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Dealer’s Choice review: ‘male inadequacies laid bare’

Set around a poker table, this play anchors on a painful father-son relationship and shows that the stake are always higher than the amount of cash on the table

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Deal or no deal: Brendan Coyle and Kasper Hilton-Hille in Dealer's Choice

Film review, Sinners: ‘Magical’

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Theatre review: Ghosts ‘Today’s moral landscape imposes itself on Ibsen’s play’

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Paul Jacob French (centre) as Joe Buck & cast in Midnight Cowboy- A New Musical, Credit Pamela Raith

Midnight Cowboy review: ‘not cut out for the stage’

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The Penguin Lessons: ‘Steve Coogan p-p-picks one up’

Steve Coogan’s English teacher takes up a position at a boarding school in Buenos Aries in the 1970s, where a military coup and a penguin upend his life

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April 16, 2025 17:50

Birds of a feather: Steve Coogan and his co-star penguin

‘The Holocaust documentary my father made with Alfred Hitchcock’

The daughter of socialist media mogul Sidney Bernstein who made a historic film about Bergen-Belsen with the help of Hitchcock reflects on their collaboration, the subject of a new BBC radio play out tomorrow

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April 11, 2025 18:30

Alfred Hitchcock (left) and Sidney Bernstein

What They Found review: Sam Mendes presents the proof of Bergen-Belsen

The intention to counter Holocaust denial is achieved in the director’s first documentary

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April 9, 2025 14:19

An Imperial War Museum archive still used in the film

Rhinoceros review: ‘don’t follow the herd’

The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede ahead

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April 9, 2025 09:55