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6 minutes ago
Pop and pregnancy as a solo star gets back in the groove

Sadie Frost, 46, is curled up on a sofa while rehearsing her new one-woman show, Touched...Like a Virgin.


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1 day ago
Agenda: Hand-printed Bauhaus tights; Queen of Hearts; Cinemagram;

Fashion: Be haus proud


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1 day ago
Rambert, Sadler's Wells, London François Testory, Robin Howard Dance Theatre,...

Next year Rambert really will have something to celebrate, when it moves to gleaming new premises on London's South Bank. But for the moment it has the 100th birthday of the world's first piece of modern dance to toast, and 10 years of able leadership from Mark Baldwin, who offers his own choreog...


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1 day ago
Slumdog the musical calls in Julian Fellowes

It was an old-fashioned Hollywood fairy tale: the low-budget movie, with a feel-good plotline and a virtually unknown cast, that managed to capture the public imagination before walking away with no fewer than eight Oscars at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.


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1 day ago
What the Butler Saw, Vaudeville Theatre, London The Sunshine Boys, Savoy Thea...

Vintage comedies are all the rage. The West End can't get enough of them since One Man, Two Guvnors (an 18th-century classic that was rejigged as a Sixties seaside caper) proved a roaring, award-winning success, alongside Noises Off and The Ladykillers. Are theatreland's latest additions to thi...


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The muse who inspired Bond and Noel Coward


THE PARTIES were legendary, with guests including Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery and Elizabeth Taylor. Their hosts, Noel Coward and James Bond creator Ian Fleming, would entertain at their beautiful Jamaican retreats. There was, however, another stunning host, who was more than a match for them i...
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1 day ago
Verdi's Falstaff


CANADIAN director Robert Carsen claimed that he set Falstaff in the Fifties because to have set it in Elizabethan times would be "like doing it in fancy dress" and he was interested in clothes rather than costumes. In fact, his idea of Fifties Windsor is really a costume fantasy as dreamt up by H...
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2 days ago
Observations One to Watch: Carmen Giannattasio, Opera singer

 


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2 days ago
Observations: If only Irving Berlin had had broadband

When UK-based Jonathan Kydd and Californian-based Andy Street, who writes the incidental music for American Idol, decided to write a musical together they were not deterred by distance.


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2 days ago
DVD/Blu-ray: Haywire (15)

Martial-arts champion Gina Carano is convincing as lethal Mallory, a black ops commando who is assigned by her slimy boss (Ewan McGregor) to “babysit” Michael Fassbender's agent in Dublin.


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