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A special edition on the Romantics Festival on London's South Bank
Restoration by Edward Bond – did the Butler do it?
Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play
The Vietnam War in Hampstead
Actors Robert Lindsay and Ron Cooke discuss their parts in How I Got That Story
Shona Spirit, Zimbabwean Sculpture
Zimbabwe sculptures, and sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, arrive in London
Celebrating the Arts of Wales
The painters and poets of Wales, and the thrilling sounds of the Royal National Eisteddfod
Jonathan Miller's two Othellos
Director Jonathan Miller's two Othellos – Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera
Brazilian Hero's Quest comes to the London Stage
Brazilian epic is brought to life in London, and Mozart's "lost" symphony is rediscovered
The Dance Theatre of Harlem energises the Royal Opera House
Director Arthur Mitchell's new repertoire makes the most of Covent Garden's large stage
Cecil B. DeMille – a Director of Epic Proportions
Cecil B.DeMille, master of the silver-screen epic, was born 100 years ago
Love and Death – on Stage and Page
Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week
A Bequest of Old Masters on Show
The Old Masters left to the nation by a Count are now on show at the Courtauld Institute
There's Much Ado before the Happy Ending
The new production of Much Ado doesn't ignore the play's darker undertones
Edinburgh Festival Special
Bach's St Matthew's Passion, Jean Racine's Britannicus, and jazz legend Oscar Peterson
Sean O'Casey's Gunman echoes down the years
The new resonance of Sean O' Casey's 1923 play The Shadow of a Gunman
Mistress of Dialogue and Satire: novelist Christina Stead
Time to reappraise novelist Christina Stead, a writer capable of "devastating satire"
Highlights of Edinburgh Festival's Fringe
Some of the nearly 500 shows making up the Fringe at the Edinburgh International Festival
How Children of a Lesser God became a landmark for the Deaf
Playwright Mark Medoff on writing Children of a Lesser God for a deaf friend
John Huston directs Under the Volcano at last
Will the film Under the Volcano enjoy the same following as Malcolm Lowry's cult novel?
Reviving P. G. Wodehouse, the playwright
Bertie Wooster's creator also wrote plays and one is revived by the Bristol Old Vic
The Price of political Protest in Schneider's November
Rolf Schneider's heroine's life is not the same after she protests, in his novel November
Satire on stage and page in Edinburgh
A new production of The Beggar's Opera and prints and paintings by Honoré Daumier
Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona make a Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
Chronicle of a Showbusiness Dynasty
How the Winogradsky brothers became the Grades and transformed showbusiness
On the moral High Ground at the Venice Film Festival
Films with a high moral tone were in favour at the Venice Film Festival this year
What does it mean to be Good?
What it means to be "good" is the subject of C. P. Taylor's new play set in Nazi Germany
Falstaff on the Fringe
David Buck as Falstaff, Loose Ends by Michael Weller, and In Dreams by Adam Williams
From El Greco to Goya
Heaven's Gate directed by Michael Cimino and Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones
Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle
Interview with Tom Stoppard about his play On the Razzle
John Cage – For the Birds
For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles
Gwen John, an Artist Alone
Welsh artist Gwen John, Oblomov by Nikita Mikhalk and Murray Perahia's Bela Bartok
Samson and Delilah – the opera
Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens and Tibetan Inroads by Stephen Lowe