James Waddell

The vast publishing output of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century

“Small Island”—adapted from a novel by Andrea Levy that was published in 2004—unpicks the complex, vicious tangle of power relations between coloniser and colonised, insider and outsider

He was fascinated by psychology and haunted by mental collapse

The risk of staging a play about ennui is the possibility of instilling the same feelings in the audience

A new exhibition shows how two master miniaturists of the 16th century – Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver – captured their era

In a new musical, with songs by Kele Okereke, Brexit causes a relationship to change course

In his festive tale, released 175 years ago, Charles Dickens prescribed not Marxist revolution or Victorian beneficence but free trade and commerce

Eighteen years after Zadie Smith’s debut novel was published, its multicultural optimism is a distant memory

The Natural History Museum in London plays host to “The Wider Earth”, a play about its spiritual father

“It’s True, It’s True, It’s True” is a timely and haunting play fashioned out of 17th-century court transcripts and art history

A scorned production of “Tartuffe”, set in modern Los Angeles, holds important lessons for directors

In the shadow of the #MeToo movement, a new play dramatises the dark corners in a world of bright lights

If the world’s 65.6m forcibly displaced people formed their own country, it would be the 21st-largest — smaller than Thailand, but bigger than France. One of the many things that this imaginary nation lacks, in comparison with others, is a literary canon.

“Goats”, a new play, portrays a government scheme where slaughtered sons are replaced with domesticated beasts

WHAT is the essential feature of an English country garden? An old oak tree, a bed of roses or a well-trimmed lawn? The country estate that provides the backdrop for “Albion”, Mike Bartlett’s new play, has them all

The protagonist of “Against”, apparently in communion with the divine, sets out to solve the world’s violence

From striking abstracts to proto-selfies, what people would do with cameras was apparent from the very earliest days

How an Australian outsider turned a flagging broadsheet into a force of nature is the stuff of high drama

A new film connects electronica, Heine and the romantic German soul in troubled times

Nestled between a bread factory and an industrial launderer is the newly opened branch of Turning Earth, an open-access pottery studio