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Theatre

The Play about the Baby (Almeida) Full Gallop (Hampstead) Stage games Sheridan Morley Lk ' e his great contemporary Arthur Miller, Edward Albee now does us the honour of giving......

Cinema

Saving Private Ryan (15, selected cinemas) Oddly pointless Mark Steyn W hen Saving Private Ryan was released in America, I made a mild obser- vation to the effect that its......

Music

Magic formula Peter Phillips M uch space has been devoted to the question of what distinguishes a great orchestra from a competent one. One argu- ment is that present-day......