Michael White’s classical news: City Music Foundation; Salon Music; High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

Grooves: Elton John; Jedward; Jack Valero; Pride; Fellow Pynins

Pater not so familiar

Greek chorus

‘Forget the gallery, art belongs in the open air’

Review: Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields

Review: Jitney at the Old Vic

Michael White’s music news: Proms at St Jude’s; Camden Choir; Cosi fan tutte; Flight; Wigmore Hall

‘We get stick in the country scene when they discover we’re not American’

Theatre news: Cancelling Socrates; Diversifications; Moment of Grace; Tolstoy Tried to Kill My Girlfriend; The Dance of Death; The White Card; A Doll’s House, Part 2

Displacement reaction

Hacked off

Cook’s tour

Dame Paula Rego ‘always had a different take’

Lives study

Grief encounter in Everything Went Fine

Review: The Still Room, at Park 90 Theatre

Review: The Girl on the Train, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Review: Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera, at Park 200 Theatre

Grooves: Lorde; BST Festival; The Night Owl; Mavis Staples