The Long Christmas Dinner: A ghostly telling of a dreamlike curiosity

Thornton Wilder’s expressionist one-act play tracks a family home over 90 years

Eighteen Irish panto productions for all the family to watch this season

Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format

What can I see in October skies? Mars drawing close and a blue moon

Our closest planetary neighbour will be just 62 million kilometres away

Lovecraft Country: American TV shows its true colours. And it’s exhilarating

Racist sheriffs, not tentacled beasts, provide the real scares in this take on Jim Crow’s US

Lou Reed the rock poet: When should songs be considered poetry?

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

Who can recall the fallen greats of the dog-eat-dog tech world?

The history of digital technology is littered with the corpses of companies that didn’t make the cut

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Kill Your Darlings

Magical mystery tour: ‘The public weren’t aware the Beatles had changed’

Paul Howard chats to ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ collaborator Gerry Harrison about Tara Browne (the reputed subject of ‘A Day in the Life’), 1967 and LSD