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Popcorn with your Puccini: can opera on screen ever work?
Composers have harnessed TV and cinema since Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors pulled in five million viewers 75 years ago but for my money Kombat Opera’s satire…
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‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?
With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos…
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Our Friends in the North: The Thatcher Years review – old pals back on the toon as TV series gets squished
Theatre Royal, NewcastleThey have appeared in epic BBC dramas since their RSC debut but Peter Flannery’s…
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A grieving female elephant carrying a stillborn baby: Federico Veronesi’s best photograph
‘She carried the dead calf for hours even though it wasn’t hers. She had had a…
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‘The audience gets to be in on it’: How narrative-led gameplay is Call of Duty’s greatest weapon
As video games chase spectacle, Modern Warfare 4 makes a case for putting character and consequence…
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UK cinemas report ‘bonkers’ demand for documentary You Can See Everything
Tickets for film about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes said to be selling out after $15m opening…
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Why has a crumbling bottle plant been rebuilt in Paris? The stunning show suggesting the future is Ghana-shaped
Fondation Cartier, ParisIbrahim Mahama put an entire factory in this exhibition exploring Ghana before and after…
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As fans reject AI-generated music, even boosters are drawing the line
Enthusiasts like Grimes and A$AP Rocky may embrace AI-generated content, but they won’t produce it themselvesStreaming…
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High School Musical review – Disney fave is sweet, slick and as squeaky clean as ever
Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonHarry Judd is the coach while KayCee Stroh from the original movies…
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Usha Vance is a closed book – but her Goodreads account is surprisingly revealing | Arwa Mahdawi
From Roman-era political potboilers to stories of Catholic priests struggling to impose their authority, what could…