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Mistress of Dialogue and Satire: novelist Christina Stead
Time to reappraise novelist Christina Stead, a writer capable of "devastating satire"
Sean O'Casey's Gunman echoes down the years
The new resonance of Sean O' Casey's 1923 play The Shadow of a Gunman
Edinburgh Festival Special
Bach's St Matthew's Passion, Jean Racine's Britannicus, and jazz legend Oscar Peterson
There's Much Ado before the Happy Ending
The new production of Much Ado doesn't ignore the play's darker undertones
A Bequest of Old Masters on Show
The Old Masters left to the nation by a Count are now on show at the Courtauld Institute
Love and Death 鈥� on Stage and Page
Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week
Cecil B. DeMille 鈥� a Director of Epic Proportions
Cecil B.DeMille, master of the silver-screen epic, was born 100 years ago
The Dance Theatre of Harlem energises the Royal Opera House
Director Arthur Mitchell's new repertoire makes the most of Covent Garden's large stage
Jonathan Miller's two Othellos
Director Jonathan Miller's two Othellos 鈥� Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera
Brazilian Hero's Quest comes to the London Stage
Brazilian epic is brought to life in London, and Mozart's "lost" symphony is rediscovered
