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From Matt Smith staging an audience debate to the return of ‘Hadestown’, it’s a big month on stage in the capital

If you need cheering up as we reach the home stretch of this interminable month, here are the films, theatre shows and art on our radar

How are theatre practitioners (re)defining the realist project, a form of theatre intrinsic to the ideological domestication of capitalism? This paper takes up this question through an examination of Simon Stone's production of The Wild Duck 'after Ibsen', staged at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney in 2011, and the late Mark Fisher's (2009) theorization of a market-dominated present as capitalist realism. In doing so, it refers to three different cultural contexts by making parallel...

Ahead of the revival of her improvisational piece 'In C', Berlin’s godmother of independent dance, Sasha Waltz, reflects on 30 years of her company.

From Withnail and I on stage to Olivia Rodrigo on tour, Sally Wainwright’s new drama to Blondie, Bruckner and Jez Butterworth, our experts guide you through the treats in store this year

PATRICK MARMION: Comedies and tragedies, adaptations and original works - as well as some of the finest stage actors in the world, jockeying for our attention - yes, it looks like being a bumper year.

See which classics are being given a new lease of life this year

In today’s newsletter: Recession warnings, more time on TikTok, even faster fashion. But never mind – film and TV are going to have a blockbuster year

Will KJ-T strike Olympic gold? Will Sunak go for an early election? How much will Taylor Swift fans bring to the UK economy? From tech to fashion, food to politics, the Observer’s top writers predict who and what will make the headlines

Sarah Crompton picks her top shows to see next year as we kickstart a week of previews for the coming 12 months