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London theatre: the best family shows to book now
London has a world-leading theatre scene, and it’s particularly strong when it comes to family shows. Head to the West End, and beyond, and you’ll find everything from beloved Disney movies-turned-enthralling musicals to innovative, accessible shows featuring puppetry, comedy, songs and more.
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Hop it, Shakespeare – 8 adaptations that beat the Bard’s original
The Taming of the Shrew is another play now mired in “problematic” territory. However, the Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles-led romcom 10 Things I Hate About You gives it new life with a witty, astute transposition of Shrew’s murky sexual politics to high school. All credit to director and screenwriter Gil Junger, who stays faithful to the architecture of the original, while giving the female characters more agency, introducing a clever contemporary framing (Kat and Bianca’s obstetrician dad frets
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What’s that song? The internet’s lunatic obsession with tracing ‘lost’ music
It sounds like a hit single half-remembered from your childhood. Eighties-style synths and electronic handclaps lead into a ghostly new-wave vocal. If it wasn’t for the tape hiss, you could be listening to an early Roxette tune or a version of Kim Carnes’s Bette Davis Eyes from an alternate universe.
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What’s on TV tonight: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, A Man in Full and more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz Sky Atlantic, 2.05am & 9pm This immensely moving six-part drama is based on Heather Morris’s bestselling novel, inspired by the story of Holocaust survivors Lale and Gita Sokolov who met while prisoners in Auschwitz. It’s a remarkable story of love triumphing over evil, with Jonah Hauer-King (World on Fire) sensitively portraying the young Lale. His job was to ink identification numbers on fellow prisoners’ arms – a job that he took, with great regret and shame, becaus
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Without Duane Eddy, these five guitar classics wouldn’t exist
Duane Eddy was the first guitar hero of rock’n’roll. He was only 19 when he started scoring instrumental hits in 1957, showcasing his clean, resonant guitar sound and carefully articulated motifs.
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The best poetry books of 2024 so far
Isfahan – currently in the news as the target of Israeli missile strikes – is home to some of Iran’s greatest architectural jewels, among them the misleadingly named “Palace of 40 Pillars”. It has only half that many. The other 20 are an optical illusion, reflections floating in the lake it faces.
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The Bucks Fizz story: ‘We earned less than the backing band’
After 90 minutes of tears and bombshells with the female half of the original Bucks Fizz (Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston), as well as third founding member Mike Nolan, it feels like a miracle the band are still alive, let alone performing together. It’s been 43 years since they won the Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up, and the group’s eye-popping backstory encompasses countless line-up changes, feuds, lawsuits, punch-ups, a horrific coach crash, life-changing illnesses, bankruptcy an
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