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Direct and to the point: Richard Eyre believes that the 'theatreness' of theatre marks it apart from the other media

Art of the matter

Director Richard Eyre says it's time to rethink our ideas about what makes great art

Navigator / Reveal Records Mixtape giveaway

Available exclusively to readers of The Independent online, Navigator and Reveal records present a compilation of 30 tracks of the finest new music around, all free to download.

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Exposed: most intimate secret of erotic blogger

Arifa Akbar: Years of guessing end as sex writer Belle de Jour is revealed as a scientist from Bristol.

'2012' gets ahead of rivals at US box office

North American film-goers favored the apocalypse over Christmas this weekend as disaster flick "2012" beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office, according to early estimates Sunday.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

The Empire's normally heaving, sweaty mosh-pit was furnished with seats for this particular concert, lending the venue a more low-key atmosphere, but one that seemed appropriate for the unostentatious Aboriginal singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. Supported by a string quartet, second acoustic guitarist Francis Diatschenko and double bass player Michael Hohnen, Gurrumul, who was born blind, was led to his seat carrying his right-handed guitar, which he plays upside down.

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Bryn Terfel arrived in the capital armed with countless sneers and as many ways to make mischief. His latest album, Bad Boys – a comprehensive gallery of operatic rogues and villains – was now a tour, and there was a big, glossy, souvenir programme to prove it.