The jazz side of the tracks

Suave spooks? Black Bag reveals the dull lives of today’s spies

‘Photographs meant miners and their communities could prove what was happening’

Review: Punch, at Young Vic

Review: The Seagull, at Barbican Theatre

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: My Neighbour Totoro; Sprint Festival; The Mosinee Project; Spent; We Wear Our Wheels with Pride

Amid neighbourhood closures, how Bombay Nights is still going strong

Michael White’s classical news: Declan Hickey; Turandot; Figaro; Handel Festival; Kyan Quartet

Ecumenical matters: my life on Craggy Island

‘They are the most misunderstood band in history’

Dark comedy Mickey 17 grabs MAGA movement and shakes it furiously

Review: Alterations, at National Theatre

Review: The White Rose, at Marylebone Theatre

Review: A Knock on the Roof, at Royal Court Downstairs

Grooves: St Patrick’s Day; Big Zuu/Capo Lee; International Women’s Day; Nubya Garcia; Nieve Ella

Michael White’s classical news: Jennifer Vyvyan; Helen Charlston; London Sinfonietta; Czech Philharmonic

A home from home – just over the road

The age of indolence… and how ‘retirement’ has become a dirty word

A farewell to arms? Bombs, bullets and blighted lives

How photojournalist captured the daily, mundane evil of Apartheid