Emma John

Society tries to quash the quirks of a spirited eccentric in Peter Quilter’s new play that fails to go beyond its lead character’s unworldliness

Get this issue Go Premium There are times when it's possible to keep sport in a sensible perspective, and then there are weeks it challenges your very sanity.

The sport’s misguided morals mean England’s Test captain has been humbled for a meaningless infraction and kept off the stage for which he was made

Read this exciting story from The Guardian June 12, 2026 issue. There are times when it’s possible to keep sport in a sensible perspective, and then there are weeks it challenges your very sanity. This has felt like one of those.

Frank swings into the West End with a swaggering turn from Joel Harper-Jackson and plenty of style yet the script is flat

Get this issue Go Premium Ol' Blue Eyes is back: first staged in Birmingham three years ago and workshopped since, this Frank Sinatra musical has now hit the West End with big band energy.

Climate crisis is on show every day when sportspeople do their thing and the rest of us sweat on the sofa

With content-stacking and spoiler-avoiding, a fan with the right subscriptions can expect to enjoy 13 uninterrupted hours on the sofa on Saturday

The Hundred has always been an experiment in manufactured identity – you can’t hurry history, but perhaps you can fake it

The Lucknow Super Giants kit says a lot about their team. Specifically, it draws from the “cultural fabric” of the city and the surrounding state