Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth’s masterpiece, takes on new meaning in 2022
This stirring, slick play on Englishness returns 13 years later, with the same lead actors, Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook. In a new context, its message…
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a soulless stage adaptation of the 2001 film
This attempt to re-energise a 20-year-old movie just feels tired.
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James Graham’s new play Best of Enemies reveals the origins of our culture war
This drama set in the late 1960s explores the televised debates between William F Buckley and Gore Vidal, and asks:…
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Zadie Smith’s stage debut is a filthy, feminist reworking of Chaucer
In The Wife of Willesden, the acclaimed novelist of voices has at last let her characters speak aloud.
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How the memory of the Paris attacks is shaping France’s national psyche
The ongoing terror trial is adding a new dimension to the nation’s collective memory of the attacks of 13…
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Reviewed in short: New books by Simon Heffer, Lucy Burns, Warren Ellis and Helen Oyeyemi
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Reviewed in short: New books by Anil Seth, Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä, Gavin Barwell and Stanley Tucci
Being You by Seth, Notes from an Island by Jansson and Pietilä, Chief of Staff by Barwell and Taste…
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Reviewed in short: New books by Ben Mezrich, Eve Livingston, Billie Jean King and Maggie Nelson
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