put a different spin on their well-known history.

Editorial Staff Apr 7 · 11 days ago

‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot

Executive context: He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid with Hunter S Thompson J

UK minister says Kanye West should not perform at Wireless festival

Bridget Phillipson adds to growing criticism of booking of rapper after his past antisemitic remarks A senior UK government minister has said Kanye West should be barred from performing at Wireless festival because of hi

The Drama: sex, secrets and that gobsmacking twist – discuss with spoilers

Executive context: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s dark dramedy is a stylish acting showcase, but does it do justice to its weighty themes?

‘I over-articulated to stop my braces sticking to my lips’: how Five Star made Rain Or Shine

Executive context: ‘We performed it everywhere, even on Miss World. Once, on tour, a fan pulled me into the pit – but my hunky Italian security guard put me back on stage’ I had come to England from St Louis, Missouri, in the 1970s to do a

Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity

Executive context: Hammersmith Apollo, London The sitcom star and Taskmaster stalwart is on commanding form as she embarks on Older Than Jesus, her first – and deeply daft – standup tour That staple realisation of early midlife, that one h