Review: Alligators at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs

Baby’s crash course in living as a criminal

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news

Review: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, at Wyndhams Theatre

Review: Attic, at King’s Head Theatre

Review: Ink, at Almeida Theatre

Dan Carrier’s movies news: London: A Bigger Picture; Risk

The grieving Hampels’ war of words

Paper talk

Prescience of mind – when art reflects life

Key change

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: And Here I Am at the Arcola;Best Served Cold; Lady Killers; Pygmalion

Dan Carrier’s movie news: Risk – a portrait of Julian Assange; London Screen Archives’ special dementia event

Singing Our Lives: refugees and immigrants in the UK given voice in a new song cycle

Highgate Choral Society premieres Two of Three Angels in a weekend of summer concerts

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Family workshop at the RAM; sounds from Lebanon and Egypt; chamber choirs at St George’s Bloomsbury; jazz from Hungary at Spice of Life

Record of the week: Snow, by Angus and Julia Stone

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Start of BST; Kele Okereke at Proud Camden; Low Lily at The Green Note

Turkish mezze with a fresh twist at Laz

Glasto: heaven ’17