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Sinatra: The Musical review – life of a legend brims with hits but never gets under his sk

Aldwych theatre, LondonFrank swings into the West End with a swaggering turn from Joel Harper-Jackson and plenty of style yet the script is flatOl’ Blue Eyes is back: first staged in Birmingham three years ago and workshopped since, this Frank Sinatra bio-musical has now hit the

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Pope Leo XIV to publish collection of early writings

Freedom Under Grace will feature previously unpublished homilies and addresses from 2001 to 2013, letting readers ‘observe the development of Prevost’s thinking’Robert Prevost – now Pope Leo XIV – is set to publish a collection of his writings from the 2000s in English later this

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Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction

Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins the nonfiction prize for The Escape from Kabul American writer Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell prize for political fiction for Transcription, a no

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Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award

‘Ambitious and welcoming’ venue that opened in 2020 praised for ‘reimagining what being a museum can mean’The Box in Plymouth has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world, for its “ambitious and welcoming approach”.Awarding it the

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Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open, but don’t expect a physical copy

The blockbuster launch is expected to dwarf the box office takings of the year’s biggest movies with one industry analyst predicting it could make $1bn within an hourIt is, quite simply, the most anticipated piece of entertainment since the Star Wars prequels and now, at last, yo

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Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glo

Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and low on corporate hypeWith Glastonbury in a fallow year, anyone missing their dose of West Country bacchanalia will have to settle for this handsome doc

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Teenage boys in UK ‘stuck’ reading primary-level books while girls’ tastes expand

Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series accounts for eight of the 10 most read books by 11- to 14-year-old boys, while girls the same age enjoy a wider range of authors and genresTeenage boys are “stuck” reading primary school books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while girls the

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The Guide #249: As Glastonbury has a fallow year, here’s why more much-loved culture shoul

In this week’s newsletter: The festival always comes back fresher after allowing Worthy Farm to recover from its yearly musical extravaganza. Star Wars and Charli xcx could learn a thing or twoIn any other year this week’s Guide would be arriving into your inbox from Worthy Farm,

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Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

The director of The Producers hits his century as a uniquely beloved entertainer who embodies his conviction that ‘comedy is the opposite of death’Mel Brooks’ story is that of the US and Jews and American Jewish comedy. He was born on the kitchen table of a tenement in Brooklyn a

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I was a whinger, a cynic, a misanthrope. Then I saw Harry Styles live – and I will never b

I knew my 11-year-old son would love an evening at Wembley with his favourite star. But nothing prepared me for what it would mean to meThe answers to some little questions are hugely revealing. We pass it off as small talk, but asking about somebody’s first anything often reveal

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Haunted hooks and bone-chilling screams: how Chanel Beads became the indie breakout of the

Tipped by Lorde and Billie Eilish, the New York musician twists sublime folk and chaotic synths into bewitching new shapesAt first Shane Lavers can’t get through. Then he’s on video call but I cannot speak. When we finally make a clear connection over the phone, I can hear that h

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‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in EnglishJames Norton is to take on his first major Shakespearean stage role and play Hamlet in the West End next year.The King & Conqueror star said it was a “privileg

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