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Ancient classics can reinforce patriarchal lies about women, but they also take us back to the origins of pernicious narratives, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield finds a home from home

In this week’s Evening Standard Theatre Podcast, we talk to the cast of The Lehman Trilogy about the award-winning play which arrived in the West End this month, and the challenges of staging a story that spans 160 years and multiple characters. We also review the musical Standing at the…

Janet McTeer plays a politician who falls for her dead lover’s son, but even her strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play

A high-spec, richly-textured chamber extravaganza

The ‘Albert Nobbs’ and ‘Ozark’ star is about to play Phaedra in a new National Theatre production. She talks to Jessie Thompson about ‘one of the most vilified anti-heroines ever’, embracing her height, and Oscar nominations

The innovative Australian director who successfully cast Billie Piper in Yerma is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer

In a world of Elon Musk, Harvey Weinstein and Trump, are these really the folks targeted for takedown?

Think ‘Get Out’ or ‘The Hunt’, but about culinary snobbery

Toronto film festival: Ralph Fiennes is a sinister chef with a deviously designed menu in a fun, if throwaway, stew of class satire and torture porn

Everything you need to know about Kaos, the new Netflix series from The End of the F***ing World writer Charlie Covell.