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There's Much Ado before the Happy Ending

The new production of Much Ado doesn't ignore the play's darker undertones

• 28 mins

Edinburgh Festival Special

Bach's St Matthew's Passion, Jean Racine's Britannicus, and jazz legend Oscar Peterson

• 28 mins

Sean O'Casey's Gunman echoes down the years

The new resonance of Sean O' Casey's 1923 play The Shadow of a Gunman

• 28 mins

Mistress of Dialogue and Satire: novelist Christina Stead

Time to reappraise novelist Christina Stead, a writer capable of "devastating satire"

• 28 mins

Highlights of Edinburgh Festival's Fringe

Some of the nearly 500 shows making up the Fringe at the Edinburgh International Festival

• 29 mins

How Children of a Lesser God became a landmark for the Deaf

Playwright Mark Medoff on writing Children of a Lesser God for a deaf friend

• 28 mins

John Huston directs Under the Volcano at last

Will the film Under the Volcano enjoy the same following as Malcolm Lowry's cult novel?

• 28 mins

Reviving P. G. Wodehouse, the playwright

Bertie Wooster's creator also wrote plays and one is revived by the Bristol Old Vic

• 28 mins

The Price of political Protest in Schneider's November

Rolf Schneider's heroine's life is not the same after she protests, in his novel November

• 28 mins

Satire on stage and page in Edinburgh

A new production of The Beggar's Opera and prints and paintings by Honoré Daumier

• 28 mins

Shakespeare double bill at Stratford

Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona make a Shakespeare double bill at Stratford

• 28 mins

Chronicle of a Showbusiness Dynasty

How the Winogradsky brothers became the Grades and transformed showbusiness

• 28 mins

On the moral High Ground at the Venice Film Festival

Films with a high moral tone were in favour at the Venice Film Festival this year

• 29 mins

What does it mean to be Good?

What it means to be "good" is the subject of C. P. Taylor's new play set in Nazi Germany

• 29 mins

Falstaff on the Fringe

David Buck as Falstaff, Loose Ends by Michael Weller, and In Dreams by Adam Williams

• 28 mins

From El Greco to Goya

Heaven's Gate directed by Michael Cimino and Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones

• 29 mins

Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle

Interview with Tom Stoppard about his play On the Razzle

• 28 mins

John Cage – For the Birds

For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles

• 28 mins

Gwen John, an Artist Alone

Welsh artist Gwen John, Oblomov by Nikita Mikhalk and Murray Perahia's Bela Bartok

• 28 mins

Samson and Delilah – the opera

Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens and Tibetan Inroads by Stephen Lowe

• 28 mins

The Sound of a Serpent

Sounds of early instruments, plus an interview with JP Donleavy

• 29 mins

Sculpture you can touch

Sculpture for the Blind at the Tate Gallery, London, plus Cartiass by Arnold Wesker

• 29 mins

Roll on Four O'Clock

Colin Welland's play Roll on Four O' Clock is reviewed by Benedict Nightingale

• 28 mins

The Art of Kurt Schwitters

Report on an exhibition of the revolutionary German artist's work

• 28 mins

Martin Sherman's Cracks

Michael Coveney reviews two plays: Martin Sherman's Cracks and Ellen Dryden's Harvest

• 28 mins

Rushdie Wins Booker Prize

Midnight's Children wins the Booker Prize and its author Salman Rushdie is interviewed

• 28 mins

Shared Experience and The Seagull

Shared Experience's The Seagull by Chekhov is reviewed by Robert Cushman

• 28 mins

The Whitbread Awards

Maurice Leitch's Silver City and Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land are both Whitebread winners

• 28 mins

Japanese Cultural Festival in London

Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy

• 29 mins

Kipling's India

Kipling's India, Juan Martin, AN Wilson, and the paintings of Patrick Caulfield

• 28 mins