Casting directors " the invisible force of stage and screen

They play a part not only in spotting new talent, but also in increasing diversity across the profession

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Jellyfish is funny, touching and vividly memorable

Margate is the setting for a film that constantly defies expectations

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Mektoub, My Love " Abdellatif Kechiche's ambitious film mingles plots and themes

The director's new movie features a star-making performance from Ophélie Bau

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Instant Family goes from sentimental to schmaltzy

Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne play the parents of adopted Hispanic children

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Mike Westbrook " Uncommon Orchestra at Ronnie Scott's " light, shade and anarchic roars

The 23-piece band spilled off the stage of the London venue and created varied yet coherent music

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'Roma' is channelling a changing political zeitgeist

Alfonso Cuarón's drama focuses on the ordinary Mexicans the new president has promised to represent

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An acting masterclass from Gillian Anderson in All About Eve

Anderson plays the star usurped by Lily James's Eve in Ivo van Hove's video-heavy production

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Lin-Manuel Miranda's co-produced musical Freestyle Love Supreme

The hip-hop group's on-the-hoof musical at New York's Greenwich House Theater was an entertaining if somewhat tame affair

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Gallim dance at the Joyce Theater, New York " Andrea Miller's new piece digs inward

The choreographer's To Create a World moves from the elemental to the emotional

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Classical capers with Yuja Wang and Igudesman & Yoo at Zankel Hall, New York

The pianist joined forces with the musical comedy duo for an evening of fun

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Alex Rüger named as new Royal Academy chief

German-born 51-year-old will move to London from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

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Don McCullin at Tate Britain " the push and pull of empathy and voyeurism

The photographer's images of suffering seem out of place in an art gallery but this is an exhibition that forces us to care passionately

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Spike Lee: 'It's not my job to be the culture police'

The director on being in the running for big awards 30 years after 'Do the Right Thing' was snubbed

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David Suchet is brilliant in Arthur Miller's The Price at Wyndham's Theatre

This 1968 story of family secrets and debts feels mightily resonant now

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Philip Glass's Akhnaten returns to the London Coliseum

Phelim McDermott's production of the opera is striking, though the music has overlong stretches of repetition

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Bram Stoker's Dracula goes back to its roots at the London Library

This spooky site-specific drama retells the story in the space where it was written

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Un ballo in maschera at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff " confused production, coherent music

Verdi's opera is played and sung more impressively than it is staged

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Karl V at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich is both lavish and dull

Carlus Padrissa's production of Krenek's opera is devoid of drama, though it has musical strengths

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Noh and Kyogen theatre, Philharmonie, Paris " leaning into the unknown

These authentically staged dramas were a fascinating insight into Japanese theatre for western audiences

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Podcasts " Conviction's portrait of the US justice system breathes new life into true crime

The new series from Gimlet Media, the network newly acquired by Spotify, follows a private investigator's quest to exonerate a young man from the Bronx

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Rockin' in the Free World " Neil Young's state of the union address still resonates today

The anthem was used by Donald Trump to launch his presidential campaign " much to Young's disgust

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Angelin Preljocaj's Gravité takes flight at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris

The choreographer's new work brings remarkable self-possession to its theme

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Albert Finney: actor, 1936-2019

Star of 'Tom Jones' and 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' shone and blazed when he chose

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Vinyl revival marks the tone of our times

Rumours of death exaggerated as old form returns from the dark side

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Lost in space with Peter Eotvos and the Philharmonia Orchestra

This Royal Festival Hall concert featured the composer's unusual new Multiversum

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