MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians

MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism

by Andy Jackson

MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news

KAROLINA PAWLIK suggests that the art of Chinese calligraphy can bring creative freedom in the age of AI

DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity

A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin

SUSAN DARLINGTON applauds a new version of the classic novel of racial injustice in the deep South

Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY

MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII

SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties

Reviews of new releases by Wednesday, Suede, and Nation of Language