Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: House of Common Festival; Carnival; YBN Nahmir; The Stargazers

Branch lines

Zeb’s second brush with Gaspard features Cleo

Islington councillor: ‘Reality TV is our freak show’

Asagi Nakata – winning prizes and loving Liszt

A royal treat with Mendelssohn at the Proms

Dan Carrier’s movies news: How to Start a Revolution

Review: Tree, at Young Vic Theatre

Review: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, at Sadler’s Wells

Review: River in the Sky, at Hope Theatre

Review: Evita, at Regent’s Park Theatre

LA lore: Once Upon A Time … In Hollywood

Keeping up with the (Burne) Joneses

A slice of Sicily off Oxford Street

Rise wide open: festival to showcase new talent

Doing the dissent thing…

Resurgent ‘Hampstead novel’ shows it’s not the dying type

Review: Peter Gynt, at National Theatre, Olivier