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

Art of display…

Review: House of Games, at Hampstead Theatre

Review: 1536, at Almeida Theatre

Review: The Fifth Step, @Soho Place

Michael White’s classical news: The Flying Dutchman; Itch; Faust; Elīna Garanča

Why there’s still a stampede to dine at Goodbye Horses – even on a Tuesday

Kiss and Telstar: how Joe Meek took the music industry by storm

Cents and sensibility: stories behind Singer’s ‘Dollar Princesses’

High NRG

Bogancloch: moving portrait of a man escaping mayhem of modernity

Review: Faygele, at Marylebone Theatre

Review: Here We Are, at Lyttelton Theatre

Grooves: Eurovision; Panic Shack; Darren Emmerson; Lene Lovich; JOHNNYSWIM

Michael White’s classical news: James Baillieu; Charles Wood; Pygmalion; Ronald Corp

Grayson Perry: ‘I’m not out to solve the world’s problems with a paintbrush’