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Awesome new albums, great gigs, spectacular stage performances, a host of fantastic films and cracking comedy shows - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of music, theatre and film.

A host of fantastic films, great gigs, awesome new albums and spectacular stage performances - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of film, music and theatre.

The Divine Mrs S is a backstage satire set in the year 1800, when flouncy costumes and elaborate English prose were common cultural ornaments. On press night the venue was full of resting actors and theatrical hangers-on who adored the show’s in-jokes and rehearsal-room wisecracks. Titus Andronicus is ‘an experimental play about a pie’, says

Sisterly bonds are tethered by fiery ambition in this exploration into the lives of the Brontë sisters.

The Northern Stage co-production runs at the Dorfman until 25 May

A dislikable version of Charlotte, jockeying for prominence and yearning to be as immortal as Byron, is the surprising focus of this quick-witted drama

The play is entertaining, informative and, going by some of the conversations I heard as I was leaving, definitely starts a discussion that can go on long into the night.

A Netflix docuseries portrays Alexander the Great as having had same-sex relations, which experts say is possible based on historical evidence—but they say he can’t be classified as gay by modern standards.

Hollywood directors embracing the great wokening by redoing three movie classics – including "The Wizard of Oz" – and deliberately making them worse.

The musical of Mean Girls hits cinemas in the UK on Wednesday but fans of the 2004 Hollywood film have questioned why a remake is being released at all.