Michael White’s classical news: Hampstead Arts Festival; Age of Enlightenment Orchestra; Vox Luminis; BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Dots and pure colour

Box of delights: this year’s TV Christmas crackers

Review: Freedom, Rhythm & Sound – Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art

Review: The Six Billion Dollar Man

Review: Ebony Scrooge at Sadler’s Wells East

Review: Dracapella at Park 200

Michael White’s music news: Monteverdi Vespers at Hampstead Parish Church; seasonal concerts; Turandot

Grooves: One Eighty One; Drink The Sea; Dublin Castle book clubs; Amy Winehouse Band; Christmas events…

Review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, at @Soho Place

Review: After Sunday, at Bush Theatre

Review: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story, at Alexandra Palace Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: Ariodante; Messiah; La Rondine; Vaughan Williams

Original landscape rivalry

It’s show time!

‘It’s one thing being an insurgent – and another being in power and being expected to run things’

Miles ahead – a centenary year

Review: End, at Dorfman, National Theatre

Review: All My Sons, at Wyndham’s Theatre

Pink-puffery and politics make Wicked: For Good a blast