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Lindsay Anderson directs Hamlet on stage in London
Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"
Immersed in the Arts in Bath
Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival
Canada's Theatrical Soul on Show in Toronto
On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America
Time for Museums to Return their Treasures?
Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?
Robin Hood Rides Again
The aristocratic outlaw returns to Nottingham in a new, immersive production
The story of Russian Jews told through one Family
The suffering of Russian Jews under the Nazis shocked Russian readers of Heavy Sand
JG Ballard's New Vision of America
Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel
Swashbucklers: Defending Honour with Rapiers and Wit
The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour
British Theatre on a Winning Streak in New York
Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York
Finalists line up in The Comptition
Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest
Barnum – a Musical Life of the Great Showman
"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum
The enduring Appeal of Fairies and the Uncanny
Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales
Theater der Welt '81 in Cologne
International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81
Edward Bond's new view of two Worlds
Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.
The Shoemaker's Holiday and the spirit of London
Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker
For Your Eyes Only – Bond Returns
The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers
Mrinal Sen's And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen
David Hockney on 'the Pleasure of Looking'
David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery
Weaving as a very Contemporary Art
Artists in Norwich weave modern narratives using an ancient art
Time to reappraise Troilus and Cressida?
Heroics or melodrama? Terry Hands' RSC production of Troilus and Cressida reviewed
Eastward Ho! Towards a new London?
The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline
Amadeus re-conquers the London stage
Peter Schaffer's Amadeus has not only been around the world but to Broadway – and back
Here and There – Photographs from UK and California
Cool documentary-style photos hang next to wild experimental colour
The Gospel of St Mark, according to Alec McCowen
Alec McCowen turns a two-hour Bible reading into a gripping one-man show
English concert at Leeds Castle – in Kent
Handel sonatas in historic buildings by English Heritage
The revolutionary Georg Buchner on the French Revolution
Howard Brenton on the life and work of Georg Buchner
The Young Romantics
A special edition on the Romantics Festival on London's South Bank
Restoration by Edward Bond – did the Butler do it?
Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play
The Vietnam War in Hampstead
Actors Robert Lindsay and Ron Cooke discuss their parts in How I Got That Story
Shona Spirit, Zimbabwean Sculpture
Zimbabwe sculptures, and sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, arrive in London