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What are the chances of the Durham miners’ gala making an appearance in two consecutive plays? That’s the case in this lively double bill by young north-east writers. On both…
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Elton John has scored his first No 1 single in 16 years, in the same week he underwent a successful hip replacement.The 74-year-old tops the UK chart with Cold Heart, a…
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The original Halloween painted a frightening vision of suburban life. None of its sequels has managed to do the same.Ryan Green / Universal PicturesThe 1978 film Halloween, for all…
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The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction moves from life in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich to places humans have abandoned, and from the mystery of…
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Much is made, in the publicity around this stage refit of The Good Life, of its modern relevance – society in the 2020s being even more concerned with sustainability and…
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For his new ballet, Wayne McGregor has enlisted some big hitters. Dante Alighieri for one, Italy’s greatest poet, author of The Divine Comedy, which McGregor reimagines here, but…
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Going to the theatre in a pre-pandemic world, my first question was always whether I could use the toilets. With so many of the UK’s theatres dating back decades, or centuries,…
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Bans and attempted bans of critical race theory and the 1619 Project in classrooms are part of a familiar pattern: Your weekly guide to the best in booksSam Hodgson / The New York…
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On 25 June 2019, it was a glorious sunny day in Glasgow. I spent the morning cheerfully packing suitcases with my wife, Jackie. I was a script writer by trade, and a songwriter…
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In The Happy Prince, one of Oscar Wilde’s most popular stories, the statue of a Prince begs a swallow to give his gold leaf and jewels to the poor people of his town. Now…
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