Grooves: Tin Pan Alley; All Points East; Max Richter; Kate Griffin/Matchume Zango; Feeling Gloomy

‘They go from woman to woman and you wonder, wouldn’t it be easier for them to just get a job?’

High-speed? More a slow train to nowhere

A people’s champion: Henry Sharpe’s donkey war

Residents take centre stage at Almeida show

Keeping it reel! Nostalgic 37-seat venue a homage to New York’s ‘grindhouse’ cinemas

Review: Audrey Powne at Ronnie Scott’s and Hakan Başar Trio at Pizza Express, August 28

Beguiling Meanwhile On Earth raises scary questions about grief, time and values

Review: 81 (Life), at Almeida Theatre

Review: The Gathered Leaves, at Park200

Michael White’s classical news: Proms – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Handel, Irish Baroque Orchestra; Hampstead Collective

Travels in a demi monde

Vis à vis Vic: the man whose work inspired Les Mis

‘I’m looking for books that capture a nation’s spirit and reveal something of its soul’

Chance to catch up with the rich repertoire of Polish jazz

The Ceremony: timely thriller is little short of a masterpiece

Grooves: Camden Music Festival; Wyclef Jean; All Points East; Norman Jay’s Good Times; Yungblud

Review: Brigadoon, at Regent’s Park Open-air Theatre

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Children’s Puppet Festival; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; The Enormous Crocodile; The Last Black Messiah

Michael White’s classical news: Proms – Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Joshua Bell; Simón Bolívar Orchestra; Helen Charlston