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‘I wanted to give people hope’: how Every Brilliant Thing became theatre’s best antidote to depression | Edinburgh festival 2024

An uplifting play about depression, Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing has become a global phenomenon since its Edinburgh fringe debut 10 years ago....

Why the funniest jokes at the Edinburgh fringe just didn’t make me laugh | Zoe Williams

Delayed in transit with Mr Z, I was looking for a way to fill precisely one minute. I’d scoped out my responsibility in...

TV tonight: a powerful political series about the worst global atrocities | Television

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?10pm, BBC Four “The images of that haunt us all,” said Bill Clinton, then the US...

‘Peter Gabriel’s cover of The Book of Love bought me a house’: the Magnetic Fields on 69 Love Songs | Music

Stephin Merritt, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalistI initially conceived the album as a poster, to get myself out of obscurity: I pictured glitzy gold-leaf calligraphy...

We Might Regret This review – wonderful, witty TV that is totally liberating to watch | Television & radio

Sitting on a toilet, frowning, Freya (Kyla Harris), a thirtysomething artist and wheelchair user, is having trouble with her bowels. Donning a blue...

Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable | Architecture

On a summer morning in the Swiss city of Basel, groups of commuters bob merrily down the Rhine. They’re not on boats but...

The factional anthem: why dictators, leaders and protesters have fought over Beethoven’s Ninth | Proms 2024

There was nothing unusual – the world being as it is – in the fact that Hulk Hogan was one of more erudite...

‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough | Stage

It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. Dedicated to new plays, the...

Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple review – Dench and Blades’ real-life friendship fills you with wonder | Television

We must just bow our heads and accept it. Some commissions are unavoidable, and Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple is one...

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