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ALR is increasingly being hired by major fairs to ensure that everything on sale is checked
Juliet Gilkes Romero favours parliamentary procedural while slaves look on in silence at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Taiwanese art world is finally challenging its regional rivals and is out to win
An enjoyable swipe at the establishment that combines the author’s use of thriller-ish plots with flinty prose
If displaying objects shortens their life, do we have an obligation to future generations to display copies instead?
Music, visuals and computer code are being blended to create an entrancing experience
Used to thinking in 3D, choreographers are now experimenting with virtual reality to dazzling effect
Musician Holly Herndon taught an electronic ‘collaborator’ to sing using the call-and-response hymns of her childhood
The technology can enhance what is in front of our eyes. Now artists are exploring its potential
This haunting, enigmatic novel is charged with wistful possibilities of what might have been
The musical based on Don Quixote comes to the West End for the first time in half a century
The 29-year-old talks about the challenge of updating Chekhov for the modern era
Following the hit ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’, Ellams prepares to open his new play ‘The Half God of Rainfall’
Mighty natural forces seem to be at play in the composer’s work
A new production explores the fertile terrain between VR, augmented reality and immersive drama. But will this kind of storytelling ever truly take off?
How video games became a subject for design museums. And why they can also provide real-life solutions
A new memoir, ‘The Unpunished Vice’, is a celebration of reading — and proves an education in itself
This summer experimental and established groups are innovating with pop-up programmes and unusual venues
The Norwegian writer on being compared with Knausgaard and capturing the mystery of life
The second novel from the author of ‘Beasts of No Nation’ is a lucid story of identity
Andrew Dickson sets out to rescue a great Shakespearean actor who ‘seemed to have been airbrushed from history’
This homage to the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa is impressive but hard to love
The company has been making experimental drama and baffling audiences since the 1960s — and has no plans to play it straight now
The experience of indigenous Australians is addressed in a tale of identity, escape and an epic car race in the outback
Lear is recast as a sclerotic, ailing media magnate, medicated by his malevolent daughters
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