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Midnight Cowboy: This musical adaptation is disquieting and distasteful
The 1969 film was hugely successful – but this production at Southwark Playhouse jarringly sets the mournful story to upbeat rock
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How Athol Fugard’s The Island exposed the true horrors of apartheid
This 1974 play by Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, became an international sensation – and has lost none of its power
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Punch: another state-of-the-nation masterpiece from James Graham
James Graham’s play, based on the story of Jacob Dunne who killed a man with a single punch in 2011, is a powerful meditation on morality
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East is South: a disquieting AI thriller from the House of Cards creator
Starring Kaya Scodelario of Skins fame, Beau Willimon’s audacious new play is challenging but rewarding
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How the voice of Harlem became the king of crime fiction
Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of their own
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Murder on the Orient Express: a remarkably stylish and humorous take on the Agatha Christie tale
Poirot’s air of cerebral superiority is brilliantly captured in this taut, pacy touring production
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Odyssey ‘84: Homer meets the miners’ strike in this audacious new drama
Tim Price brings a fresh approach to one of the most tumultuous periods of British history with this lacerating yet frequently humorous play
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Filumena, Theatre Royal, Windsor, review: Felicity Kendal enchants in this evergreen comedy of gender politics
With strong support from Matthew Kelly, the Good Life star is terrific as a former prostitute out to secure legitimacy for her children
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The Cabinet Minister, Menier Chocolate Factory, review: a formidably funny skewering of Britain’s obsession with class
Nancy Carroll’s adaptation of Victorian playwright Arthur Wing Pinero’s parliamentary farce is a delightfully pacy and fully engaging affair
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The philosophical genius we all need to read
Boethius offers both intellectual stimulation and spiritual succour. So why, 1500 years after his death, is he so unappreciated?
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A Face in the Crowd, Young Vic review: a scathing morality tale for our strident Trumpian era
Kwame Kwei-Armah’s farewell production is a crowd-pleasingly indulgent choice full of effervescent, foot-tapping numbers and rousing ballads
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How cancel culture destroyed the campus novel
Fifty years ago, Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue skewered academic life. Today, our campuses are so close to parody that satire is redundant
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‘I have no wish to make war’: why it’s time to remember the forgotten Father of Humanism
Petrarch, who died 650 years ago, is in danger of neglect. But anyone who has ever been in love should read his sonnets
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Skeleton Crew, Donmar Warehouse: An edgy, joyful evocation of the working-class, African-American experience
This highly anticipated staging of Dominique Morisseau’s 2016 play emerges as a trenchant critique of the excesses of capitalism
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Why Ernest J Gaines is literature’s best-kept secret
The award-winning author is celebrated in America, but strangely ignored in the UK. We are missing a treat
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Why the PC film snobs are wrong about Trading Places
Its off-colour jokes may be unpalatable to some. But the satire and humanity of this 1983 comedy make it essential holiday viewing
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