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Serial killer meets his nemesis - a horror movie star - in Peter Bogdanovich’s first feature
tv

Terrific drama series has been whipped up from Stephen Graham's hit film

Origin story of the hitman's hotel makes a sluggish start

Gilded couple explore the barren lands of their blighted marriage
film

Serial killer meets his nemesis - a horror movie star - in Peter Bogdanovich’s first feature

John David Washington goes on the run with a child AI

Syrian refugees polarise Durham villagers in Ken Loach's affecting drama
new music

Delightful but previously unknown early Seventies British art-school album

Breathtaking set from Britain's Top Girl
classical

Rewarding Bach and Mozart and ingenuity in abundance

Things both rich and rare in the season opener

Small-scale performance offers both grandeur and delicacy
opera

Fabulous principals and some good ideas to elevate Gounod's old-fashioned melodrama

Verdi’s comic masterpiece with a retro feel of its own

Launching Opera North’s Green Season with a climate sceptic as villain
theatre

Ben Elton has written an odd musical-documentary, part comic-strip, part lecture

Pantomime vibe undermines the unique frisson of the magician's art

Ian McKellen and Roger Allam as the lonely men who bond over their dogs
dance

Carlos Acosta creates shining gold from heavy metal and ballet

The younger sibling of the Alvin Ailey family visits for the first time in 12 years

From stately to sexy, these fabulously physical dancers engage every emotion
comedy

Nostalgia-fest delivers an emotional punch

US comic brings her off-Broadway hit to the UK
Books

The writer discusses her prize-winning debut novel, the power of fragments, and the motivations that drive her work

The artist’s life winds along the streets of Paris in a sprawling study of influence and resistance

Tanya Leslie gracefully translates the Nobel Prize winner’s treatise on the traumas that make us
visual arts

Too many bunnies spoil the sculpture broth

This pioneer of performance art is the first woman to show in the main galleries

A retrospective of the Brazilian artist's career transports us to Rio de Janeiro
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