Union Chapel hosts an evening of instrumental improvisation, including the world premiere of Bryn Harrison’s To Shadow, with organ, cellos and gamelan

Sister Helen on death row

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Jazz at The Constitution; Semyon Bychkov conducts Mahler; Tannahill Weavers; violinist Alberto Bologni; Water Musics

Review: There or Here, at Park 90: Park Theatre

Review: Rothschild and Sons, at Park 200: Park Theatre

The Boogaloo’s radio brainwave

Dan Carrier’s movies news: Tomorrow: Transport and Travel; The Nothing Factory

Caveman of the match!

Review: So Many Reasons, at Camden People’s Theatre

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Camden Rocks; To Kill A King; Eastern Barbers

It’s PiL on the festival bill!

Why not indulge in a little Mee time?

‘Black music cannot be sidelined anymore’

Review: The Birthday Party, at Harold Pinter Theatre

Mini-Matt leaves us with a shrinking feeling

Tosca as screen idol

Pianist Lucy Parham’s ‘words and music’ Rêverie of the life of Debussy, narrated by Simon Russell Beale

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Come and sing Mozart’s Requiem; The Well-Tempered Clavier; Alan Brownjohn poems; Uilleann piper Calum Stewart

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: Somewhere a Gunner Fires; Calm Down, Dear; The Mitfords

Biography brings Frankenstein writer to life