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<p>Clockwise from L-R: Eddie Redmayne, Jacqueline Wilson, Lashana Lynch, Charli XCX, Steve Coogan, Cate Blanchett and Paddington Bear are all lighting up autumn’s culture-sphere </p>

Autumn culture guide 2024: From Sally Rooney’s new novel to Rivals

From the novels everyone will be talking about to the starriest West End productions, here’s your guide to the coming season’s cultural highlights, as picked by our writers

<p>L-R: Rose Matafeo, Pear, ‘Playfight’, Sarah Keyworth, Patti Harrison, Emma Sidi </p>

Amid the Baby Reindeer trauma shows, Edinburgh Fringe had its gems

<p>Tosin Cole (Dre) and Heather Agyepong (Des) in ‘Shifters'</p>

Epic new romcom Shifters has West End audiences swooning

<p>The cast of ‘The Years'</p>

The Years at the Almeida is a unique, profoundly moving experience

Interviews

<p>‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’ </p>

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Playwright James Graham: ‘Anyone who writes off the Tories is a fool’

<p>Carlos Acosta is making a rare appearance in his own version of ‘Carmen’ at Sadler’s Wells </p>

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Carlos Acosta: ‘It’s hard to talk about weight in ballet’

<p>Ben Schwartz: ‘We forced John Malkovich to watch Con Air with us’</p>

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Ben Schwartz: ‘I haven’t seen a shred of darkness in Jim Carrey’

<p>Cox’s latest role is in ‘a beast of a play’ that’s ‘unremitting’ and ‘never lets you off the hook’ </p>

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Brian Cox: ‘I can’t afford $110 each for one night at the theatre’

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