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Music Review: The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera

Music Review: The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera

Fiona Shaw's delightful direction of Mozart's great opera.

Music Review: Castor and Pollux, English National Opera

Music Review: Castor and Pollux, English National Opera

A rare and welcome French baroque production by an English opera company.

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The Passenger (London Coliseum)

This opera isn’t the triumph that some have hailed it as.

Holy Flying Circus (BBC 4)

A smug and cloying homage to Monty Python.

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"Twitter, at its worst, is a megaphone for lunatics"

Rob Brydon on Steve Coogan, Hackgate and the perils of celebrity.

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Comedy update

Comedy update

Private Eye at the V&A, the Onion's UK arrival and Atkinson hints at Blackadder 5.

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Latin summer

Four recommendations from an array of Latin American dance, music and culture on its way to the UK.

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Pleasures of the flesh

How a nerve-shredding new dance production from Dave St-Pierre has divided the critics.

The word made flesh

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui turns his dancers' attention to religion at the Brighton Festival.

Adapt or die

Adapt or die

In the battle of the Birdsongs, telly nicks it - just.

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Travelling Light (Lyttelton Theatre)

Andrew Billen fails to be charmed by a film fantasy with no roots in reality.

Still crazy after all these years

Still crazy after all these years

Simon Stephens's new play transports Alfred Jarry to the International Criminal Tribunal.

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Our film awards

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