Pomp it up: How ‘Britannia’s butler’ epitomised English aristocratic grandeur at the height of the Empire

‘Their relationship was a marriage between the literary and art world’

Stevie Wonder is flawless at unforgettable Hyde Park show

40 Acres: Cannibalism in Canada gives food for thought

Review: That Bastard Puccini!, at Park 200

Review: The Estate, at Dorfman, National Theatre

Grooves: BST; Bronski Beat; Yoyoka; Scottish Fish; Fab Femme

Sumner loving: how Sting helped support a bandoneon master

Michael White’s classical news: Christian Blackshaw; Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha; Freddie de Tommaso; Proms

Take your seats, the curtain’s going up!

‘Let’s face it, it was an inner-city hole and you had to watch your back’

Crate expectations: Rock On returns to its spiritual home

The soot & silence…

Review: Noughts & Crosses, at Regent’s Park Open-Air Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: Proms; Opera Holland Park; International Guitar Festival

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Gravity; This Bitter Earth; Ivories; A Role to Die For; The Ghost of White Hart Lane

‘People are afraid to come out, I get it – costs are high’

Gone fission: the scientists with their heads in the (mushroom) clouds

‘If you had a gun you were seen as more left-wing’

Grooves: Jazzie B; Lena Jonsson Trio; Campbell King; Hyde Park BST Festival