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From exhilarating Oliver! to a mardy Beast in the east – three of the best Christmas family shows Oliver!, Lionel Bart's adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1838 novel, has been a stage favourite since its first appearance in 1960. It's incredible to think that Bart was only 30 when he wrote the lyrics, music and book. Though maybe not, given the ...
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Eight things we learned from Shirley Ballas's Desert Island Discs Shirley Ballas, the head judge on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, discovered ballroom dancing at the age of seven, coming across a class at her local church hall. It quickly became her life, and by the age of 24 she was ranked world number one.
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Benjamin Zephaniah: 'Very bubbly poet pushed me on' Mr Emmanuel, 29, from Birmingham, who is also a writer and musician, told Newsbeat watching him "captivate the room, it really did push me on to do what I'm doing today".
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From a deep dive into Chinese cuisine to a celebration of cakes: Observer Food Monthly's books of 2023 By Helen Rebanks (Faber, £20). Rebanks is the granddaughter of a baker and when her husband, the celebrity shepherd James Rebanks, was studying at Oxford, she worked in a cafe whose fortunes she perked up by introducing wonderful homemade cakes (her ...
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The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review The American playwright Annie Baker is not the first person to suggest that pain is another country, something you can be "in": for once, an invocation of Virginia Woolf in a theatre programme is justified.
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Tate McRae: Think Later review – the TikTok star eyes the mainstream Things have started well; excellent lead single Greedy, which channels mid-00s Timbaland, is already a global smash, while songs such as Exes and the rib-rattling title track continue down Greedy's pop-R&B route, a melodic pocket that suits McRae's rapid- ...
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Foo Fighters and the unstoppable Dave Grohl dial it up to 11 Foo Fighters Accor Stadium December 9, 2023. Reviewed by KATE HENNESSY. After decades of stadium shows, you'd think Foo Fighters would ration the rock'n'roll tropes to a slow drip through their notoriously long shows.
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