Claire Allfree

Back for a ninth year, Julian Clary 's annual festive Palladium extravaganza has fully perfected the art of ostentatiously embracing the trappings of panto while, at its heart, despising the form.

You can wait years for a comet to appear and streak across the sky, and you can wait years, too, for a hit Broadway musical to arrive on these shores

Rebecca Frecknall is doing a fine job of working through the cast of Normal People with each successive Tennessee Williams: Paul Mescal will reprise

Ahead of a new radio play, we recall the life of Kay Swift, who has remained in the shadow of her celebrated paramour – perhaps unfairly so

As his sell-out tour about his life returns to the stage next year, the songwriter discusses cancel culture, showbiz and Andrew Lloyd Webber

Christmas Day sees the stop motion duo star in their first film for 16 years – with a new nemesis: AI

Early in the new film Vengeance Most Fowl , Wallace proudly introduces Gromit to his latest invention – Norbot, an AI-powered smart gnome designed to take the strain out of gardening.

The Split star on his mother Maggie Smith’s lack of self-confidence – and the ‘weird world’ she left behind

The legendary radio presenter on leaving the BBC, his favourite Christmas film and the 1960s songs that haven’t aged well

“Welcome to my home,” says Simon Mayo, stretched out on a chair at the head of a long table in a sterile meeting room at Bauer Media HQ, just off Euston Road.