Summer Arts Calendar Our critics pick the season’s highlights From Lady Gaga to Harry Potter, Coppélia to POP FILM THEATRE CLASSICAL ART DANCE ARCHITECTURE Tony Cragg, this summer has something for all For special ticket deals for cultural events, including some of those featured here, visit guardian.co.uk/extra M AY JULY FILM THE TREE OF LIFE ARCHITECTURE The much-delayed fifth feature from director Terrence Malick, SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 4 snapped up by Icon for UK release ahead of its Cannes showing, 1 Every year the Serpentine asks a famous architect to design the gallery a is a multi-generational drama featuring Brad Pitt (right), Sean temporary pavilion. This year it has lured Peter Zumthor out of his Alpine lair. Penn – and, reportedly, dinosaurs. POP KE$HA CLASSICAL FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD America’s second-most outrageous starlet is back on our shores. Opera North’s production of Janáček’s final work, directed by John Fulljames and conducted by 3 Ke$ha’s Get $leazy world tour is oversexed and over here until 13 July. 5 Richard Farnes. Stars Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Alan Oke and Roderick Williams. Leeds and touring. DANCE SYLVIE GUILLEM DANCE BY SINGING LIGHT/ROMANCE INVERSE New contemporary works by William Forsythe, Mats Ek and Jiří Kylián National Dance Company of Wales bring Stephen Petronio and Itzik Galili’s arresting double bill to 5 performed by the ballerina (right). Essential. To 9 July at Sadler’s Wells. Dance City in Newcastle, with the former set to the poetry of Dylan Thomas. ART THOMAS STRUTH THEATRE SHREK One of Germany’s most praised photo artists comes to Whitechapel Art Gallery. Includes the Nigel Lindsay plays the lime-coloured, lovelorn ogre, with Amanda Holden as Princess Fiona and 6 celebrated Museum series and recent installations of Cape Canaveral and the Korean shipyards. 6 Nigel Harman as Lord Farquaad, in this Anglo-American production at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. ART GLAMOUR OF THE GODS CLASSICAL THE DAMNATION OF FAUST Hollywood portraiture from the industry’s golden age, 1920-60. From Greta Garbo to Audrey Ex-Python Terry Gilliam takes on the devil as director of this ENO staging of Berlioz’s masterpiece, 7 Hepburn, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe: photographs that transformed actors into conducted by Edward Gardner and starring Peter Hoare, Christine Rice and Christopher Purves. international style icons. At the National Portrait Gallery. CLASSICAL STEVE REICH AT 75 THEATRE DOUBLE FEATURE UK premiere of Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11, part of the two-day Reverberations festival at the Four new plays by Sam Holcroft, DC Moore, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Tom Basden - all writers 7 Barbican. Then toured by the Kronos Quartet in Glasgow (13 May) and Norwich (17 May). 8 new to the National Theatre - are staged by a new ensemble in the Cottesloe. THEATRE THE CHERRY ORCHARD FILM JACK GOES BOATING Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his directorial debut and stars in this tale of lost souls and Zoe Wanamaker stars; Howard Davies, who has excelled in the staging of Russian drama, Lady Gaga’s hugely confused love lives in snow-bound New York. It’s based on a 2007 play in which he also appeared. 10 directs at the National, with a design by Bunny Christie and a translation by Andrew Upton. anticipated second album, Born This Way, FILM CANNES FILM FESTIVAL is released on 23 May. THEATRE A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS Robert De Niro heads the jury at Cannes this year, casting his eye over eagerly awaited films In what promises to be a radical production, Katie Mitchell directs Thomas Heywood’s celebrated 11 by Lars von Trier, Pedro Almodóvar, Lynne Ramsay and Woody Allen, whose Midnight in Paris 12 but rarely seen 1603 play. The domestic tragedy will be staged in the National’s Lyttelton. opens the competition. FILM THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART TWO DANCE ROYAL BALLET After 10 years the Harry Potter franchise reaches its The season’s penultimate triple bill at the ROH includes the Royal Ballet premiere of JUNE 15 denouement with a film set to keep box-offices busy. 13 Balanchine’s Ballo della regina and a new work, Live Fire Exercise, from Wayne McGregor, set to a score by Sir Michael Tippett. DANCE UN PEU DE TENDRESSE BORDEL DE MERDE CLASSICAL THE PROMS Dave St-Pierre is the enfant terrible of Canadian dance and has provoked POP GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL The BBC Proms opening fortnight includes Havergal Brian’s mammoth FILM ATTACK THE BLOCK 2 comparisons with Pina Bausch. In this production at Sadler’s Wells, Barring any mishaps, U2 finally lead the charge at Worthy Farm, “Gothic” symphony, new conductor Juanjo Mena and soloist Steven The debut feature from Joe Cornish, of Adam and Joe fame. A “hoodie horror” his 20 performers are literally and figuratively stripped naked. 22 with Beyoncé (right), Coldplay, the Chemical Brothers and Osborne. Pianist Lang Lang (right) is booked for the last night. about aliens landing in south London and teenage gangs uniting to fight them. Morrissey providing backup. NB: Dengue Fever are a band on the bill, not this year’s health scare. ART THE GOVERNMENT ART COLLECTION POP LATITUDE ART TATE ST IVES Discover which works of art your government owns; which Lowrys, Turners and The headliners may be iffy – the National and Paolo Nutini – but Latitude in Suffolk is a sublime Treats at the Cornish gallery’s Summer Exhibition include late paintings by 3 Bridget Rileys hang in Downing Street. All is revealed at the Whitechapel Gallery. CLASSICAL TWO BOYS antidote to the mud and mayhem of other festivals. And Alan Hollinghurst is in the Lit Tent. 14 Agnes Martin, installations by Martin Creed and sculpture by Naum Gabo. ENO premiere of Nico Muhly’s co-production with the New York 24 Metropolitan Opera about a teenage stabbing. With a libretto by Craig ART VENICE BIENNALE Lucas, directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Rumon Gamba. POP SNOOP DOGG POP KATE BUSH: DIRECTOR’S CUT Quite simply the most important international art event in the world; 82 artists in the The lazy drawl of Calvin Broadus has long been eclipsed by the rapper’s multiplatform media While fans await an album of new material, the fabulously eccentric 4 official Giardini pavilions, with many more off site at the Arsenale. Until 27 November. career. It’s worth savouring, as he performs 1993’s Doggystyle at Manchester international Bush (right) has chosen to rework a selection of older songs: “The FILM THE FIRST GRADER festival and, on Saturday 16 July, at east London’s Lovebox Weekender. 16 When the Kenyan government introduces free primary schooling, a former Mau Mau fighter, Sensual World” gains a new title and lyrics from Ulysses. ARCHITECTURE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION now in his 80s, applies for an education. Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) directs, Usually less stuffy than its art counterpart; curated this year by a stylistic odd couple of Naomie Harris co-stars in this British film which won an audience award at Tribeca. DANCE ROLAND PETIT THEATRE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 7 the flamboyant postmodernist Piers Gough and the more restrained Alan Stanton. Triple bill of works by the French choreographer, Margot Fonteyn’s lover and husband of Zizi Hotly awaited. David Tennant and Catherine Tate play the sparring lovers at Wyndham’s in London. 20 Jeanmaire. Includes the sexy, existentialist Le Jeune Homme et la Mort. ENB at the Coliseum. They are directed by Josie Rourke, who takes over as artistic director of the Donmar next year. ART MAGRITTE: THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE DANCE COPPÉLIA Still the best of the surrealists, with this first show in a generation focusing on eroticism, visual Peter Wright’s production of Coppélia with the Birmingham Royal Ballet is a funny, occasionally revelation and the influence of commercial design. More than 100 paintings at Tate Liverpool. FILM NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION ART TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT 8 spooky, family ballet, set to Delibes’s irresistible score. At the Lowry, Manchester, and touring. Winner of the Golden Bear award at Berlin in February, Asghar Farhadi’s fine film explores class Tracey Emin needs no introduction, and quite possibly no huge solo retrospective, but this tensions in present-day Iran as a middle-class couple on the verge of separation battle over the 18 show of sculptures, photographs, films and drawings at the South Bank’s Hayward Gallery FILM BRIDESMAIDS care of an elderly relative. will no doubt thrill her fans and infuriate her detractors alike. POP MELTDOWN In this female riposte to the stag-party-gone-wrong subgenre, produced by Judd Former Kink Ray Davies is this year’s curator at the South Bank, recreating 60s TV show Apatow, Saturday Night Live regular Kristen Wiig (who co-wrote the script) plays a 10 Ready Steady Go!, and springing surprises such as the Fugs. But will the Kinks reform? lovelorn maid of honour ill-equipped to organise her best friend’s pre-wedding rituals. CLASSICAL ST ENDELLION FESTIVAL THEATRE LORD OF THE FLIES An ambitious festival in north Cornwall (stars perform for no fee). Includes Wagner’s Die William Golding’s savage fable, adapted by Nigel Williams, plays in the open air until 18 June at 26 Walkure with Susan Bullock (30 July), which then goes to Truro’s Hall for Cornwall (2 Aug). 19 Regent’s Park theatre, which is enjoying its most imaginative era for decades. CLASSICAL ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL POP ARCADE FIRE Opens with Simon Rattle and the CBSO. Premieres by Elliott Carter and Harrison Birtwistle , First, the Texan/Haitian/Canadian indie wunderkinder as well as Netia Jones’s site-specificEverlasting Light, set in Sizewell.