Michael White’s classical news: Figure; Lieder-book; Rigoletto

Passing on the baton

Review: Rockets and Blue Lights at the National Theatre

Michael White’s music news: Last Night; Pavel Kolesnikov; LSO; Rigoletto; London Festival of American Music; Islington Proms

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Sprint Festival; The Wishing Tree; Cathing Comets; NW Trilogy; WMC theatre course

Grooves: Massaoke; R.A. the Running Man; Frank Turner; Loud Women Fest 5; Damon Albarn…

Rightful indignation

Piccadilly peccadillos

Ryan’s gigs: Tomorrow’s Warriors; Sheila Maurice-Grey; Rachael Cohen; Mornington Lockett; Charlie Wood; Ian Shaw; Theon Cross

Shang Chi: latest Marvel movie rings bells

Review: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, at Almeida Theatre

Bad Vegan offers a new way to give meat the chop

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Modest Little Man; The Good Dad; Coppelia; Prison Game; Carousel; White Witch; Camp Siegfried

Michael White’s classical news: Proms; Les Illuminations; London Choral Sinfonia

My beautiful lorgnette

Le Carré: still waters run deep

Ryan’s gigs: Local (guitar) hero John Etheridge; Pat Metheny; Nat Birchall

Journeys of ideas

The Boy and the Pebble: Mod road trip loses its way

Review: When Darkness Falls, at Park 200