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Artists in Norwich weave modern narratives using an ancient art
Heroics or melodrama? Terry Hands' RSC production of Troilus and Cressida reviewed
The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline
Peter Schaffer's Amadeus has not only been around the world but to Broadway – and back
Cool documentary-style photos hang next to wild experimental colour
Alec McCowen turns a two-hour Bible reading into a gripping one-man show
Handel sonatas in historic buildings by English Heritage
Howard Brenton on the life and work of Georg Buchner
A special edition on the Romantics Festival on London's South Bank
Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play
Actors Robert Lindsay and Ron Cooke discuss their parts in How I Got That Story
Zimbabwe sculptures, and sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, arrive in London
The painters and poets of Wales, and the thrilling sounds of the Royal National Eisteddfod
Director Jonathan Miller's two Othellos – Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera
Brazilian epic is brought to life in London, and Mozart's "lost" symphony is rediscovered
Director Arthur Mitchell's new repertoire makes the most of Covent Garden's large stage
Cecil B.DeMille, master of the silver-screen epic, was born 100 years ago
Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week
The Old Masters left to the nation by a Count are now on show at the Courtauld Institute
The new production of Much Ado doesn't ignore the play's darker undertones
Bach's St Matthew's Passion, Jean Racine's Britannicus, and jazz legend Oscar Peterson
The new resonance of Sean O' Casey's 1923 play The Shadow of a Gunman
Time to reappraise novelist Christina Stead, a writer capable of "devastating satire"
Some of the nearly 500 shows making up the Fringe at the Edinburgh International Festival
Playwright Mark Medoff on writing Children of a Lesser God for a deaf friend
Will the film Under the Volcano enjoy the same following as Malcolm Lowry's cult novel?
Bertie Wooster's creator also wrote plays and one is revived by the Bristol Old Vic
Rolf Schneider's heroine's life is not the same after she protests, in his novel November
A new production of The Beggar's Opera and prints and paintings by HonorΓ© Daumier
Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona make a Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
