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The prude of love

  • 29 October 2009

The erstwhile Victor Meldrew is on fine form

The Power of Yes

  • 15 October 2009

David Hare is brilliant on last year's financial crash

I Bought a Blue Car Today (Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2)

  • 10 September 2009

Mr Cumming's solo show feels more than a little me, me, me . . .

Helen

  • 20 August 2009

Three parts comedy, one part tragedy

The Black Album

  • 06 August 2009

Kureishi’s novel about young British Asian men makes a problematic play

The Fairy Queen

  • 30 July 2009

Purcell’s adaptation of Shakespeare is a triumph of style over substance

Jerusalem

  • 23 July 2009

This unmissable state-of-the-nation piece is a fantasy tale with echoes of Blake

Forbidden Broadway

  • 09 July 2009

This complacent send-up of musicals reveals just how dire most of them are

Phèdre

  • 25 June 2009

Racine’s ferocious drama of the human heart in extremis is a gruelling spectacle

Cycle of violence

  • 07 May 2009

Tricycle Theatre's series of plays about the history of foreign intervention in Afghanistan conveys a mixed message

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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