2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe
Arifa Akbar
A string of seven awards for Sunset Boulevard was hardly radical, and many more daring theatrical successes went unrewarded
Scoop review – Rufus Sewell and Billie Piper shine in Prince Andrew drama
The Crown director Philip Martin’s dynamic recreation of the notorious Newsnight interview has two jewels among its acting
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
From Oppenheimer to Scoop: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Scoop review – self-admiring replay of Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview
The Trouble With Jessica review – Shirley Henderson leads satire on London liberals
February 2023
Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson to star in film about Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview
Billie Piper and Keeley Hawes will also star in Netflix drama Scoop, which will fictionalise the royal’s infamous BBC interview with Emily Maitlis
February 2020
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Pale Horse; Endeavour; The End; The Split – review
Sarah Phelps retro-fettles with aplomb in her latest Agatha Christie adaptation, while Endeavour hits a tricky 1970
March 2019
Warehouse wonders: Josie Rourke at the Donmar – in pictures
As the artistic director prepares to leave the Donmar Warehouse, we look back over her reign – from City of Angels to the Shakespeare Trilogy
January 2017
Canvassing opinion: what art critics make of the hit play Art
Art review – 90s ‘comedy’ becomes an old master
December 2016
Art review – Rufus Sewell shines in finely shaded character study
TV & radio catch up guide
Catch-up and download: From The Man In The High Castle to Mozart In The Jungle
August 2016
TV review
Victoria review – Jenna Coleman goes back in time to become a future queen
Coleman swaps Tardis travel for court machinations as the young Victoria. Plus, a little Are You Being Served? and Porridge go a long way
March 2015
Closer review – Marber’s 90s passion play still stirs
Patrick Marber’s finely wrought 1997 play about the brutal business of falling in and out of love holds good in David Leveaux’s smooth if safe revival
February 2015
A Closer look: Patrick Marber's classic play about love and lust – in pictures
Closer review – Patrick Marber's play is as powerful and pertinent as ever
July 2014
Hercules review – cheerfully ridiculous
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson plays the classical hero in glistening semi-nudity, leading a squad of mercenaries to defend the king of Thrace, writes Peter Bradshaw
April 2014
The Sea review – glum psychodrama adapted from Booker winner
John Banville reduces his Booker prizewinner to jumbled pound-shop Proustisms in this choppy adaptation, writes Mike McCahill
April 2013
All Things to All Men – review
Kidulthood producer George Issac makes his writer-director debut with this stylish crime thriller, writes Peter Bradshaw
March 2013
Rufus Sewell: almost famous
Rufus Sewell was a pin-up in the 1990s, then his career stalled. He tells Liese Spencer about moving to LA, giving up drinking and why he can't wait to lose his looks
