To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Quizzical triumph
James Graham's play about the man who cheated on Who Wants to be a Millionaire is a sure-fire hit, says MARY CONWAY
Gavin Spokes as Charles Ingram (left) and Keir Charles as Chris Tarrant in Quiz at Chichester Festival Theatre
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Quiz
Noel Coward Theatre, London
WITH four West End hits in just over a year, James Graham is now incontrovertibly our most prolific crowd-pleaser.
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