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The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

Alan the assassin, Clare as Boris Johnson and of course, Celia’s fart … the dynamite scenes have come thick and fast in the inaugural series. Here are the very best bits

3/5 David Harewood, Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald are an accomplished team but this West End Shakespeare is oddly flat

3/5 David Harewood reprises the titular role in a starry production that grants more power to the play’s women, but ultimately dulls its edge

I'd have been impressed too.

Theatre director and founder of Talawa, the company that champions writers and actors of African and Caribbean heritage

From Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet to Frieda McFadden’s The Housemaid, don’t miss these movies at the cinema

The actor best known as TV’s Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett

INTERVIEW: Almost three decades after Harewood made history as the National Theatre’s first Black Othello, he is stepping back into the role. Annabel Nugent meets him and his co-stars over steak and salad to talk drama therapists, stinky smooches, and Blackface in theatre

The experimental annexe of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

It was a classic year at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which took place earlier this month. If there was any observable shift, it was the number of filmmakers who turned to smaller-scale dramas of human connection, with action, fantasy and, to some degree, politics less prominent than usual.