Dan Carrier’s movies news: Our alternative Oscars go to…

Phoenix rises in You Were Never Really Here

The shock of the new

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Spoken word at Camden Market; John Cale; Ara Malikian

In search of Schumann: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the LSO in an exploration of the composer’s works

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Semiramide; Michael Tippett; Jelly Roll Morton; piano recital at Emmanuel Church; Flight at the Royal Academy of Music

Handel’s oratorio heralds the spring concert season

The new Oz trials in Sweet Country

Within these walls: the secret history of Cloth Fair

Review: Frozen, at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Review: Macbeth, at National Theatre, Olivier Theatre

Review: Ballistic, at King’s Head Theatre

Review: 1984, at Theatro Technis

This year’s BST is bound to be a big one

Burger joint’s daily grind is a cut above

Rock’n’roll models and the story of Proud

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: Sprint; Boat People; From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads; Monster

Life skills

Dan Carrier’s movies news: Oscar hopefuls; Flames Of Paris; The Hedy Lamarr Story

Spies who came back in from the Cold War