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The Manningtree Witches review – Ava Beckett’s engaging follow-up to Tudor hit 1536 | stage

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Fiction,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I“It doesn't matter what's true,” a teenager tells us after giving testimony about witchcraft against a group of women including her mother. What matters, she says, is “what is written.” It's advice passed down to Rebecca (Lucy Mangan) from her indomitable mother, Anne (Gina Isaacs), in this play by Ava Beckett from A. K. Blackmore's award-winning 2021 novel. What's been written about in the true case of the Manningtree witch trials of 1645 is minimal when it comes to the Essex women…

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Even in these depressing times, Love Is Blind is a very depressing TV show | Reality TV

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Reality TV,Netflix,Television,Television & radio,Culture,US television 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn this corrupt year, 2026, there is no shortage of things to frustrate us: domestic terrorism by federal agents, war, the dominance of artificial intelligence, and Super Bowl sports betting ads. The Epstein Files. FIFA Peace Prize. Six more weeks of winter. The need for escape, catharsis, or both is more urgent than ever. However, what frustrated me most, in the low-stakes “I can actually wrap my head around this” way, was the pinnacle of escapist entertainment: the…

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From Mulder and Scully to Marge and Homer: Your Favorite TV Couples | television

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Drama,The X-Files,Fleabag,The Simpsons,Star Trek,Gavin & Stacey,Heated Rivalry,Animation on TV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Miss Piggy and Kermit -Puppet showThe sign of true romance is that a couple is closer than anyone else in the world. As Emily Brontë said: “Whatever our souls are, they are our souls and souls.” This applies to Miss Piggy and Kermit. Their relationship has been longer than most TV couples (since 1976), although it has been turbulent. No matter the universe, from Dickens' London to Treasure Island to their various…

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Paddington and Into the Woods compete for 11 Olivier Awards each | Olivier Awards

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Olivier awards,Stage,Theatre,Culture,Awards and prizes,West End,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Bond's jam-loving teddy bear will face off against a host of fictional characters at next month's Olivier Awards, with two musicals dominating the nominations announced on Thursday.The front-runners for London's biggest theater awards are Paddington: The Musical and Into the Woods, which each received 11 nominations. Paddington, which opened to five-star reviews at the Savoy Theater, is nominated for Best New Musical, Best Director (Luke Sheppard), Best Theater Choreographer (Ellen Keane) and Best Actor in a…

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Black Ballet in 25 Reviews – A dazzling double bill brings resistance and hope | Dance

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Ballet Black,Ballet,Culture,Stage,Royal Opera House ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's been 25 years since the indomitable Ballet Black company was founded, and to mark the occasion they're treating us to a very good double bill. The company generally commissions works from outside choreographers, but here it blows its own trumpet by bringing to life a great score by one of their own – Ingoma (2019) by Mthuthuzile November, who has since continued to work on an international scale.It doesn't take long to figure out why this piece…

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Squeeze: Trixies Review – Finally Completed Debut Album Proves Teenage Dreams Are Hard to Overcome | pressure

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Squeeze,Pop and rock,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn interviews to promote their 16th studio album, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have been frank about the reason for its existence. After the world mocked The Knowledge conference in 2017, someone told Tilbrook: “No one is interested in Squeeze’s record. What matters is Squeeze’s story.” “That stayed with me,” he says.So not only does Trixies have a story – it's a concept and musical album about a fictional nightclub – but there's also a great story around the album.…

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Bright and beautiful? The man who causes millennium euphoria with his school chant | music

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Christianity,Religion,Society,Life and style ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HHe has the entire Warwick Arts Center in his hands. It's Friday night and the 550-capacity hall is sold out. The stage is full of adults singing school council hymns you may remember from childhood. They soar and sparkle, making delightful hand movements to the wiggle worms and fish in the sea. Just what's going on?Originally a viral video, James B Partridge's Primary School Bangers is the hit show that has taken UK arts centres by storm. “It…

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Pokémon Pokopia Review – Collectible Creatures Creating Their Perfect World | games

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Pokémon,Nintendo,Nintendo Switch 2,Role playing games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: forListen with me here: Pokémon has always had an environmental subtext. As you wander through its lush, creature-filled worlds, collecting species like David Attenborough, you're constantly shown that people and Pokémon should live in harmony. The villains in these stories, from Team Rocket to Bill Nighy in Detective Pikachu, are always the ones who want to exploit these creatures for personal gain. Otherwise it will show you that people should respect Pokemon; Both the creatures you hunt and…

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Stylish costume design, bio-horror, and the complete Mike Leigh Film Collection: The Best Films of Lesley Manville – Ranked! | film

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Lesley Manville,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 10. Queer (2024)Like an orc... Manville in Queer. Photo: Yannis DrakulidisAmong the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino's frenetic adaptation of William S Burroughs's novel is a late-20th-century pop and alternative soundtrack (Nirvana, Prince, New Order) for a 1950s story, and the casting of the unrecognizable, orc-like Manville in a fabricated cameo role as the shaman Dr. Cooter, who was male in the original book.9. Ms. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)In a vision of the French capital that makes Amelie look like…

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The mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros still has some hurdles to overcome | Paramount Pictures

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Paramount Pictures,Warner Bros,Media,Mergers and acquisitions,Business,US news,UK news,World news,US television industry,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Champagne was reportedly flowing at Paramount Skydance headquarters late last week after the media conglomerate beat out Netflix to acquire all of Warner Bros Discovery for $110 billion.In a call with analysts and investors Monday morning, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said the company was “very confident” that the merger would quickly pass regulatory muster both in the U.S. and abroad.“We have dealt with regulatory agencies around the world and this combination has…

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