Grooves: Alice Cooper; Aerial Salad; Chris Helme; Sophie B Hawkins; Dead Belgian

The rebel priest who stood bail for Oscar Wilde

Compleat makeover: hooked by seminal book full of ‘strangeness’, folklore… and fish

Tornado: Breathless storytelling and powerful performances in a tale of gold and murderous greed in 18th-century Scotland

Michael White’s classical news: Through the Noise; Tasting Notes; Rising Stars; Alim Beisembeyev

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Overheard in a Tower Block; Tales of a Jane Austen Spinster; Green; Attempts on her Life

Big Star: Extraordinary Skelton has a story worth hearing

Review: Bat Out of Hell, at Peacock Theatre

Review: Elephant, at Menier Chocolate Factory

‘We were battling with jazz being treated like a kind of dead cultural artefact’

The hotelier who could give Basil Fawlty a run for his money

The high life: a trip up the primrose path

Powerful wartime love story inspired by director’s family secret

Review: Little Brother, at Jermyn Street Theatre

Review: Shucked, Open-Air Theatre, Regent’s Park

Michael White’s classical news: Nigel Kennedy; Sir Michael Tippett; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Chelsea Opera Group

Grooves: Meltdown Festival; Avawaves; Shubbak Festival; Erika Jayne; Cat Power

Larry Lamb: ‘I want to show the reality of what the film business is all about’

Singing the praises of a musical polymath

Vive la difference: an alternative tale of two cities