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theatre pop pop pop theatre art pop theatre the audience wilko johnson my bloody david bowie hamlet david timberlake the book of Helen Mirren puts on the Dr Feelgood’s maverick valentine After an absence in Jonathan Slinger is maljkovic Singer-turned-actor- mormon crown at the Gielgud in guitarist is in a race Art rock’s most long- which he was presumed the latest RSC prince; First British retrospective turned-restaurateur- Famously foul-mouthed Peter Morgan’s play about against time and awaited no-shows aren’t ailing, Bowie shock- Charlotte Cornwell, who for this gifted Croatian turned-singer and much acclaimed, HM’s meetings with her pancreatic cancer, just on tour, hopefully released a single; now his returns to the RSC after photographer and Timberlake releases his the musical penned by prime ministers. Haydn getting an in the playing tracks from the first album in a decade 32 years, is his mother, film-maker who found first new music in half South Park creators Gwynne is Margaret can and playing these new, enthralling album is nigh. A V&A style in David Farr’s production fame with his haunting a decade. The 20/20 Trey Parker and Matt Thatcher. Stephen Daldry sell-out dates. Some that seasoned noiseniks retrospective, from which runs at Stratford montages of Orson Experience (allegedly Stone and by Avenue Q directs. Until 15 June. farewell tours are really had given up hoping for. 23 March, and a BBC until 28 September. Welles’s The Trial, shot in this is music “you can co-creator Robert Lopez just that – bring tissues. Ear protectors required. documentary in May Zagreb, with present-day see”) also boasts the opens at the Prince of classical Koko tonight, Birmingham Academy complete the comeback. classical images of the city. Baltic, return of celebrated Wales, London. steve reich then touring to 16 March. tonight, then touring theatre art dudamel Gateshead, until 30 June. theatre fin-de-siècle producer film The London Sinfonietta to 18 March. peter and alice simon starling Venezuelan maestro once Timbaland; and – not to theatre trance gives the world premiere Judi Dench and Ben One of its most Gustavo Dudamel and After triumphing be outdone by Beyoncé the low road Danny Boyle, the of the minimalist guru’s film Whishaw star as the controversial winners, the LA Philharmonic on Broadway, John – there’s a documentary Dominic Cooke directs mastermind behind Radio Rewrite, inspired by broken and oz real-life models for Starling took the 2005 in residence for the (Black Watch) Tiffany about it all too. his final production as the Olympics opening Radiohead, plus Clapping Theatre director Rufus Wonderland’s Alice Turner prize for his European premiere of brings his production triumphant artistic ceremony, returns Music and Double Norris’s film debut, a and Peter Pan. John travelling hut. Now John Adams’s Gospel of the musical based director of the Royal to cinema with this Sextet. Royal Festival gritty family drama (Red) Logan’s new play he has the run of the According to the on the 2006 movie to Court. Bruce Norris’s violent British art-heist Hall, London (tonight), starring Tim Roth and is at the Noël Coward Tate’s Duveen Galleries Other Mary, director the West End. Phoenix play about cut-throat psychological thriller, Birmingham Town Hall Rory Kinnear. Also out theatre, London until to fill with more post- Peter Sellars. Plus theatre, London. Declan capitalism is at the starring James McAvoy, (tomorrow), Brighton today is Sam Raimi’s 1 June. conceptual sculpture. masterclasses and Bennett and Zrinka Jerwood Theatre Rosario Dawson (above) Dome (7th), Royal Concert Wizard of Oz-prequel, Oz Tate Britain, London, until concerts. Barbican, Cvitesic star. Downstairs until 11 May. and Vincent Cassel. Hall, Glasgow (9th). The Great and Powerful. 20 October. London (14, 16, 17).

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classical film theatre pop theatre art film pop pop classical easter mo n d ay spring ta bl e yeah yeah othello saloua raouda love is all phoenix beyoncé joshua bach marathon breakers Rufus Norris directs yeahs Unmissable choucair you need Wolfgang Amadeus Mother-of-one Mrs Opera North’s staging Unmissable all-day Kids writer Harmony the first play in the Mosquito, the Shakespeare at the Tate Modern presents A Danish hairdresser Phoenix (2009) tore Carter dons an ancien of Handel’s mighty event with John Eliot Korine gives spring- Shed, the National’s fourth album National. Adrian Lester, the first UK show of this recovering from the French outfit out regime coronet, gold oratorio. Conducted by Gardiner and the break hedonism a dark new temporary stage. from New York fresh from glory in Red nonagenarian Lebanese chemotherapy leaves her of the embrace of bustier and sceptre Stephen Layton, directed Monteverdi Choir: twist as four college girls Written by Tanya mavericks Yeah Velvet, takes on the pioneer of abstract art in cheating husband and those in the know and and steps out for some by Charles Edwards nine hours of Bach, get bailed out of jail by Roder, it features nine Yeah Yeahs, title role and the Middle East. Expect falls for an Englishman into the mainstream. long-awaited UK tour (and look out for the culminating in his the local thug (played by performers playing promises a roots Rory Kinnear elegant symmetry, line, (Pierce Brosnan) at her From the sound of dates. Birmingham London Handel festival, B minor Mass, Royal a less-attractive-than- 30 characters and reggae influence, a plays Iago curve and the revelation daughter’s eventful Entertainment, the first LG Arena tonight and 11 March to 16 April). Albert Hall, London, and usual James Franco). runs until 18 May. rawer sound and – in Nicholas of modernism in the Arab Italian wedding. The first single from new album touring until 9 May. Grand theatre, Leeds, live on Radio 3. surprisingly – one Hytner’s world. Until 20 October. romcom from Oscar- Bankrupt! released until 4 May. classical pop dance art track that sounds production in winner Susanne Bier. today, that process isn’t dance theatre art the sixteen peter rijksmuseum like the Cocteau the Olivier. dance going to stop any time sidi larbi the kite fiona rae Harry Christophers’s Seven years ago, schaufuss The world-famous Twins. Just don’t Booking romeo and film soon. cherkaoui runner Turner Prize nominee vocal group continue The 1970s drug-drama Dutch museum, home actually look until juliet the reluctant In a new conceptual work, Khaled Hosseini’s and YBA Rae comes in their annual Choral underwent an ever- Midnight Express of The Night Watch and at the cover 6 July. The National Ballet fundamentalist Puz/zle, Cherkaoui and bestselling novel from the cold after years Pilgrimage in so-subtle paradigm rendered into dance by Vermeer’s Lady Reading art. of Canada in a new Mira Nair brings to the his longtime collaborator and film is staged without a museum Winchester shift with the Knife’s the choreographer of a Letter, newly restored production by in-demand screen Mohsin Hamid’s Damien Jalet ask if there for the first time in show. Zany, psychedelic, Cathedral (today), . Now the Diana the Princess, and for the occasion, reopens classical choreographer novel following the path are ways of approaching Europe at Nottingham pick-and-mix paintings St Alban’s Swedish brother-sister starring Royal Ballet after a shocking 10 Alexei Ratmansky. Love of a New York-based life’s problems that we Playhouse where, in sampling sources as Cathedral (6th), duo return with Shaking escapee Sergei Polunin. years and every kind of and death in Verona, Pakistani man whose haven’t considered. With a joint production with various as Matisse St John’s College Chapel, the Habitual, a 13-track, Weird trips guaranteed builder’s nightmare. served up in quirkily relationship with the Corsican polyphonic Liverpool Everyman, and Disney. Towner Cambridge (12th) double CD, triple vinyl all round. Coliseum, fabulous style. Sadler’s US turns sour in the singers A Filetta. Sadler’s it runs until 18 May. Gallery, Eastbourne, and beyond. shiver-storm. London, until 14 April. Wells, London, to 21 April. aftermath of 9/11. Wells, London, to 25 April. until 23 June.

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art film pop pop classical film film classical theatre dance ellen i’m so excited primal scream angel haze wozzeck cannes film the great ariadne auf to kill a oracle gallagher Pedro Almodóvar Their 2008 album, Rescheduled from ENO music director festival gatsby naxos mockingbird The Australian Arguably America’s returns with what he Beautiful Future, was February to May to Edward Gardner Still the film world’s most The era-defining Glyndebourne Harper Lee’s dramatic choreographer and best-known African- describes as “a very anything but. But Primal accommodate the conducts Berg’s discerning jamboree – novel gets a festival opens with story is staged at the ex-Pina Bausch dancer American artist gets light comedy” set Scream now have a new recording of her debut unsettling first opera and the best-attended blockbuster Richard Strauss’s increasingly enterprising Meryl Tankard celebrates the run of a floor at Tate almost entirely on an bass player, a new album album proper, hard- in a new production by by the stars, the line-up revamp from the heady masterpiece Regent’s Park Open Air the centenary of The Rite Modern for her polemical imminently doomed (More Light, the band’s hitting rapper Angel Young Vic associate and jury for this 66th master of cinematic (until 11 July). The theatre. It will be directed of Spring with an intense films, essays and plane. Worth it for the 10th) and a suitably Haze’s UK tour finally director Carrie Cracknell. festival will be announced decadence, Baz season includes The by the artistic director solo, set to Stravinsky’s sculptures, including her bonkers trailer – three reinvigorated new gets rolling. Scala, Leigh Melrose sings mid-April. Until 26 May. Luhrmann. Features Marriage of Figaro, Timothy Sheader, and masterpiece, for the best-known series of air stewards miming single in 2013. London tonight, the title role. Coliseum, a soundtrack from Billy Budd and run until 15 June. charismatic Paul White. satirical advertisements to the Pointer Sisters and touring London, until 25 May. classical Jay-Z and performances Falstaff. Always Queen Elizabeth Hall, on ideals of black track – alone. theatre until 12 May. pop the pirates of from Leonardo DiCaprio, worth checking dance art London, tonight. beauty in America. Until brighton vampire penzance Carey Mulligan (pictured) box office/online witch-hunt michael landy: 1 September. festival weekend This evergreen Gilbert & and Tobey Maguire. for availability. Cathy Marston’s new saints alive Michael Rosen is this They released the title of Sullivan staging returns in Lewes, East work, set to a collage Skip-artist and year’s guest director. their new LP – Modern a D’Oyly Carte/ Scottish Sussex. of baroque music and notorious trasher of his The programme includes Vampires of the City – Opera production text, tells the story own possessions, Landy The Great Enormo, for via a New York Times starring Richard Suart of an 18th-century has created seven huge narrator and full orchestra, classified ad. Just as and Steven Page. Tours Swiss woman executed kinetic saints out of junk. and My Life After, by Lola classy is this one-off Glasgow, Aberdeen, for witchcraft and Each figure is designed to Arias (above), an insider’s date at London’s Troxy Edinburgh, Inverness, attempted murder. act out scenes based on evocation of post- to celebrate the release Manchester, Bristol, Bern:Ballett at the paintings in the gallery. dictatorship Argentina. of Vampire Weekend’s Newcastle, Oxford and Linbury theatre, Royal National Gallery, London, Until 26 May. third album on 6 May. Cardiff, until 20 July. Opera House, to 25 May. until 24 November.

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