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tv

James Nesbitt returns as another troubled policeman with a dark back-story (and matching eyebrows)

James Graham's drama exposes wounds that never healed from the 1980s miners' strike

The Danish series about a top woman politician is still smarter than 'The West Wing'
film

An outstanding debut by the Greek New Wave director Jacqueline Lentzou

Nothing much happens in Alice Diop's documentary portrait of the periphery

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

Who can match The Rolling Stones firing on all cylinders? No one, that’s who

US artist's latest is singular to the point of opaque, but also often intriguing
classical

Chopin the modernist, Rzewski the electric in totally satisfying recital

His home city of Kharkiv in ruins, a great musician plays on

Edmund Finnis song cycle gets its launch with passion, anguish and consolation
opera

Gianandrea Noseda, Andreas Homoki and top cast dazzle in an unforgettable 'Rheingold'

The great singing actor on his best experiences - including Zurich Opera's new Ring

Anna Dennis shines, but composer Tom Coult and librettist Alice Birch play at anti-opera
theatre

Roy Williams’s latest is a tribute to the children of the Windrush generation

Bravado support from a cantankerous Bill Pullman practically steals the show

Broadway entry from 2017 is the rare sequel that richly delivers
dance

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

An explosive restaging of the original dance drama

Christopher Wheeldon's usual flair deserts him in his latest three-act story ballet
comedy

An equal opportunities offender delivers a masterclass in meta comedy

Setting the world to rights, one joke at a time
Books

How the separatist republic became lost in its nostalgia for a largely imaginary past

A sumptuous, subtle novel on darkness and hope

Mapping the mindspace of all beings great and small
visual arts

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

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

This wildly ambitious mega-exhibition unravels in spectacular style
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