Good to be mixing it once again!

Half-term activities to keep the young ones Hooked

This year’s intimate opera festival Tête à Tête promises to be ‘a scream’

Curtain up on Opera Holland Park’s summer season

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Belgian choir Vox Luminis; Indian recitals; come & sing folk song; French and Italian arias; Sarabande

TV editor switches to record shop role

Review: Return to the Forbidden Planet, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Review: Sex with Robots and Other Devices, at Kings Head Theatre

Review: Schism, at Park Theatre

Inside a life of conflict in This Is Congo

Author tackles emergency in nursing recruitment

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Beans on Toast; All Points East; Nick Heyward

Dan Carrier’s movies news: A Cambodian Spring; Lost In Vagueness

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: A Sockful of Custard; Into the Woods; Left My Desk; Stitchers

Review: Effigies of Wicked­ness (song banned by the Nazis), at Gate Theatre, Notting Hill

Cocktails? Something’s stirring at George’s Bar…

How Greece helped shape Rodin in stone

Pete Dunne: the wild rover artist

Lessons in Love and Violence is a right royal affair with music to die for