Michael White’s classical news: Jamie Barton; Mahler; Marin Alsop; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; BBCSO

‘I feel it is important to track how Carnival has evolved down the years’

Murky role of UK and US in bringing down Iranian progressive is laid bare in Coup 53

Curtain calls: the pick of Camden Fringe

Grooves: Edward and Konstantin at Phonox; Kraftwerk; Graceland

Review: Houghton festival, August 6-9

The End of Oak Street: A must-see whopper of a turkey

Grooves: The False Dots; Junior Parker; Jane Fitz

Revew: Tao of Glass, @ Soho Place

Revew: Cats, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Michael White’s music news: Prom nights, with Berlioz; Richard Strauss; Anthony McGill; Elgar; Walton and Davis

Not Only for Ourselves

Preview: A Slow Fire, Jermyn Street Theatre

Grooves: Houghton Festival; Thievery Corporation; Hope Sandoval

Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost, at Shakespeare’s Globe

Michael White’s classical news: Tchaikovsky; Wynton Marsalis; Evelyn Glennie

Review: Cleansed, at Almeida Theatre

Review: The Car Man, at Sadler’s Wells

The Marvellous Mr Muoneké

‘Given how prolific plastic is in every part of our life, how have they managed to stay out of the public story for so long?’