Stephen King’s high-school scare-’em-up is reinvented for 2026, and the pop superstar brings the love in her feelgood live extravaganza. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
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Extremists are on the rise globally – but UK activists have seen them off in the past in everything from football, politics, music and more. How did they do it? Tariq Mehmood encountered the far right early – at primary school.
UK News & CommentThe GuardianRoyal Exchange theatre, Manchester Matthew Dunster’s disruptive reinvention of the tragedy merges two roles for its star and at times enters Game of Thrones territory The TV series Succession was partly modelled on King Lear, the family name Roy derived from the monarchic French…
UK News & CommentThe GuardianJeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, and the Last One Laughing star reckons with divorce in her new standup tour The Social Reckoning Out now The David Fincher-directed The Social Network has only come to seem more canny over time…
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