For the record

Grooves in festive mood – take your pick of the party spirit!

Michael White’s classical news: Choral concerts including at St John’s Smith Square, St Michael’s Highgate and Barbican, and Mozart at ROH

Rimini: anti-hero crooner tries to change his tune

Review: The Smartest Giant in Town, at St Martin’s Theatre

Review: Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor, at Park200

With more of us short of dough, Berberè is buzzing

Michael White’s classical news: St John’s Smith Square; Anna Lapwood; Matthias Goerne; Yuja Wang; Dame Sarah Connolly

Sick notes

Another big award for Little Simz

Art helps ‘rebound after Covid’

Three Day Millionaire: trawlermen plot to keep their heads above water

‘Greatest of us all’

Jazz goes to church

Review: The Pixie and the Pudding, at Little Angel Studios

Review: Baghdaddy, at Royal Court Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: Highgate International Chamber Music Festival; London Handel Players; Winterreise

Grooves: The Linda Lindas; Roundhouse In The Round; Beans on Toast; The Hu

Eastern premise

Review: Dinner With Groucho, at Arcola Theatre