25 FEBRUARY 1989, page 37

Music

Authentic Broadway Robin Holloway T he 50th anniversay in 1987 of George Gershwin's death was marked among much else by a festival at the Barbican, a glitzy two-part television......

Theatre

Valued Friends (Hampstead) The World According To Me (Playhouse) Hot property Christopher Edwards S tephen Jeffreys' observant new satire dramatises the reactions of a group of......

Cinema

The Accused (`18', selected cinemas) Ashamedly commercial Hilary Mantel A spokeswoman for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders was quoted recently......