The choreographer, writer, dancer and musician’s multifaceted, repetitive approach to art-making is nowhere more evident than in his new show, which kicks off this week in Frome

Imitating the Dog follow their innovative Dracula and Night of the Living Dead with a version of Shelley’s classic that bolts on a contemporary story about impending parenthood

The Smiths’ songs are transplanted on to the gothic horror of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and it works

Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever

Communes are on the rise, but we’ve been here before – 200 years ago Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his poet friends were pinning their hopes on the collective good

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is demanding the return of the 1930s movie prop – but its London rival is not giving up without a fight

From Noname’s new single to Bruegel’s vision of a lost world, our critics offer up culture for processing the impending crisis

Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson; The Cabinet by Un-su Kim; Femlandia by Christina Dalcher; When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow; The Workshop of Filthy Creation by Richard Gadz

Adding finish to young aristocrats’ education in centuries past, and recorded by Goethe, Sterne and others, these alluring journeys had a very dark side

This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions about the cost of utopian aspirations

As Danny Boyle’s production is streamed online, its set designer Mark Tildesley recalls putting thousands of bulbs and an ancient bell to shocking effect