La Ferme is on course to shake up convention

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Bach Weekend; jazz with Malcolm Earle Smith; late Beethoven at Kings Place; Sir Simon Rattle double bill

Orphan’s odyssey in city under shadow of the plague

How dancer who fled Nazis found perfect stage in north London

Why the famous Tricycle theatre is being renamed the Kiln

Wrong film at the wrong time

Dan Carrier’s movies news: A Fistful of Dollars; Devil’s Freedom

High spirits at the seaside in Ghost Stories

Review: The Inheritance, at Young Vic Theatre

Review: Sankara: The Fall and Rise of an African Hero, at Cockpit Theatre

Lady Macbeth is queen of the night

Drop in on The Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Aurora Orchestra; opera for Keats Grove Library; jazz with Claire Martin

Lara learns lessons from Lessing

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Spice Girls; Nick Cave; Elisa; The Dead Daisies

Kris at Kenwood as concerts return

Carousel: The chefs they are a-changin’

‘Uber drivers feel they’re viewed almost as a servant class’

Theatre’s half-century in Hampstead