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Demetrios Matheou
Monday, 20 May 2019
WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS! And so it’s over. Eight years of thrilling, fantastical, often emotionally devastating, in some senses ground-breaking television, has reached the...
Katherine Waters
Monday, 20 May 2019
There's children screaming in a nearby playground. Their voices rise and fall, swell and drop. Interspersed silences fill with the sound of running, the movement and cacophony...
Russ Coffey
Monday, 20 May 2019
Musical odd couples don't come much stranger than Sting and Shaggy. Last night, at the Roundhouse, that didn't stop the rock star playing yin to the reggae man's yang. ...
Peter Quantrill
Monday, 20 May 2019
Mid-career, moving ever further away from composing for concert platform and church towards the stage, Berlioz found himself unsure where his take on Faust belonged. In the end he...
Adam Sweeting
Monday, 20 May 2019
In 2010, Maxine Peake starred in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, but this new dramatisation of Lister’s life has been gestating in Sally Wainwright’s brain for 20 years,...
Joseph Walsh
Monday, 20 May 2019
This year, Cannes has been adamantly defending traditional cinema, with more than a few jibes at Netflix (who remain persona non grata at the festival), but that hasn’t stopped...
Nick Hasted
Monday, 20 May 2019
Much of Rokia Traoré’s set on Saturday night comprised folk songs about Mali’s warrior kings, connecting with her country’s...
Saskia Baron
Monday, 20 May 2019
This is a toothsome treat for Sunday nights and one of those rare occasions when the BBC has got hold of the kind of nifty...
Saskia Baron
Monday, 20 May 2019
This is a real passion project; British filmmaker Andy Dunn spent years building up a relationship with the late American...
Veronica Lee
Monday, 20 May 2019
Al Murray's Pub Landlord character has been around since the mid-1990s. As such, it's a wonder that Murray has managed to...
Nick Hasted
Monday, 20 May 2019
Martial arts mayhem, Shaolin philosophy, a tribe of masked hip hop warriors emerging from the mist of Staten Island, a...
Russ Coffey
Monday, 20 May 2019
Some say that every successful rock star's career can be divided into three phases. First comes the youthful exuberance....
Katie Colombus
Sunday, 19 May 2019
Once the self proclaimed poster girl for mental illness, Ruby Wax has evolved her stand up act, because, as she puts it, “...
Ellen McDougall
Sunday, 19 May 2019
I’ve wanted to direct Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for a long time.The play is beautifully written and its form feels not...
Joseph Walsh
Sunday, 19 May 2019
There’s a touch of Fellini’s 8 ½ in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film. It’s a forlorn, confessional tale, with Antonio Banderas...
Boyd Tonkin
Sunday, 19 May 2019
This March, a real-estate office in Miami Beach, Florida, put a parcel of prime seafront land on the market. A vacant estate...
Kieron Tyler
Sunday, 19 May 2019
It was inevitable that Rod Stewart’s distracting solo adventures would eventually kill off Faces, the band he fronted. Less...
Saskia Baron
Sunday, 19 May 2019
It would be great to herald this low-budget drama about an elderly drag queen and his friendship with a young gay singer-...
Thomas H Green
Sunday, 19 May 2019
Shows by Gravity & Other Myths fall into the realm of “contemporary circus”. It’s an off-putting moniker, bringing to...
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tv
Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic, Series 8 Finale review – who will sit on the Iron Throne?
HBO’s epic saga ends a controversial final season on a high
Gentleman Jack, BBC One review - the revolutionary life of Anne Lister
Suranne Jones shines in Sally Wainwright's swashbuckling dramatisation
Cannes 2019: Too Old to Die Young - nightmarish LA noir
'Neon Demon' director Nicolas Winding Refn turns to TV with Miles Teller
film
Cannes 2019: Too Old to Die Young - nightmarish LA noir
'Neon Demon' director Nicolas Winding Refn turns to TV with Miles Teller
Last Stop Coney Island review - the life and photography of Harold Feinstein
Affectionate documentary portrait of a neglected American pioneer of street photography
Cannes 2019: Pain and Glory review - a dour, semi-autobiographical portrait
Pedro Almodóvar bares all with middling results in his twenty-first feature
new music
Sting and Shaggy, Roundhouse review - wilfully uncool and irrepressibly good fun
An unexpectedly boombastic evening from pop's most unlikely partnership
Rokia Traoré: Dream Mandé: Bamanan Djourou, Brighton Festival 2019 review – traditions soar free
Rokia Traoré takes Mali's music on a slow dance to transcendence
Chamber Music, Brighton Festival 2019 review - Wu-Tang Clan depths divined
The social and musical roots of the Wu-Tang Clan's debut discussed
classical
First Person: Liam Byrne on bringing Versailles to the City's 'Culture Mile'
The viola da gamba player on pleasures at the Barbican's free Sound Unbound festival
Classical CDs Weekly: Mahler, Schumann, Tamara Stefanovich
Austro-German symphonies and a multinational piano recital
Benjamin Grosvenor, Barbican review - virtuosity at its classiest
The British pianist shines bright in subtle Schumann and old-school Liszt
opera
La Damnation de Faust, Glyndebourne review – bleak and compelling makeover
Berlioz's Romantic Everyman seen in a sobering light
Phaedra, Linbury Theatre review - from confusing passion to blazing afterlife
Henze's near-death experience gives this skewed mythology extraordinary life
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theatre
First Person: Ellen McDougall on finding the commonality in the American classic 'Our Town'
The director explains what drew her to the season-opener this summer at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Gravity & Other Myths: Backbone, Brighton Festival 2019 review - eyeboggling and very human circus show
Australian troupe dazzle with balletic acrobatics, stunning precision and teamwork
salt., Royal Court review - revisiting the Atlantic slave trade
One woman's journey to explore the slave trade is both personal and provocative
dance
Within the Golden Hour/Medusa/Flight Pattern, Royal Ballet review - the company shows its contemporary face
Osipova is astonishing as ever, but Medusa the ballet misses its mark
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Mitten wir im Leben sind, De Keersmaeker, Queyras, Rosas, Sadler's Wells review - Bach-worthy genius
Outwardly austere, inwardly vibrant life-and-death journey through the six Cello Suites
comedy
Al Murray as the Pub Landlord, Embassy Theatre Skegness review - comic pulls his punches
Ageing character has little new to say on Brexit
Ruby Wax, Brighton Festival 2019 review - how to be human
An evening of laughs alongside real lessons in mindfulness and neurology
Andy Hamilton, Brighton Festival 2019 review - gently amusing night of reminiscence
Comedy writing perennial spends an evening answering audience questions
gaming
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World War Z review - bloodthirsty fun with the zombie apocalypse
Chainsawing the brain-eaters as you battle against the tide of the undead
The Lego Movie 2 Videogame review - everything is not awesome
Few fresh ideas means this movie adaptation treads the same old ground
visual arts
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery review - naïve vulgarity and otherworldly onyx
Duds and gems in mixed show of paintings and sculptures
58th Venice Biennale review - confrontational, controversial, principled
Forcefully curated biennale which can overwhelm artists, sometimes purposefully
Cathy Wilkes, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale review - poetic and personal
Deeply personal sculptural installation muses on different generations of women and passing time
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