The guide to what's worth seeing and reading

The guide to what's worth seeing and reading

Showing now
The Real Thing at the Old
Vic, London SE1 (0844-871 7609). A revival of Tom Stoppard's witty, moving drama about a playwright (Toby Stephens) who leaves his actress wife for another actress. Ends 5 June.
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Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn have reunited to pen a play based on their television series Yes, Prime Minister. David Haig is Prime Minister Jim Hacker, while Henry Goodman plays his Machiavellian cabinet secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby.


13 May-5 June, Festival Theatre, Chichester (01243-781312).
Somerset House is the perfect place for an outdoor city concert. This year's Summer Series line-up includes Air, Florence and


the Machine and dance- floor veterans Soul II
Soul. 8-18 July, Somerset House, London WC2 (020-7845 4600).
Brian Eno is the artistic director of this year's

Brighton Festival (1 -23
May), which features a mix of dance, theatre, music and talks. Among the highlights are Drcamthinkspeak's Chekhov-inspired play Before I Sleep and Howard Goodalls The Selfish Giant, a new orchestral piece for children based on Oscar Wilde's short story (01273-709709).




Just out in paperback
Peace by Richard Bausch (Atlantic £7.99). Bausch's new "ice-sharp novel" has the "granite bleakness of a tin-hatted Cormac McCarthy" (The Independe