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1+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) The festival has launched some of the biggest names in the arts, and continues to discover hidden gems This year, the world’s largest performing arts festival will stage 3,649 shows from 71 countries across 258 venues, culminating in a “mammoth” 53,884 performances, said Annie…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (227+ words) Hilariously awkward couple-swapping movie with a big star cast Seth Rogen is “better than ever” as Joe, a failed musician unhappily married to frustrated housewife Angela (Wilde). One day he comes home to find that she has invited their hot…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (264+ words) Being alive is as ‘contradictory’ and ‘hilarious’ as ever in The Land and its People “What can there possibly be left in the Sedaris backstory that the writer hasn’t already mined?” asked Emma Brockes in The Guardian. The American humourist…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (302+ words) Stephen Mangan shines in Florian Zeller’s ‘double helix’ of marital deceit The French playwright Florian Zeller is best known for 2012’s “The Father”, the elliptical dementia drama that – in its film adaptation – won Anthony Hopkins his second Oscar, said Clive…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (560+ words) Get some live chuckles from Mo Amer, Ilana Glazer and more It’s summertime again, and that means musicians aren’t the only performers you can catch on stage. Get a laugh or two with these talented stand-up comics currently on tour....

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1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (536+ words) Justin Klawans has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022. He began his career covering local news before joining Newsweek as a breaking news reporter, where he wrote about politics, national and global affairs, business, crime, sports, film,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (415+ words) The Week A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Victoria Wood’s death ten years ago, aged just 62, left “a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (209+ words) A ‘lively, progressive’ take in Birmingham has similar feel to Globe’s ‘effervescent comic performances’ The former, from the Birmingham Rep’s new artistic director Joe Murphy and his deputy Madeleine Kludje, is a “larky”, panto-like “spectacle that feasts on popular culture,…...