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Album: Aitch - Close to Home
Manchester's great white hope on charming form as he grapples with meteoric success
tv

Nicola Walker and Sean Bean triumph as a couple in a marital minefield

Can new series recapture the show's former glories?

Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll make an urbane crime-solving duo
film

Buster Keaton's intermittently entertaining feature debut, with enticing extras

Concocted romance gives the Eiffel Tower shaky but lavishly entertaining foundations

Jordan Peele fails to reach his own extremely high bar, with this so-so genre mashup
new music

Manchester's great white hope on charming form as he grapples with meteoric success

Electro-pop perennials latest is slick but contains delicious songwriting

Give him the cup: Loudon Wainwright marks his 75th year with his 26th studio album
classical

The RPO is sounding good after Vasily Petrenko's first season as Music Director
Turnage and Vaughan Williams scintillate, but the soul of Elgar remains out of reach

Chapter and verse on a fascinating project, already much acclaimed here
opera

Malin Byström offers presence and power as Strauss and Wilde's sex-crazed princess

Visual and aural beauty, strong performances, in a stunning double-bill from Laurent Pelly

Total triumph for replacement water-nymph Elin Pritchard
theatre

A jury of young people hold their elders to account for climate change

Leave memories of Paul Daniels at the door and embrace the sweet deception inside

James Thierrée joyfully collides together dance, mime, acrobatics, music and more - but what does it all mean?
dance

Completion of the city’s big Dante project with 'Paradiso' is only one of three wonders

At last, the pan-African production of Bausch's landmark choreography arrives on the London stage

An explosive restaging of the original dance drama
comedy

Searching for a friend, Gen Z laid bare, and teaching teachers

Divorce the nice way, Las Vegas showtime, and an hour of silliness

A puppet tells it like it is, an outbreak of silliness and political gags
Books

AI meets Penelope meets Ada Lovelace in this meditation on text, tissue and textile

Powerful poems of pilgrimage, loss and belonging along the Camino de Santiago

The ghosts gather as the miniaturist returns in Burton’s latest instalment
visual arts

The vibrant world of 1920s Central Europe, in sharp focus

Ecological dirty-realism plus mass-media overload in an idyllic Cornish setting

A slow reveal of the painter dubbed the American Matisse
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