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Autumn arts preview 2021

Guardian critics pick the best in UK arts and entertainment to look forward to this season

  • Cush Jumbo plays Hamlet, Mae Martin and Simon Amstell.

    Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

  • The best art and design of autumn 2021.

    From Hokusai to Himid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2021

  • ‘I didn’t look after myself’ … Sam Fender.

    Sam Fender: ‘Leftie is now a slur in working-class towns’

  • Snapped Ankles, Ghetts and Little Simz.

    From Ghetts to Genesis, Nick Cave to Arlo Parks: autumn 2021’s essential music

  • ‘As anyone who has been to an afternoon showing knows, physical distancing isn’t always a problem’

    After the intermission: films are back in cinemas – but will the crowds return too?

  • Dune, West Side Story and No Time to Die.

    West Side Story, a Sopranos prequel and Bond: the best films to see in autumn 2021

  • Screenwriter Paul Abbott.

    Paul Abbott: ‘I have written two scenes I can’t bear to watch’

    Shameless plundered his bleak childhood for comedy. Now, he’s written a ‘funny forensics’ show, Wolfe, informed by his own bipolar diagnosis. The hit writer talks therapy, all-nighters and why his seven-year-old adores gore
  • Alma’s Not Normal; Sex Education; The Morning Show.

    Sex, Succession and sci-fi nightmares: the must-see TV of autumn 2021

    More teenage hookups in Sex Education, a killer Olivia Colman and the long-awaited return of the Roy family … here is all the unmissable TV coming soon
  • Lake, WarioWare: Get It Together, Far Cry 6.

    From Lake to Metroid Dread: the most exciting video games for autumn 2021

    Escape to 1980s Oregon, get stuck in an art deco assassin game or liberate a Caribbean island with the help of a dog in this feast of new titles
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