Visit from an Unknown Woman review – gripping study of obsession and fantasy
Christopher Hampton’s sleek adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s 1922 novella adds elements of the Austrian writer’s own life
June 2024
Rock on, Shostakovich, Handel, Ravel: lives of great composers hit the screens
Torment, rebellion and tragedy are major themes as a rash of new biopics highlight the achievements and challenges of the musically gifted
September 2023
Rebecca review – Mrs Danvers steals the show in Du Maurier musical
The week in theatre: Never Have I Ever; God of Carnage – review
September 2022
The Son review – laceratingly painful drama of familial fear and loathing
Florian Zeller’s follow-up to The Father features a tremendous performance from Hugh Jackman, as a divorced lawyer who agrees to look after his troubled offspring
June 2022
How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood
The new film Mr Wilder & Me reveals how a search for funding led the director on an uneasy journey back to the central Europe he fled
February 2022
The week in theatre: Two Billion Beats; Running With Lions; The Forest; The Chairs – review
A Hindu schoolgirl challenges all around her; Toby Stephens and Gina McKee star in Florian Zeller’s sketchy new play; and Kathryn Hunter excels in a frisky reworking of Ionescu
September 2021
‘Anthony Hopkins committed within five minutes’: how I wrote The Father with Florian Zeller
After Christopher Hampton saw Zeller’s dementia drama on stage in Paris, neither language, finance nor another film adaptation could thwart their collaboration on the screenplay
March 2021
'I almost believed her': Christopher Hampton on Goebbels' secretary and A German Life
Baftas 2021: the full list of nominations
February 2021
Golden Globes 2021: full list of nominations
All the nominees for the first big event of this pandemic-affected awards season, in film and TV categories
January 2021
Lockdown culture
Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood musical is milder than Wilder
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of the 1950 film is smartly staged by Leicester’s Curve, starring Ria Jones and Danny Mac
September 2019
Youth Without God review – anti-Nazi drama calls out liberal bystanders
'Like a bullet from a gun': Laurie Kynaston on playing a tormented teen
February 2019
The Son review – Florian Zeller's frightening tale of teen depression
Maggie Smith returns to theatre to play Goebbels’ secretary Brunhilde Pomsel
October 2018
The Height of the Storm review – Pryce and Atkins are magnetic
Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins excel in Florian Zeller’s beautifully elusive play, translated by Christopher Hampton
June 2018
'Trump is a Tartuffe': why Molière's banned blockbuster got an update
Star Audrey Fleurot and playwright Christopher Hampton talk about his reboot of the hard-hitting moral comedy set in post-Weinstein America
March 2018
Spiral's Audrey Fleurot and Peaky Blinders' Paul Anderson to star in West End
Actors to share the stage in Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Tartuffe at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket
April 2017
The Mentor; The Philanthropist review – lethal wit
Playwright Christopher Hampton’s talents are illuminated in two clever satires skewering the literary and academic life
