Winter Arts Calendar 2012/13 DESIGN POP FILM THEATRE ART CLASSICAL DANCE The Observer’s critics pick the season’s highlights DECEMBER 1 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 13 15 20 22 FILM POP THEATRE POP THEATRE THEATRE CLASSICAL ART DANCE CLASSICAL THE HOBBIT: AN SCOTT WALKER JULIUS CAESAR THE BLACK KEYS PRIVATES ON THE WIND IN THE FAIRFIELD HALLS FROM DEATH TO BOING! BACH’s UNEXPECTED The avant-garde Walker Phyllida Lloyd, returning Before finally going PARADE WILLOWS AT 50 DEATH On Christmas Eve, CHRISTMAS JOURNEY Brother returns with his to theatre after The overground with last The Michael Grandage Now a full decade London Mozart Players Masterpieces from Wilkie and Joel are ORATORIO Well, not so very first album since 2006’s Iron Lady, directs an year’s raved-about Company opens a on from its premiere, perform Britten’s Les the Scottish National too excited to sleep. Highlight of a Christmas unexpected. Every The Drift. Not for the all-female cast at the El Camino album, Ohio season of five plays William Tuckett’s larky Illuminations with Gallery of Modern Art Breakdance meets festival at St John’s, Smith move has been tracked faint-hearted, Bish Bosch Donmar, with Frances duo the Black Keys had at the Noël Coward, version of Kenneth soprano Sally Matthews, and the Daskalopoulos comedy in this acclaimed Square, London, with the by fanboys, through finds the former romantic Barber playing Caesar, been touring extensively London. Simon Russell Graham’s bucolic tale, and symphonies by collection. Scottish children’s show. Lilian choir of Trinity College casting Martin Freeman hero deep in dystopian Jenny Jules as Cassius for a decade, honing their Beale is the cross- with libretto by Andrew Mozart and Schubert. National Gallery of Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Cambridge and Stephen as Bilbo and Benedict territory, at once and Harriet Walter excellent live shows. dressing Captain. Motion, is an established Conductor Gérard Modern Art, Edinburgh, Wells, London, until 31 Layton conducting the Cumberbatch as the sonorous and rigorous. as Brutus. Having stepped up to Christmas treat. Linbury Korsten. Fairfield Halls, until 8 September. December. Orchestra of the Age of dragon Smaug to the arenas with ease, their Studio theatre, Royal Croydon. Enlightenment. return of the king, CLASSICAL DANCE latest UK tour kicks off Opera House, London, FILM Peter Jackson, to take H7STERIA MATTHEW THEATRE in Newcastle. Metro THEATRE until 5 January. THEATRE LIFE OF PI over directing from World premiere of BOURNE’S HELLO, DOLLY! Radio Arena, Newcastle VIVA FOREVER! HANSEL AND Ang Lee films the Guillermo del Toro. But Jocelyn Pook’s Hearing SLEEPING Janie Dee takes the lead and touring. Spice Girls songs provide GRETEL unfilmable: the Middle-earth (or, as it’s Voices and a makeover BEAUTY role in Paul Kerryson’s the music. A TV talent Katie Mitchell directs Booker-winning sometimes known, New of Muse’s Hysteria The master of the production of the 1964 show is the starting Lucy Kirkwood’s script. Yann Martel Zealand) is back for the (I Want It Now) in dance musical completes hit, featuring music and point of the plot. The Based on the Brothers novel about a next three Christmases. centenary celebration his Tchaikovsky trilogy lyrics by Jerry Herman, script has been written Grimm story, the play boy stranded at of Schoenberg’s Pierrot with the gothic tale who also wrote La by Jennifer Saunders has puppets designed sea on a lifeboat Lunaire. BBC Concert of Aurora and a love Cage aux Folles, Mack – her first West End by Toby Olié, while the with, eventually, just Orchestra, Queen beyond time. Sadler’s and Mabel and Mame. musical. Piccadilly human cast includes a (crouching?) tiger Elizabeth Hall, Wells, London, to Curve, Leicester, until theatre, London. Ruby Bentall. Cottesloe, called Richard Parker for London. 26 January. 12 January. London until 26 January. company. JANUARY 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 21 23 25 26 28 30 31 FILM POP CLASSICAL FILM CLASSICAL DANCE THEATRE ART THEATRE ART POP LES MISÉRABLES KENDRICK THE MINOTAUR THE SESSIONS THE REST IS THE OLD KING QUARTERMAINE’S MANET: IN THE SCHWITTERS IN JANE BIRKIN Tom Hooper follows LAMAR Harrison Birtwistle’s Bravely physical NOISE In a new production TERMS PORTRAYING LIFE BEGINNING WAS BRITAIN The Japanese tsunami The King’s Speech with Hot new US rapper epic version of an performances from John The start of the by Ballets C de la B, Rowan Atkinson makes The blockbuster of THE END This exhibition follows feels like a long time an epic adaptation of Lamar embarks on his ancient myth returns Hawkes and Helen Hunt Southbank Centre’s with choreography by his first appearance in a the year and the first Dreamthinkspeak’s the career of the ago, but the suffering the Boublil-Schönberg first headline tour of with John Tomlinson power the Sundance year-long “soundtrack Alain Plâtel, a lost soul play for almost 25 years. British show ever to promenade production German dadaist Kurt continues. Rescheduled musical. The USP is that the UK – accompanied, unmissable in the title festival prize-winning of the 20th century” undertakes a harsh He stars at Wyndham’s focus on the portraits weaves through Schwitters from his from last October, Hugh Jackman (Valjean), we hope, by a hologram role and Christine Rice story of polio victim and festival, inspired by interior journey in search theatre, London, of this archetypal underground passages, escape to Britain in 1940 Birkin plays the music Russell Crowe (Javert), of Tupac Shakur, as Ariadne, conducted poet Mark O’Brien, who the book by Alex Ross. of his humanity. Linbury alongside Conleth Hill modern master, with using film, installation to his death in Cumbria, of her former partner, Anne Hathaway, et al as featured at last by Ryan Wigglesworth. hires a “sex surrogate” Opening the event are theatre, Royal Opera and Will Keen in Simon more than 50 works. and mechanical focusing on his collages Serge Gainsbourg, in recorded their vocals summer’s Coachella Royal Opera House, to lose his virginity. Also the London Philharmonic House, London, until Gray’s tragicomedy. Royal Academy of Arts, engineering. Somerset and assemblages aid of Japanese tsunami live during festival. Newcastle’s O2 London, until out today: Tarantino’s Orchestra and soprano 23 January. Richard Eyre directs. London, until 14 April. House, London, until incorporating every victims. Cadogan Hall, takes. THEATRE Academy, and touring. CLASSICAL 28 January. hotly anticipated Django Karita Mattila in an Until 13 April. FILM 30 March. conceivable material. London. OLD TIMES OTELLO Unchained. all-Richard Strauss LINCOLN Tate Britain, London, Kristin Scott Thomas Opera North marks the programme. Royal Daniel Day-Lewis grows until 12 May. THEATRE and Lia Williams 200th anniversary of POP Festival Hall, London, whiskers to play the icon A LIFE OF alternate roles in Verdi’s birth with a new ALt-J until 9 June. of American political LIGHT SHOW GALILEO Harold Pinter’s production by Tim Albery Mercury prize-winners thought battling to bring Neon sculptures, optical Mark Ravenhill has play. Rufus Sewell conducted by music Alt-J continue to an end to slavery, under illusions, atmospheric written a new translation is their man. director Richard Farnes. celebrate their panel the direction of Steven shadows and fluorescent of Brecht’s play. It will Harold Pinter Grand theatre, Leeds, validation with a pair Spielberg and the music installations: from Dan be performed, with Ian theatre, London, then touring Salford, of sold-out gigs at the of John Williams. Sally Flavin to Olafur McDiarmid in the lead, until 6 April. Belfast, Nottingham and O2 Shepherd’s Bush Field, David Strathairn Eliasson. Hayward at the Swan in Stratford- Newcastle until Empire, London, tonight and Tommy Lee Jones Gallery, London, upon-Avon, until 30 23 March. and tomorrow. co-star. until 28 April. March. FEBRUARY 1 2 4 7 8 12 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 DESIGN POP ART CLASSICAL FILM THEATRE ART ART FILM POP SHARD VIEWING JAKE BUGG MAN RAY LULU THIS IS 40 THE LICHTENSTEIN: A RB KITAJ: ACADEMY JOHNNY MARR GALLERY The hardworking PORTRAITS Marie Arnet stars in As it’s a Judd MISANTHROPE RETROSPECTIVE OBSESSIONS AWARDS After stints in the You’ve probably seen troubadour tours This first major Welsh National Opera’s Apatow movie, After the success The most popular of The first major And the winner is… Seth Healers, the Cribs, Britain’s tallest building throughout February. retrospective of the new staging of Berg’s this should be of his versions of all the pop artists. The retrospective in MacFarlane. TheFamily Modest Mouse, from the outside. O2 Academy Sheffield artist’s photographic last masterpiece, directed the big comedy Tartuffe and The show will include 125 20 years for RB Kitaj, Guy creator, director of film-scoring, Now you’ll be able to tonight. work is a snapshot of by David Pountney. hit of the year: Hypochondriac, Roger major works, from one of the most hit comedy Te d and remastering and get the view from its an art era as well as Millennium Centre, a sort-of sequel McGough now adapts Wham! to I Know How significant British noted big-band crooner various other part-time high-level viewing an exploration of Man Cardiff, then touring to Knocked Up, a third Molière comedy. You Must Feel, Brad, in painters of the postwar of the American assignations, the former gallery, a panorama Ray’s pioneering use of Birmingham, Llandudno, with Paul Rudd and It runs at Liverpool collaboration with US era. Pallant House songbook, seems the Smiths guitarist Johnny that takes in the whole solarisation and early Southampton, Milton Leslie Mann (Apatow’s Playhouse until 9 March, museums.