'Frozen' has been running on Broadway for a year and received three Tony award nominations

Artists had asked gallery not to accept sum from family behind firm making opioid OxyContin The National Portrait Gallery has turned down a £1m grant from the multibillionaire Sackler family after an

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Tom Hanks' sheriff and Bo Peep hit the road in what looks like the franchise's final chapter

Does Kurt Vonnegut expect us to believe his crazy story? This novel may be funny, but it’s still deadly serious “After Trout became famous,” wrote Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast Of Champions, “of course, one of the biggest mysteries about him was whether he was kidding or not.” Kilgore Trout is a recurring character in Vonnegut’s books and the author of many science-fiction novels. Breakfast of Champions is the first book Vonnegut (the author of many science-fiction novels) wrote after

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A film exec said the movie has 'the best screenplay that I have had the privilege to read'

Perfect for anyone with a low attention span, David Fincher’s pic’n’mix show is short, satisfyingly wicked and self-consciously NSFW If being online constantly has hacked away at our attention spans, commissioning the future-shock pic’n’mix Love Death & Robots seems like a smart move by Netflix. This is prestige TV in convenient pill form: a sprawling anthology of 18 animated shorts that run at an average of just 12 minutes, lashed together by a prominent David Fincher producing credit. After Se7en, Fight Club and even Netflix’s own compromised

Report emerges as part of a wider investigation into the UK's live music scene

The star plays a hit-packed, 31-song setlist in New York.

The fire brigade slammed the use of 'stereotypical gender-specific wording' in children's shows

The Stone Table hailed as a ‘seamless recreation’ of CS Lewis’s style, but this addition to the acclaimed series of children’s books may never be published Francis Spufford has taken a break from writing award-winning adult literature to fill in the details of what exactly went on in Narnia before The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. But he isn’t expecting his novel, set in CS Lewis’s magical world, to be published any time soon. Spufford, who has been writing for the past three and a half years without the permission of the Lewis estate, began Narnia story The Stone Table on a family holiday to entertain his daughter Theodora. After he had published books including

'I'm about to embark on one of my most epic adventures, and this time you're in charge'

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Heavy metal legends are also preparing for a UK stadium tour in June

The Oscar-nominated actor joins Naomi Watts, Josh Whitehouse and Naomi Ackie

'Using out of date stereotypical gender-specific wording prevents young girls from becoming firefighters'

The Oscar-nominated actor joins Naomi Watts, Josh Whitehouse and Naomi Ackie

Michel Gondry's surreal delight challenges us to question why we allow ourselves to be so ruled by our emotional scars, Clarisse Loughrey writes

Company has demonstrated 'disdain for not only the legislative process, but its customers'

'He has a particularly bad record with Muslims'

‘We used my flat’s rank toilet on the record sleeve with my guitar shoved into it – though I put a plastic bag over it first’ I had read about a dodgy landlord in the

Adam Grandmaison insists incident was not publicity stunt

'I am racking my mind to think of a funnier bit of Partridge/Steve Coogan over his eventful 28-year long career but can't'

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Booker winner Milkman and Normal People, which took the Costa novel award, among 20 contenders for the £30,000 prize The 2019 Rathbones Folio prize longlist spans the world, from a Booker-winning novel set amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland to a life of St Francis of Assisi told in verse.

A film exec said the movie has 'the best screenplay that I have had the privilege to read'

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Creator says seven-metre high Messenger is important counterpoint to the many statues of men across UK Even before Messenger, a giant bronze sculpture depicting a female actor, had been craned into place outside the Theatre Royal Plymouth, it was attracting a mixture of praise, anger and ribaldry. Some agreed with those who had commissioned the seven-metre-high, 9.5-tonne piece that it was an exciting and bold statement about the creative life of the Devon city.

The tiger shark population has declined by three quarters since the launch of the Shark Control Program

In 1873, the Fisk Jubilee Singers embarked on a gruelling international tour that changed the course of history. Their remarkable story is told in a new oratorio In 1873, a choir of African American students – all but two of them former slaves – set off for London on a fund-raising tour. Recommended by Mark Twain, who wrote “I would walk seven miles to hear them sing again ... they reproduce the true melody of the plantations”, the Fisk Jubilee Singers went on to give concerts across Europe and beyond, thereby introducing spirituals to the world. In England, the prime minister William Gladstone invited them for a private breakfast. Queen Victoria put in a special request for them to sing Steal Away, and it has become part of Nashville folklore that it was the Queen’s delighted praise that gave the choir’s Tennessee hometown the soubriquet Music City.

'I will never, ever get out of shape because that movie's going to happen one day,' says Crews

From architecture to drug policy, nightlife quietly incubates ideas that then flourish in the mainstream. But, with brands moving in, club-cultural innovation is under threat In the popular imagination,

Momo is just another moral panic, and parents are falling for it once again. But, says David Barnett, the kids will probably be all right

An antidote to self-serious antihero dramas, this zippy saga about filthy-rich white guys offers up some of the most thoughtful trash around Billions, the labyrinthine drama about a shady hedge-fund investor and the shady district attorney on his tail, is by far and away the smartest dumb show on TV. On the one hand it’s by-the-book Prestige Television, a glossy study of self-destructive antiheroes, moral grey areas and the soul-blackening effects of power. On the other, it offers everything the golden-era box sets didn’t. Billions has no time for the slow-burn and never skimps on surface-level fun, be it the whip-wielding sex workers or chic celebrity cameos. Factor in its exuberant refusal to take itself too seriously, and it’s a show that above all else will keep you entertained. Or to put it another way: the exact opposite of Mad Men. With its fourth season starting this month and as pulpily addictive as ever, it’s fair to say the writers have pulled off a neat trick. In the post-recession world, drawing breezy entertainment from a story about crooked and decadent financiers is no easy task. On top of that, the male ego is no longer the small-screen goldmine it once was. While a decade or two ago, the wounded psyches of Tony Soprano and co had us making a beeline for the water cooler, audiences have now become wise to privilege, and there’s no escaping the fact that Billions is a show about two filthy-rich white guys and their very expensive game of one-upmanship.

Created by local artist John Bulley, the mural is situated on Southend High Street

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Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

Bridges are often defining urban features – but what if your city had chosen one of these designs instead?

Ballet and film complement each other perfectly in a biopic of the superstar dancer that captures life under Castro’s rule Dance on film can have many functions. It might act as a showstopping decoration to the drama (most movie musicals), a shorthand for its protagonist’s obsession or madness (Black Swan, The Red Shoes) or a blunt tool for illustrating cultural difference (Step Up, Save the Last Dance and every other ballet-girl-meets-hip-hop-boy movie). But, aside from Jerome Robbins’ masterpiece

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Five Feet Apart is the latest film about doomed young heartthrobs – a trope rife in popular culture since Romeo and Juliet Teenage terminal illness: it’s so romantic, isn’t it? Apart from the dying bit. And the physical deterioration, the pain, and the medical intervention that often precedes it. But as a movie genre, it ticks so many boxes: despair, alienation, suffering, seize-the-day recklessness, inbuilt tragedy. Basically all the things teenagers experience already, minus an easy excuse to dismiss them. No wonder dying-teen movies seem to be going, er, viral right now. Next up is Five Feet Apart, whose attractive leads, Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, both have cystic fibrosis – a genetic condition that leads to buildup of fluid in the lungs. More than half of sufferers die before they reach 28 years old. To prevent cross-infection, people with CF must not come within six feet of each other, hence the title: when these two fall in love, they decide to steal back a foot’s worth of intimacy.

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Dale is credited with pioneering the surf music style, by drawing on his Middle-Eastern heritage and experimenting with reverberation

Owen Matthews’s rip-roaring account of the life of Richard Sorge is great fun, but shows how badly Stalin let him down This is a golden age for spy biographies. Almost every month there is another fascinating portrait of an agent who fought or supported one of the great totalitarian philosophies of the 20th century. I think it is fair to say, though, that no matter how many of those stories get told, none will be as absolutely belief-beggaring as that of Richard Sorge. Born in Baku, of Russian-German parentage, he grew up in Wilhelmine Germany, and served in the first world war. Injured on the eastern front, he grew progressively radicalised by the misery all around him, and became a communist. His is a story with uncanny parallels to Kim Philby, except he took the struggle to the streets for a while, even working as a miner in the Ruhr in an attempt to take the party’s message to the workers, before discovering his natural vocation as a spy.

Dale is credited with pioneering the surf music style, by drawing on his Middle-Eastern heritage and experimenting with reverberation

The director announced the news on Instagram, adding that the film will 'finally answer the immortal question: How high?'

Musician seemed irritated by the question

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Cocktail parties, cartoon characters and firework shows: burial mounds are back in Britain – are they the future of death? Behind a hedge in the middle of a field in Shropshire, there is a grassy mound that looks like an overgrown spoil heap. It would be an unremarkable feature in this ancient agricultural landscape, were it not for the fact that it has a little stone doorway in its side. Step through and you find yourself in an atmospheric domed chamber where round stone pillars frame rows of candlelit niches. All that’s missing is Gandalf sitting in the corner, preparing his next spell. More than 5,000 years after our neolithic ancestors built great burial barrows (or mounds) across the land, a Shropshire farmer is reviving the tradition – and he’d rather you didn’t mention druids. “People like to pump mysticism into this stuff,” says Tim Ashton, standing in wellies and a tweed coat outside his new barrow. “But the people who built Stonehenge and the first barrows weren’t a bunch of wishy-washy people in white robes. They were practical farmers like me.”

The decade’s greatest US film never to have been seen in UK cinemas has been released without fanfare on BFI Player Away from the Netflix publicity machine, online-only film releases are rarely advertised or visibly scheduled in the same way cinema releases or even DVDs are. Some of the best ones come my way by word of mouth, or entirely by chance. So it was only from a friend’s tip last week that I learned that a title whose UK release I’ve been waiting years for has recently, quietly slipped into the streaming realm –

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Dale is credited with pioneering the surf music style, by drawing on his Middle-Eastern heritage and experimenting with reverberation

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Sharp prose and visual artwork combine in these seductive modern ghost storiesIn the lexicon of reviewer-speak, entries don’t come more hackneyed than “haunting”. The urge to reach for it should be a critic’s cue to do more thinking, and yet in the case of

The fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal is frustratingly underexplored in Alex Gibney’s disappointing new film There’s a commonly held belief that the US is a place where a person of humble means can make their way to the highest echelons of power through sheer grit. This myth remains stable, despite being repeatedly punctured by events like the Fyre Festival, Trump’s presidency and this week’s college admission scandal. In Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, it receives another dent thanks to the incredible story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal. It’s the story of a woman who managed to procure millions for a blood testing machine that didn’t exist, a classic tale of connections mattering more than cognition. It inspired an award-winning book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou and is set to inspire a splashy Oscar-aiming biopic starring Jennifer Lawrence.