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tv

Fifty years later, the wounds still haven't healed

Dan Fogelman's new series has an excellent cast but a recycled premise

James Graham's dramatisation of Brian Walden's fateful 1989 interview
film

Directorial debut features strong performances and too much violence

The ground-breaking, if flawed media coverage of the 1972 Munich massacre

Kurosawa's post-war Tokyo noir gleans societal guilt as a cop hunts his purloined pistol
new music

Vital components of British punk rock and what followed

South-coast five-piece continue their fitful journey into rock experimentalism
classical

Performers of extraordinary versatility fulfil their brief

Two great conductors celebrated, plus medieval choral music and an eclectic vocal recital

A great conductor continues his scorching survey of British symphonies with a hard-hitter
opera

Compelling revival, punches, placards and all

Laugh-out-loud funny revival of an ingenious staging
theatre

Brie Larson makes a brave West End debut that, alas, misfires

Kandinsky Theatre co-creator on a new play tethering technology to existence

Is it a dance piece with added text, or a stripped down play with excess choreography?
dance

John Cranko was the greatest choreographer British ballet never had. His masterpiece is now 60 years old

The Leeds-based company act as impressively as they dance
comedy

Best show winner at the Edinburgh Fringe

Special recording available to download
Books

The trials and triumphs of a city’s margins are observed by an outside eye

Family trauma repeats in this deftly strange exploration of roads not taken
visual arts

Flashing lights, beeps and buzzes are diverting, but quickly pall
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