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Arts around the world
Including a Thai dancer in New York, this year’s Wagner festival in Bayreuth and a series of large-scale art installations in Tokyo
Reviews
Anne Boleyn, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
Playwright Howard Brenton revisits religion, but shows he is concerned not with theology, but with churches as a political body against which individuals strive, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Shirley Valentine/Educating Rita, Trafalgar Studios, London
The pieces play off each other, making a great double bill, says Sarah Hemming
Mostly Mozart, Avery Fisher Hall, New York
Martin Bernheimer has a mostly wonderful evening
Pichet Klunchun, Lincoln Center, New York
Apollinaire Scherr samples dance-drama from the
Thai court
Kris Kristofferson, Cadogan Hall, London
Richard Clayton sees the
74-year-old play from the heart
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FEATURES
Strauss fever at the Munich Opera Festival
After a long dry period, the city welcomes a performance of a lesser-known opera by its ‘house composer’, says Andrew Clark
Stage spectacles at Womad
From Burundi drummers and African anthems to Britain’s unlikely display of massed ukuleles playing rock hits, the music festival was as ambitious as ever, writes David Honigmann
Creating chaos on stage
Mike Bartlett, author of ‘Earthquakes in London’, a new play on climate change, talks to Sarah Hemming about making a mess without actually losing the plot
Film
Film releases: July 30
Nigel Andrews reviews Joann Sfar’s ‘Gainsbourg’, Harald Zwart’s ‘The Karate Kid’, ‘The A-Team’, ‘Down Terrace’, and ‘South of the Border’
Visual Arts
Joan Mitchell show in Edinburgh
Jackie Wullschlager examines the abstract expressionist’s experience as an American in France and woman in a man’s movement
Architecture
Installations at the V&A
Each creation attempts to communicate with the surrounding works but also to express the power of intimate spaces, writes Edwin Heathcote
