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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
The exiled filmmaker on authoritarian minds, reluctant radicalism and Iran's future

Directorial debut features strong performances and too much violence
new music

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Texan pop-punk legends filled the sold-out Civic Hall with pure joy
classical
Poetic Maconchy and Walton, surging Vaughan Williams bursting its confines

Engagingly humble and empathetic work from three talented musicians

Performers of extraordinary versatility fulfil their brief
opera

No slack in Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic treatment of the visceral first Dogme film

Opera and dance companies share a theme in this terse but affecting double bill
theatre

The Almeida’s all-women hit transfers to the West End

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

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

Opera and dance companies share a theme in this terse but affecting double bill

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

The ventriloquist-comedian's improvised hour-long outing is skilful and fabulously entertaining

Best show winner at the Edinburgh Fringe
Books

Myths, mines, and mankind combine in this wide-eyed reading of the earth beneath our feet

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

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