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...Dates to be announced; further information here November Performance ‘A Christmas Carol’, Old Vic Matthew Warchus’ production of Dickens’ classic returns for a festive run....
...Lionel Shriver Novelist English Passengers by Matthew Kneale....
...“It’s like something out of Tron,” says the show’s director, Christopher Turner....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...(USA Today) Soundbites “This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud. He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U....
...Ted Turner Ted Turner was a disrupter long before the term became a buzzword for entrepreneurs, writes Ravi Mattu....
...to Nielsen only behind the USA v Portugal game, which 24.7m watched on a Sunday....
...Mooted deals between AT&T and Direct TV and between Sprint and T-Mobile USA could also reshape media distribution, leaving content companies in a weaker position....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Matthew Turner, precious metals strategist at Mitsubishi, the Japanese trading house, said: “Global interest rate rises are now imaginable and that has taken some of the gloss off this continual cheap money...
...Apocalyptic lyrics about a “crucified USA” won’t win friends on American rock radio....
...The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest By Stieg LarssonTranslated by Reg Keeland MacLehose Press, £18.99 The final instalment in Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy”, this bestselling page-turner featuring feisty...
...Matthew Williamson wanted to retain “a very traditional element” with his 1,000 pink velvet and chiffon roses the following year....
...Matthew Engel is an FT columnist....
...Matthew Engel is an FT columnist. The 144th edition of ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack’ will be published on March 28 (John Wisden and Co, £40)...
...Old Master shows, Holbein at Tate Britain and Leonardo at the V&A, are packing in tourists and residents alike....
...THE MODERN IDEAL: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism by Paul Greenhalgh V&A £35, 272 pages Hedgehog or fox?...
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