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2021 culture preview

We preview some of the cultural highlights of 2021

  • Culture 2021: Our games picks

    Refreshingly modern dinosaurs and a cyberpunk cat: our games picks for 2021

    An ultra-stylish trip to Gotham, a new Hogwarts adventure and a long-awaited sequel to Psychonauts lead our preview of this year’s most anticipated releases
  • Our 2021 theatre, dance and comedy picks. From left; Michael Spicer, Ghosts and The Unfriend.

    Jerusalem, Beckett and Bridget Christie: theatre, comedy and dance to book in 2021

    Modern masterpiece Jerusalem storms back and Trevor Nunn goes underground with Beckett, while Bob Marley gets a musical and Frankenstein becomes a ballet
  • Intimidating … James Cosmo in The Bay.

    James Cosmo: 'My friend said: They're going to drink beer out of your skull'

    After his brutal demise on Game of Thrones, the veteran Scottish actor is back in crime drama The Bay. Is he the baddie?
  • Culture 2021, Art. From left; Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam by MVRDV, Eileen Agar self portrait, A Lion by Albrecht Dürer, Allegory of Fable by Gustave Moreau

    Brutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021's best art, architecture and photography

    Rodin, Bacon and Eileen Agar will be big, but Abramovic’s art attack could eclipse them all. Plus Frank Gehry unleashes a tornado and Helen Levitt shows how street photography should be done
  • Dance off … a scene from Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, coming in 2021

    'You should get one with your Covid jab': can musicals save cinema?

  • Four Lives; The Pursuit of Love; Line of Duty.

    Superhero sitcoms, hardcore sci-fi and Belfast noir: the must-see TV of 2021

  • From left: West Side Story, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick.

    Dune, Bond and Top Gun reloaded: films to look out for in 2021

    Daniel Craig hands in his licence to kill, Frances McDormand delivers her best ever performance, Carey Mulligan unsettles in a rape-revenge drama and Tom Cruise reaches for the skies … this year’s must-see films
  • Culture2021 Music

    Wonder breaks the silence: pop, rock and classical music for 2021

    Cardi B pushes into Beyoncé’s turf and Sleaford Mods tot up the cost of Covid, while UK orchestras head back to the concert hall – our critics look ahead to big music moments
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