‘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

Michael White’s classical news: Up Close and Musical; Royal Academy of Music; John Cage Day; Proms at St Jude’s

Wellcome home

Review: The Glass Menagerie, at the Duke of York’s Theatre

Review: The Haunting of Susan A, at King’s Head Theatre

Jazzy June

When Helena met Hillary

Girl power

‘We offer a good bit of arty sustenance – for the soul and tummy’