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Peter Brook's mission was to rid the world of comfortable, middle-class theatre

The great director, who has died at 97, sent shock waves through the establishment, says our chief theatre critic

Comment and analysis

Steve Wright was my generation's naff DJ – afternoons won't be the same without him

After dominating midweek afternoons for a quarter of a century, the Radio 2 veteran is stepping away from the mic
Dominic Raab's opera snobbery is proof of Britain's problem with 'highbrow' art

In mocking Angela Rayner's Glyndebourne visit, the Deputy PM showed his ignorance of British cultural history – and the beauty of opera
The RSC must make Shakespeare great again

The company's successor to Gregory Doran has a tough job – to save Shakespeare from identity politics and fads

Alcina, Glyndebourne Festival, review: the hit of the summer opera season so far

A magnificent production transplants Handel's 1735 work to a cabaret venue in Sixties Milan
A System so Magnificent it is Blinding by Amanda Svensson review: 2022's maddest novel? 3*

Globe-trotting triplets collide with neuroscientists, cultists, a 'very moral monkey' and Dakota Fanning in this wild 529-page trip
The Railway Children Return, review: why give a British classic an American racism theme?

It's the Second World War, and Jenny Agutter and co are back in Yorkshire – but events have taken a new and suspiciously Yankee turn
Can you be a mother and a great artist?

New book The Baby on the Fire Escape looks at the extreme ways some female artists have overcome the restraints of parenthood

Rock's untold stories, from band-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all time

What's on TV tonight: Top Gear, Dunkirk and more

Your complete guide to the week's television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

A regular series telling the stories behind film and TV's greatest hits – and most fascinating flops

A System so Magnificent it is Blinding by Amanda Svensson review: 2022's maddest novel? 3*

Globe-trotting triplets collide with neuroscientists, cultists, a 'very moral monkey' and Dakota Fanning in this wild 529-page trip
Can you be a mother and a great artist?

New book The Baby on the Fire Escape looks at the extreme ways some female artists have overcome the restraints of parenthood
Take it from a Russian – the alternative to Western democracy is far, far worse

In his excellent new book, comedian and podcast host Konstantin Kisin asks why people in the West so often spit on their luck
The alternative story of 20th-century classical music, from burning pianos to a 99-year-old nun

Kate Molleson's Sound within Sound, a study of 10 'outsider' artists, proves how hard it is to turn 20th-century composers into a neat story

Rothko's guru: how Milton Avery transformed modern art

Can a new RA exhibition prove that the neglected American is the missing link between impressionism and the abstract expressionists?
Summer 2022's to do list: 100 films, books and shows to see

Don't sit there, do something! Our critics pick the must-see shows, films, exhibitions, gigs and more to book now
The Portrait of Omai is part of Britain's colonial past – but we shouldn't let it go

The 1776 masterpiece by Joshua Reynolds may leave the UK soon, a grim sign that its artistic value should be better appreciated