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You can get by without this revival of The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard’s play now seems irredeemably dated
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Plinths of darkness
Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history
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A problem like Maria
Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival
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Closing Time gives you hope for theatre’s future
The third Death of England play is funny and dazzling.. even watching its audience is a joy
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A plan that had plenty of hitches
Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is an uncompromisingly honest memoir of a lost teenage soul, of adventure, rebellion and the echoes of memory
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Selling Vincent
How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend
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A spoof that succeeds without a Hitch
There’s plenty of life in the latest 39 Steps revival
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The art of survival
Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on
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Borders and bigotry in Europe’s far north
Hanna Pylväinen’s new novel is a haunting tale of love and conflict set in the Sápmi lands of northern Europe in the 19th century
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The stolen art of Lucia Moholy
It’s time for a long exposure for the avant-garde Bauhaus photographer
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A show to make spirits soar in our summer of strife
Fiddler On The Roof is theatre at its best
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The Grapes Of Wrath is a terrible three-hour endurance test
A dull and thankless endeavour makes you feel sorry for audience and actors
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France stages a lost opera
If opera needs a way to entrance new, younger audiences, this production of Samson needs to get on the road
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Portraits of rage.. and how we heal
The Death Of England is cutting-edge theatre that doesn’t care who it offends
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Deadpool and Wolverine restore fun to the MCU
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, streaming and books
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The ego has landed
The man behind the masks and mysteries – James Ensor, the angry, vindictive, solitary genius of Ostend
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An eyemask, a leaf, a lecture… is this really theatre?
A spirited revival of Mnemonic can’t hide its flaws
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A greater showman than Trump
If you want a night of exuberant entertainment, vote for Barnum
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Kiss Me Kate is flawed but irresistible
Line Of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar delights in a clever and seditious classic
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Breast in show
Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast
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My Family is David Baddiel's finest writing to date
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and streaming
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Pieces of Brecht
The playwright’s archives reveal him as a compulsive newspaper clipper and
a master of montage
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Ismail Kadare, the voice of Albania
Writing during the turbulent regime of Enver Hoxha led the writer into compromise – as well as greatness
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Slave Play is an absolute must-see
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and streaming
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A show that knows optimism is back in the air
The Voice of the Turtle is stylish, compelling and romantic
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Fifty years of The Night Porter
Liliana Cavani's pitch-black tale of a Nazi and a camp survivor bound together enraged almost everybody on its original release. Half a century on, has the tide turned?
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Kinds of Kindness is a deeply strange and wonderful movie
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, television and books
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The Constituent is a waste of James Corden
A flat script does Anna Maxwell Martin no favours either
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The perfect show for a warm summer night
The Secret Garden is assured and stylish
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Rebecca Horn, angel of alchemy
A retrospective opens in Munich of the drawings, films and kinetic sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn
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Sergio Strizzi: the perfect moment
A new exhibition of the Italian photographer’s work captures the glamour of postwar Italian film
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The Bikeriders is an instant classic of the genre
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, theatre and books