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In this neon dream of a police procedural, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas take on the city’s crime problem while looking as cool as possibleGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLinen suits. Boat shoes. Speedboats. Neon. Welcome to the ex...
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Rapper and singer was acclaimed for partnership with producer LTJ Bukem, and went on to become a producer and label head in his own rightMC Conrad, the vocalist who helped broaden and deepen the scope for jungle and drum’n’bass during the 1990s and b...
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Alicia Keys musical and play both score 13 nominations as Jeremy Strong and Rachel McAdams also recognizedThis year’s Tony nominations are led by Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen and 70s-set music drama Stereophonic both with 13 nods each.Hell’s Ki...
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Lyric Hammersmith, LondonMax Webster and David Haig’s ambitious female-led stage version of the sci-fi thriller is overwhelmed by its own opticsThis ambitious co-production was always going to throw down the gauntlet for large-scale, special-effects...
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The port explosion of 2020 damaged just about everything in the city and this painful but tender doc follows a film crew who try to resume work‘How much bad news can you get in one day?” That’s the production manager of a Lebanese movie called Costa...
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Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as ‘emerging adulthood’ or delaying ‘adult’ lifeYoung adult fiction such as The Hunger Games, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder...
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The jukebox musical based on the 1994 film follows a string of high-profile early closures with producers saying the show has faced ‘difficult times’An immersive jukebox musical production based on the 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla...
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Shortlist dominated by institutions that have undergone extensive renovations, including Young V&A and Manchester MuseumThe National Portrait Gallery, the Manchester Museum and the Young V&A are among the contenders for this year’s museum of...
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Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a sweet-natured and beautifully photographed portrait of a grumpy middle-aged guy, his sceptical wife and their teenage daughterHere is the second feature from Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan, set in a Damascus sub...
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From Shaolin wall-runners to caged birds and S&M clubs, these images have all inspired their own Granta magazine stories – and now is your chance to buy one Continue reading...
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This entertaining study of our obsession with Armageddon and its energising impact on the arts shows that every generation believes it will witness the world’s endThroughout the 500-plus pages of Dorian Lynskey’s overview of the art and literature of...
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The comedian, author and presenter learns about the long shadow of British colonialism. Plus: it’s the Interior Design Masters final. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5It’s the final week of Palin’s 1,300-mile journey across Nigeria, and...
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2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddamEight new productions, a world premiere, a European premiere – and a name change: the Royal Ballet and Opera, as it is no...
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He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?It’s fair to say James Baldwin wasn’t a fan of The Exorcist. “It...
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British Museum, LondonMichelangelo’s drawings were anything but dull, but this exhibition sucks out all the drama by focusing on his spirituality at the expense of his sexualityLord Elgin, you let us down. With all the masterpieces of world art that...