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A host of fantastic films, awesome new albums and spectacular stage performances - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of film, music and theatre.

Awesome new albums, great gigs, spectacular stage performances, a host of fantastic films and cracking comedy shows - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of music, theatre and film.

A host of fantastic films, great gigs, awesome new albums and spectacular stage performances - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of film, music and theatre.

The Divine Mrs S is a backstage satire set in the year 1800, when flouncy costumes and elaborate English prose were common cultural ornaments. On press night the venue was full of resting actors and theatrical hangers-on who adored the show’s in-jokes and rehearsal-room wisecracks. Titus Andronicus is ‘an experimental play about a pie’, says

A dislikable version of Charlotte, jockeying for prominence and yearning to be as immortal as Byron, is the surprising focus of this quick-witted drama

The play is entertaining, informative and, going by some of the conversations I heard as I was leaving, definitely starts a discussion that can go on long into the night.