Michael White’s classical news: Angela Hewitt; George Butterworth; Peter Tranchell; The Rite of Spring

Fare trade

Rocket man

Steve McQueen’s spirited Blitz is clumsy but admirable

Spoilt for choice

Review: Reykjavik, at Hampstead Theatre

Review: How to Survive Your Mother, at King’s Head Theatre

Grooves: The Libertines; The Maccabees; Lowkey; Turin Brakes; Pitchfork Festival

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a sophisticated ‘will she, won’t she’

The art of war

The Front Room: guest makes home a house of horror

La Poule Au Pot is reassuringly timeless

Drawn to words

Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, at Marylebone Theatre

Review: The Forsyte Saga, at Park Theatre

Review: Oedipus, at Wyndham’s Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: Chichester Psalms; The Turn of the Screw; Schumann; Johan Dalene

The grubby truth

Reel time

Viva Vauxhall!