Worlds apart in Children of the Snow Land

A wide scope of abstracts selected by collector Tim Sayer at Zuleika

Naked history

Look back in anger

Multifaceted past master

Multi-tasking maestra with the LSO

A long-lost orchestral Phantom to be heard again

Michael White’s music news: American jazz; Gloriana choir; Smetana

Unlocking a bad system

Review: The American Clock, at The Old Vic

Review: Inside Bitch, at Royal Court Upstairs

Unhappy home truths in Ray and Liz

Review: The Son, at Kiln Theatre

Review: We’re Staying Right Here, at Park Theatre

Happy news on the King’s Cross landscape

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Koko; Atmosfear; Childish Gambino; Carl Finn

Food writer Jay Rayner is hungry for a story

Defoe’s classic kidnapped by panto pirates in Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe

Highgate Choral Society set to pack a punch with Poulenc and Janáček

Michael White’s music news: Clara Schumann, English Touring Opera; Bernard Haitink