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‘A modern-day Greek tragedy’: the life and death of artist Thomas Kinkade

The American painter built a multimillion-dollar empire but a new documentary highlights the dark side of a complex artist

Thirteen years after his death from an overdose of alcohol and valium, the Am…

The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – how immigrants reshaped postwar Britain

Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s

In the early 1940s, the publisher Collins launched …

Rita review – sensitive portrait of domestic abuse seen through the eyes of a child

Set in 1980s Spain, actor Paz Vega’s subtly affecting directing debut shows a family suffering under an abusive father, but is warmed by optimism and compassion

Spanish actor Paz Vega makes her direct…

Irena’s Vow review – the extraordinary tale of a real-life Holocaust rescuer

A teenager hides 12 Jews in a basement under the nose of her Nazi boss in this tactful English-language drama

Here is an extraordinary true-life tale. For more than two years during the second world w…

Ambika Mod to play porn addict in ‘funny, unsettling and honest’ play at the Royal Court

The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatre

Ambika Mod is to star as an academic addicted to violent pornography in a new…

The play that changed my life: Eimear McBride on nine hours of Dostoevsky, seen three times

The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg’s wildly imaginative epic The Devils was so extraordinary it demanded another viewing – or two

The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg’s production of The Devil…

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