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Billy Bob Thornton stars in Taylor Sheridan's Texas oil drama
film
Flashing lights, beeps and buzzes are diverting, but quickly pall
Superb adaptation of Robert Harris's novel
new music
A bumper bundle of the man dubbed a ‘master of many styles’
classical
Energy and excitement in MacMillan … and then a surprise
Celebrating the avant-garde through different cultures
A neglected ballet score, romantic piano concertos and contemporary British music
opera
Sheer perfection in Soraya Mafi’s Gilda and an Irish mezzo’s Berlioz
Flat first act, livelier second, singers not always helped by conductor and director
theatre
Oscar Wilde speaks just as strongly to the 21st century as he did to his own
Shakespeare's comedy of identity confusion benefits from a 1940s setting
Myths and monsters make for a curiously bland and bloodless musical
dance
Michael Keegan-Dolan’s mind-boggling total work of art arrives at Sadlers Wells this week
The dancer-choreographer goes epic in a show that unites South Asian dance styles
comedy
Texan's full-length debut is a personal story
Comic plays male and female roles simultaneously
Books
Fragments cohere in this dog-eared history of an itinerant life
Beautiful books take you to worlds that are intricately imagined and a feast for the eye
visual arts
Flashing lights, beeps and buzzes are diverting, but quickly pall
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