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Eastward Ho! Towards a new London?

The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline

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Amadeus re-conquers the London stage

Peter Schaffer's Amadeus has not only been around the world but to Broadway – and back

• 28 mins

Here and There – Photographs from UK and California

Cool documentary-style photos hang next to wild experimental colour

• 28 mins

The Gospel of St Mark, according to Alec McCowen

Alec McCowen turns a two-hour Bible reading into a gripping one-man show

• 28 mins

English concert at Leeds Castle – in Kent

Handel sonatas in historic buildings by English Heritage

• 29 mins

The revolutionary Georg Buchner on the French Revolution

Howard Brenton on the life and work of Georg Buchner

• 28 mins

The Young Romantics

A special edition on the Romantics Festival on London's South Bank

• 28 mins

Restoration by Edward Bond – did the Butler do it?

Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play

• 30 mins

The Vietnam War in Hampstead

Actors Robert Lindsay and Ron Cooke discuss their parts in How I Got That Story

• 28 mins

Shona Spirit, Zimbabwean Sculpture

Zimbabwe sculptures, and sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, arrive in London

• 28 mins

Celebrating the Arts of Wales

The painters and poets of Wales, and the thrilling sounds of the Royal National Eisteddfod

• 28 mins

Jonathan Miller's two Othellos

Director Jonathan Miller's two Othellos – Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera

• 28 mins

Brazilian Hero's Quest comes to the London Stage

Brazilian epic is brought to life in London, and Mozart's "lost" symphony is rediscovered

• 28 mins

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

• 28 mins

Cecil B. DeMille – a Director of Epic Proportions

Cecil B.DeMille, master of the silver-screen epic, was born 100 years ago

• 29 mins

Love and Death – on Stage and Page

Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week

• 28 mins

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

• 28 mins

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

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Sean O'Casey's Gunman echoes down the years

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

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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

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John Huston directs Under the Volcano at last

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

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Reviving P. G. Wodehouse, the playwright

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

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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

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Satire on stage and page in Edinburgh

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

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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