Big Girls Don’t Cry review – a New Zealand teenager finds herself in tender coming-of-age tale
Writer-director Paloma Schneideman’s wonderful film follows a 14-year-old in 2006 who pretends to be someone else in a…
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Can young theatre-makers act for 50 hours straight, fuelled by pizza and determination? They’ve done it before
Australia’s oldest youth-owned arts company – whose alumni include Hilary Bell and Trevor Ashley – marks its 50th year…
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Contact review – Jonny Donahoe delivers a heated reunion at a bonfire of family photos
Òran Mór, Glasgow Blythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this…
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Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies
One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a…
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Only connect: two composers who put humans at the heart of their music, and the conductor who didn’t
This week, from Reich to Kendall and Celibidache, three musicians who prove there is no such thing as “pure music”,…
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The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg
Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that…
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‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles
From a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The…
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Post your questions for Celia Imrie
From Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques to Calendar Girls, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and her infamous appearance on The…
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‘I was drawn to the femminielli’: blurring gender in Naples – in pictures
Roman Manfredi took to the Neopolitan streets to photograph intimate portraits of locals who live outside binary gender…
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O2 signs record deal to keep London venue’s naming rights
Exclusive: 10-year sponsorship extension at a 50% premium on last agreement crowns bonanza year for live venue O2 has…
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‘Like swapping a Bentley for a Ferrari’: can the Harry Potter stage show survive being chopped in half?
After a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work? Our writer swishes…
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‘I was so out of control!’ Bez on cocaine, Happy Mondays, his ‘sexless marriage’ to Shaun Ryder, organic courgettes …
Drugs, drink and dancing made Bez famous. Thirty-five years on, has he really swapped it all for filtered water,…
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The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture
The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry…
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Silver Pines review – a stylish, neo-noir detective drama
PC, PS5, Switch 2; Wych Elm Games, Team 17 Abandoned shops, ruined apartment buildings and rotting sewer networks make…
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V/H/S/Mixtape review – murderous puppets pull the strings in mixed bag of gory music-themed mini-movies
Metal band Gwar host this instalment of the horror series, which serves up darkly humorous movie morsels that would…
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‘We got that bad guy and took him down!’ Jaclyn Smith on the fun, friendship and frustration of Charlie’s Angels
It’s 50 years since Smith joined TV’s bikini-clad crime fighters alongside Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson. She talks…
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Axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining for sale as part of Stanley Kubrick auction
Exclusive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive A…
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Partita By Barbara Kingsolver review – a midlife follow-up to Demon Copperhead
The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and…
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Bottles, brass bands and a blood red sea: a trip through the Balkans – in pictures
Irina Rozovsky’s latest book Black Mountain Heart provides a stunning view of the Balkan states, balancing vitality and…
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TV tonight: a striking film about the late musician Beldina Odenyo
Her half-sister pieces together her demos for an album in this moving documentary. Plus: Bake Off lets the fans set the…
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‘I call them erotic landscapes’: fashion photographer Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain
He has shot everyone from Madonna to Rihanna, Kate Moss and Frank Ocean. Now Walker has turned his lens on the…
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Aphrodite review – a trashy way to treat the goddess of love
Ashmolean museum, Oxford She’s the ultimate female nude, a Greek goddess who inspired centuries of artists. Yet despite…
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Barkouf review – Offenbach’s lost operetta is a quirky shaggy dog story
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Opera Rara revive the 1860 work in which a dog is appointed Sultan. A fine cast, the Hallé…
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Play that funky Turbine Hall! How artist Tarek Atoui aims to take the Tate on a sonic odyssey
From underwater explosions to PlayStation joysticks, the Lebanese artist makes art inspired by sound. Can this work in…
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Aditya Chakrabortty and Yanis Varoufakis dissect democracy: best podcasts of the week
The Guardian columnist and former Greek finance minister tackle big political questions in a hugely entertaining chat.…
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TV tonight: an essential film about the story of Damilola Taylor
John Boyega, who was friends with Damilola, speaks in this moving programme. Plus: David Harewood’s superb new legal…
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‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery
It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s…
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Mike Nelson review – a waking nightmare of derelict dunes and desert island despair
Modern Art Oxford Entropy and hopelessness become thrillingly confrontational in this ambitious show, which recreates…
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Wakaliga Uganda review – a blistering superhero movie with hardboiled cops and a nefarious ‘girl with a voluminous bum’
Chisenhale Gallery, London A young man possessed by the spirit of a mythical Buganda warrior leads the film-making…
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TV tonight: Eric Morecambe’s children’s book comes to life
The Reluctant Vampire is a fun story starring Lenny Rush. Plus: secrets are spilled in juicy divorce drama The Split…
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TV tonight: Strictly shakes up movie week!
All celebrities will dance to a classic film track for the first time in the show’s history. Plus: Lesley Manville’s…
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A caiman wearing a wig, two brown bears laughing and a leopard doing a handstand feature in the selection of finalists…
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‘I thought Brassed Off might be popular within a 10 mile radius of Barnsley’: the director of Andy Burnham’s favourite film on its 30-year anniversary
Ahead of a live performance in the Royal Albert Hall, the writer Mark Herman explains why he’s not surprised it’s one…
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Fangs a million: Lenny Rush on turning an Eric Morecambe classic into a hilarious vampire comedy
He won a Bafta while only a teen, and now he’s the lead in a creepy sitcom adapted by Alan Partridge’s writers. Ahead…
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Ravishing Renoir, cool Britannia and mighty Aphrodite – the week in art
Swoon at immaculate impressionism, ’ave it large with 90s Brit art and fashion and head to the beach with Cézanne,…
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Stories shortlisted for 4thWrite prize offer ‘a whole world in a few pages’
The six stories on the shortlist for the 10th year of the writing award run by 4th Estate and the Guardian and open to…
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