Roisin Gadelrab’s music news: Ural Thomas; Roy Harper; Dublin Castle; Malcolm London

Preview: Becoming Electra, a Queer Mitzvah

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: Sick; Trainspotting; Pleasance; Faction

Review: The Lady of the Camellias, at Waterloo East Theatre

Review: Waitress, at the Adelphi Theatre

Dan Carrier’s film news: The American Friend; Benjamin

Putting the corn in Cornwall in Fisherman’s Friends

Worlds apart in Children of the Snow Land

A wide scope of abstracts selected by collector Tim Sayer at Zuleika

Naked history

Look back in anger

Multifaceted past master

Multi-tasking maestra with the LSO

A long-lost orchestral Phantom to be heard again

Michael White’s music news: American jazz; Gloriana choir; Smetana

Navay Bahar: Persian Spring – at the South Bank centre

Unlocking a bad system

Review: The American Clock, at The Old Vic

Review: Inside Bitch, at Royal Court Upstairs

Review: Christian Löffler at the Southbank centre