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Published: 11 February 2010
BY DAVID LAING
AS one might expect from a production of Hamlet that incorporates such varied and obscure influences as...
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Published: 11 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB
IS there something about the Lion and Unicorn that attracts those interested in the darkest corners of the...
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Published: 11 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB
• FLAMENCO fans, take note: the Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival is opening in just a few...
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Published: 11 February 2010
ALMEIDA, Almeida Street, N1, 020 7359 4404. Measure for Measure, Mon-Sat 7.30; £8-£32. February 12-...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by ILLTYD HARRINGTON
IN the pantheon of international Jewry, three iconic figures still wield significant influence over...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by JOHN HORDER
YOU may have heard the formidable PD James on Radio 4’s Today programme, passionately confronting...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by ANGELA COBBINAH
WHEN John Howard Griffin’s account of his journey through America’s Deep South was first...
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PUBLISHED: 4 February 2010
by MATTHEW LEWIN
THERE were two Chinese men at the end table eating apparently interesting things from a pot in the...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by CLARE LATIMER
WELL the first great bit of breaking news is that my shop has moved into the 21st century and we now have...
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Published: 4 February 2010
By DAN CARRIER
APPARENTLY Nelson Mandela was playing with friends that game where you ask each other who you would like...
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Published by: 4 February 2010
by DAN CARRIER
ASTRO Boy, for all his rosy apple cheeks, super quick mobility, and cutesy use of language, is actually...
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Published: 4 February 2010
By DAN CARRIER
DOES Linda Hamilton take holidays in Ireland? Was she heading to the Old Country (like the Hamiltons in...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by DAN CARRIER
GET ready to swoon: throughout this month, the British Film Institute is screening a series of Johnny Depp...
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Published 4 February 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
FRIENDS and musical associates of trumpeter, band leader, teacher and composer Ian Carr are putting...
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Published: 4 February 2010
By HELEN LAWRENCE
THE history of Sergei Prokofiev’s early opera The Gambler, a social satire based on Dostoyevsky...
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Published 4 February 2010
RUSSIAN conductor Valery Gergiev has a reputation for an abrasive yet passionate, conducting style, often with a toothpick...
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Published 4 February 2010
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5
Jazz singer Trudy Kerr & Dave Higgins Quintet: Pizza Express, Dean Street, Soho,
0845 6027 017...
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Published 4 February 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
THEY once made such a huge dent in a Camden pub that their audience were forced to sit down for the...
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Published 4 February 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
THE line-up for the Roundhouse’s Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser on February 25 is shaping up nicely...
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Published 4 February 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
I'VE signed the three-page confidentiality agreement and have promised not to say a word until February...
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Published: 4 February 2010
By KATTY PEARCE
Friday, February 5
All Time Low + The Blackout + Young Guns + My Passion (Kerrang! Relentless Tour),...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by MARK OGIER
FOUR years on and Wicked has lost none of its magic.
This glittering revisionist story set in the land of Oz...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by KATTY PEARCE
VETERAN RSC actor Oliver Cotton obeys the rule of writing what you know in his debut play. Two actors, one...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by ANNA LEACH
A plot concerning the death of a man from a physical illness is not interesting without significant...
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Published: 4 February 2010
by JACK COURTNEY O'CONNOR
“YOU can’t cut a man’s roots” exclaims the mysterious cousin (...
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Published: February 4 2010
by SARAH RAINEY
WHEN the bouncers enter, stony-faced, to the chords of Carmina Burana, it’s clear that this is...
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Published: February 4 2010
by JOSH LOEB
• EVEN to seasoned observers of the London fringe, it seemed to spring from nowhere – but with...
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Published: February 4 2010
ALMEIDA, Almeida Street, N1, 020 7359 4404. Rope, Mon-Sat 7.30; Sat Mat 3pm; £8-£32. Until Feb 6.
ARCOLA...
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Published 28 January 2010
by JOHN CALDER
THE world is beginning to realise that, in spite of the assurances of financial pundits, much of the press...
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Published 28 January 2010
by DAN CARRIER
WRITING is a lonely old occupation. Slaving over a hot keyboard, you are on your own.
The effort required is...
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PUBLISHED: 28 January 2010
by DAN CARRIER
THE doors of the Working Men’s College have had countless numbers of people walk through them, their...
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Published: 28 January 2010
by DAN CARRIER
YIDDISH Karaoke sounds like the sort of whacky night out you find in trendy bars in Hoxton and Old Street...
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Published: 28 January 2010
by DAN CARRIER
HIS voice acted as a poetical reality check for those in power, and the death of poet Adrian Mitchell in...
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Published: 28 January 2010
by JOSH LOEB
WHEN teachers have extramarital affairs with their pupils it can spark disapproval from some quarters....
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Published: 28 January 2010
by MATTHEW LEWIN
TONY Blair is a war criminal; Barack Obama is just another politician trying to get re-elected; Hugo...
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Published: 28 January 2010
by KATTY PEARCE
THE brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge is being remembered at the London Jewish Cultural Centre this week. An...
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THE Real Van Gogh, the latest blockbuster Royal Academy exhibition, focuses on the artist’s remarkable correspondence.
More than 35...
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I’m still recovering from a potato frenzy in Peckham. On Sunday, hundreds of people squashed into a school hall to buy rare varieties of spud...
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Published: 28 January 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
DEAD Like Harry have serenaded a stranger’s girlfriend, played to nothing but the sea when the...
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Published: 28 January 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
THE Town Hall this week approved the Camden Crawl’s licence for this year. The most interesting...