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Duke Bluebeard's Castle

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JLS snatch Cheryl Cole's chart crown

Boy band JLS stole Cheryl Cole's crown as their single Everybody in Love went to the top of the charts. Comments

Slim pickings in The Rite Of Spring

Michael Keegan-Dolan is the latest to try his hand at The Rite Of Spring although he is one of the least successful. Comments

Take That Mark Owen ties the knot

Take That member Mark Owen tied the knot at a wedding ceremony in the Scottish Highlands. Comments

In pictures: Mark Owen gets married

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Darwin explored in Gilbert Is Dead

Robin French's script is not without its drawbacks but overall has the agreeable air of a little-visited outpost of a rambling museum in Gilbert Is Dead. Comments

Hot tickets: London's going out guide

Debbie Allen's innovative production of Tennessee Williams's modern classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof comes to London. Comments

Lilting and tender show from Gurrumul

The most extraordinary thing about the Australian Aboriginal megastar Gurrumul is his voice. Comments

A captivating love story in Bright Star

Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan Comments

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Actors rebuild themselves in Architecting

What do you get if you combine corsets, cabaret and abstract dance routines? Architecting would be the answer Comments

Enjoy a thrill ride with A Christmas Carol

Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel Comments

All life through the lens with Taylor Wessing prize

It is hardly surprisingly that the overall winner of this year's Ł12,000 Photographic Portrait Prize is Paul Floyd Blake's image of Rosie Bancroft Comments

High school vampire teasing in Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox, is no ordinary splatter movie but one written by Diablo Cody, who penned Juno Comments

CDs of the week: Robbie Williams has a cracking comeback album

When Robbie Williams's pleasing, pleading voice is coupled with a background orchestra on Superblind he has something he's never previously come close to: gravitas. Comments