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Autumn arts preview 2016

Guardian critics pick the best in UK arts and entertainment to look forward to this season

  • Actor Freddie Fox.

    Freddie Fox: Tom Stoppard's Travesties still fizzes like candyfloss

  • Alan Moore, Zadie Smith and Ali Smith.

    From Ali to Zadie: the best books of autumn 2016

  • Lucy McCormick’s Triple Threat

    Lucy McCormick, the fringe messiah making a cabaret of Christianity

  • Dutch comic Hans Teeuwen.

    The deranged Dutchman is coming! The finest comedy of autumn 2016

  • Miley Cyrus v Jeremy Clarkson: the must-see TV of autumn 2016

  • Get in gear: autumn's 10 hottest video games

  • WNO - Macbeth. Northern Ireland Opera Cast 2014. Photo credit - Patrick Redmond

one from the Northern Ireland production of Macbeth

press image supplied by Billie Thomas <billie.thomas@wno.org.uk>

    From Schumann to Shostakovich: the unmissable classical performances of autumn 2016

  • Treats in store ... Björk, the Boss, Lady Leshurr and David Bowie

    It's oh so cultural: the sharpest sounds of autumn 2016

  • No Man’s Land

    Encore!: the best theatre of autumn 2016

    Will Maxine Peake sizzle as Streetcar’s southern belle? Can Glenda Jackson crack King Lear? And will Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart beat their Beckett?
  • Rock Charlemagne … a young Bruce Springsteen.

    Bruce Springsteen: born to write

    With the Boss still in prime stadium-filling form, and with plenty of intimate truths still to give up, his new tome promises more than the average rock memoir
    • Blake Lively on sharks, starlets and filming with Woody Allen

    • Mia Hansen-Løve: 'Oh no, please don't touch the cat!'

    • Barack, the Beatles and Bridget Jones's Baby: 40 films to watch in autumn 2016

  • Holoscenes

    Holoscenes: Lars Jan's 3,500-gallon warning to humanity

  • Robert Rauschenberg in front of his picture of President Kennedy

    Robert Rauschenberg: the leader of American art's great ménage à trois

  • Clockwise from top left, Jimi Hendrix from You Say You Want a Revolution?, The Dice Players by Georges de la Tour from Beyond Caravaggio, Project for Door (After Gaetano Pesce) by Turner prize nominee Anthea Hamilton; and Mexico City by Enrique Metinides from ? The Image As Question.

    Eyes on the prize: the must-see art and design of autumn 2016

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

    Jump to it: the must-see dance shows of autumn 2016

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