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Degas - Lord of the dance

14.09.11
An exhibition at the Royal Academy displays the master Impressionist's irrepressible determination to capture movement, says Brian Sewell... more

Antigone gets an Arab spin

03.06.11
Tom Littler has had the nifty idea of transposing the ancient Greek classic Antigone to a generic Middle Eastern country in the present-day Arab Spring... more

Electra-fying performances in this Greek tragedy

14.04.11
Nick Payne's urgent new version of Sophocles's Electra is another in a long line of boundary-breaking offerings... more

Summer in the shadow of Oedipus in Fabrication

12.11.10
Fabrication is, from its title onwards, intense and abstract but The Print Room are taking risks... more

Murderers, monks and misfits; what to see at the London Film Festival

17.09.10
Booking for this year's BFI London Film Festival opens next week. It's set to sell out fast, so to help you save time here's our pick of what to see... more

Conrad Black: Pleasure and pain of life after prison

22.07.10
As former Telegraph owner leaves a US jail, Jonathan Aitken remembers the turbulent days that followed the initial euphoria of his own release... more

Welcome to Thebes is a very African Greek tragedy

23.06.10
Although the characters have names that call to mind Sophocles and Euripides — Antigone, Tiresias, Theseus — the setting is modern and African... more

Prepare for the celebrity book war

08.10.09
The race for the lion's share of the Christmas memoirs market is under way. David Sexton and Nick Curtis sort wheat from chaff... more

Never mind GCSEs, judge students by their howlers

28.08.09
Another summer, another sun-dappled shot of pretty 16-year-girls hyperventilating at their GCSE results... more

Arcadia provides feast of ideas from Tom Stoppard

05.06.09
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is that rare thing, a toothsome entertainment that also thrills us with a dozen strange thoughts before bedtime.... more

Forbidden lust in A View From the Bridge

06.02.09
Lindsay Posner's menacing production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge provides a shocking, emotional dynamic.... more

Oedipus is big, brave and bold

16.10.08
It is an evening of many flaws, but as Ralph Fiennes demonstrates, Oedipus remains irresistibly terrifying. ... more

Nobel thoughts swamped in Burial of Thebes

13.10.08
Burial of Thebes' rudimentary direction left the cast to mill aimlessly, with only the most conventional stagecraft to support them.... more

In the end, Dostoevsky, too, saw the need for God

30.09.08
You can accuse the Archbishop of Canterbury of many things but at least he has impeccable taste in literature... more

Shakespeare's Globe stages operatic first

14.07.08
The Globe Theatre will be staging its first full opera this autumn... more

Return of the rejects: Fired Apprentice contestants back for a special last show

10.06.08
The Apprentice rejects were back with a vengeance as they got together to film the final You're Hired! show.... more

You're fixed! Apprentice show caught in second fixing row

05.04.08
The Apprentice has been caught in a second fixing row as it was revealed hopeful contestant Michael Sophocles worked for a firm with close ties to the show. The 25-year-old telesales worker was employed by the publisher of the TV hit's official magazine, it has been revealed... more

Sunday shows at the National

17.01.08
The National Theatre is to stage performances on Sundays in a move that will cost it between £300,000 and £500,000 a year extra in wages.... more

Irons to make his National debut as former PM

16.01.08
Jeremy Irons is to make his National Theatre debut in a new play on the life of prime minister Harold Macmillan.... more

Striking old-fashioned notes

20.09.07
A modern take on Sophocles's Antigone is restrained and overly stylised, the required heat isn't present in this tepid performance.... more

Killed by his conscience

05.01.07
Martyrdom is the subject of iWitness, a fascinating play from Joshua Sobol, which offers a lesson in the nobility and stupidity of self-sacrifice. ... more


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