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tv

Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll make an urbane crime-solving duo

It's 1986, and a Melbourne TV news team are battling rival stations and each other

A mysterious woman caller turns an ambulance dispatcher's life inside out
film

Chasteningly mundane history of punk venue Max's, plus Sid Vicious' last stand

Daniel Watson and Toyah Willcox shine as a disabled man and his doughty mam

Innocence ends abruptly for a group of school leavers in Emilie Aussel's promising directorial debut
new music

Unstoppable South African groove machine gets another day in the sun

Ambitious but comfortable return after testing times for Brit-Rock heavies Kasabian
classical

A luscious musical tour with the cream of young players

This splendid institution's CEO explains its egalitarian role in the musical ecosystem
A stylish visit from Manchester's finest
opera

A Tarantino-style Ring cycle offers many inspired scenes, but little coherence or depth

Savoy turkey almost flies, in a spirited new staging

Music of charm or character not always trusted in its presentation
theatre

Three shows at the Traverse take in gritty realism and no-holds-barred farce

A musical whodunnit and an ovine origin story

Strong constituent parts in Alan Cumming's Burns dance show - but do they add up?
dance

Completion of the city’s big Dante project with 'Paradiso' is only one of three wonders

At last, the pan-African production of Bausch's landmark choreography arrives on the London stage

An explosive restaging of the original dance drama
comedy

The world's biggest and best arts festival begins

Gags range from dick pics to feminism and immigration law

Former Sewing Bee host tells a complicated tale
Books

AI meets Penelope meets Ada Lovelace in this meditation on text, tissue and textile

Powerful poems of pilgrimage, loss and belonging along the Camino de Santiago

The ghosts gather as the miniaturist returns in Burton’s latest instalment
visual arts

A slow reveal of the painter dubbed the American Matisse

In love and war: one of England's great watercolourists reappraised

The brilliance of an amateur photographer who was almost lost to the world
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