A new season of love: hit musical Rent returns to the West End with Gaten Matarazzo – in pictures
Jonathan Larson’s much-loved show about New York artists has been revived for its 30th anniversary with a cast…
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Trá Pháidín: Cloch’s Claí review – giddy Galway gang burst the boundaries of folk music
(World of Echo) With musical ideas spanning mariachi and motorik beats, and lyrics with Kneecap-grade rage, this…
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Geneva Lewis: Barber, Zorn, Glass album review – virtuosity and warmth
Lewis/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/New (Delos) The young New Zealand violinist has chosen an all-American programme…
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Take It Or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes Madness
Docufictional 1981 comedy captures the working-class ska-pop pranksters in their hungry years with an almost Loachian…
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Rhapsody: A Manifesto by Alice Oswald review – a history of the spoken word, from Homer to Ted Hughes
A twisting, beguiling investigation into the art of poetry that ends in a call to arms on behalf of the natural world…
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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about difficult recent years, being…
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Hay Fever review – Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski host Coward’s country house shenanigans
Wyndham’s theatre, London Grant brings shock-haired vigour as a vain novelist forced to welcome his boho children’s…
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Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant, frontman of UK heavy metal band Venom, dies aged 63
Singer and bassist helped turn Newcastle band into hugely influential force on thrash and black metal subgenres Conrad…
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Jackie Jackson obituary
Toots and the Maytals bass player whose melodic lines drove some of the biggest reggae hits of the 1960s and 70s The…
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Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson to watch Bafta Scotland awards in separate ‘relaxed’ space
Decision follows independent review into handling of February ceremony, where his involuntary tics caused a BBC crisis…
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The Last First: Winter K2 review – race up second highest mountain reveals fatal cost of human ambition
Amir Bar-Lev’s doc covering competing climbers trying to achieve something that has not been done before uncovers a…
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Orgy, apocalypse and exorcism: Faye Driscoll’s revolving bed puts everyone in a spin
The US performance-maker’s Weathering, which evokes people clinging to a life raft, has left a trail of overwhelmed…
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Dame Esther Rantzen obituary
Presenter and producer of That’s Life!, a TV series providing entertainment and consumer reporting, out of which came…
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Nicolas Cage calls Marvel movies ‘a glorified WWE’ with over-50s in ‘ridiculous outfits’
Star of Spider-Noir told fan convention he ‘spoke with love’ at seeing gifted actors for ever gearing up for superhero…
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Esther Rantzen: one of the UK’s boldest, bravest ever campaigners – right to the very end
When she got serious, she got very serious. The TV host boosted organ donations, closed down a school for abuse,…
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Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo
(Blue Note) In the jazz-soul singer’s ‘expression of queer liberation’, stars from Chaka Khan to Bill Callahan to…
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Gillian Anderson fights tooth and nail in marital meltdown
@sohoplace, London There is no shortage of sparring between Anderson and Billy Crudup in Edward Albee’s classic, though…
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East of Eden review – Florence Pugh in soapy Steinbeck adaptation is brilliant, compelling TV
This take on the 1952 novel is lavishly shot and full of excellent performances. It lacks the heft to be a full…
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‘It’s frustrating to see immoral videos do so well’: how YouTube sensation Half-Asleep Chris sent a rollercoaster to space and made Bella the cat a star
His videos of cats, loopy contraptions and theme park rides round the heavens (and his back garden) have notched up a…
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Gaza documentary NAZA beats Avengers Endgame: Encore to top Italian box office
Award-winning, Guardian-produced film focused on Israel’s mass killing of civilians extends run after sold-out…
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Post your questions for Michael Winterbottom
With us to mark the 24th anniversary of 24 Hour Party People, the director’s work includes everything from Cracker to A…
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Heavy metal is about uplifting the downtrodden. So why is alleged abuse by Marilyn Manson so easily forgotten?
Slipknot sharing their stage with a man accused of wrongdoing by more than a dozen women is the antithesis of…
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The Pussycat Dolls review – Nicole Scherzinger’s star power dominates fraught reunion
Utilita Arena, Birmingham First announced in 2019 and now launching with just three of the original lineup, the Dolls…
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Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups
Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women…
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The Swan contestants on the ‘sadistic’ pageant reality show: ‘Ultimately, we were just a job’
In a new documentary, film-maker Erin Lee Carr lifts the lid on the 2000s TV series that shocked America It was in…
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The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’
It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums…
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Renoir and Love review – the happiest exhibition of the year? Pourquoi pas!
National Gallery, London Grab your straw boater – and revel in these light-as-souffle masterpieces that celebrate…
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Radioactive trees to fighting fish: the best of Photoworks festival 2026 – in pictures
There are origami cats, Ecuadorian midwives and painful images from the Ukraine war at this year’s event, all under the…
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‘They’ll never bring us dowwwwwwwn!’ Wicked’s stars pick their favourite songs from the smash hit
The musical powerhouse has spawned huge hits, but which do its troupers love to belt out – even for the 1,700th time?…
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‘We got naked and covered ourselves in Vaseline’: Katherine Hubbard on photographing her ailing mother
Over five years, Hubbard photographed her mother at home as her memory declined – even persuading her to make nude body…
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Thunderbirds was far more than puppets on strings – it was a strikingly optimistic view of humanity
The British TV show followed five brothers and their wealthy father in the year 2065 as they go on valiant rescue…
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‘Stern, sensuous, almost kissable lips’: why sculptures can have far more power when they’re broken
From a pharoah’s pout to a Mussolini with a hole in the head, a new exhibition is exploring how some ancient fragments…
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JMW Turner’s ‘great love letter’ to Rome makes brief return to city before UK auction
Rome, From Mount Aventine will also visit Hong Kong and New York before it is expected to sell for record price A JMW…
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‘We wanted it to be a battlecry’: how Republica made 90s anthem Ready to Go
‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’ We always…
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The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media) review – bold but uneven focus on Palestinian voices
New Diorama theatre, London Passionate production based on testimonies from Gaza poses many questions regarding…
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Painting the French Riviera review – about as erotic and glamorous as a wet day in Margate
Royal Academy of Arts, London They’ve marginalised Matisse and given Picasso the cold shoulder – and what’s left seems…
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