Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: House of Shades; Ordinary Day; The Ballad of Adulthood; Everyday

Impact of the forgotten black Europeans

Review: Sleeper, at the Roundhouse

Wake Up Punk: how anarchy went up in smoke

‘I think it would make a great 10-part Netflix series – I’m waiting for them to come to me’

The naked truth about life models

Review: If. Destroyed. Still. True, at Hope Theatre

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: La Bohème; Kinder; Come What May; But What If You Die?; The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs

Michael White’s classical news: Harrison Birtwistle; Ralph Vaughan Williams; Benjamin Grosvenor; Fidelio

Grooves: Koko; Sleeper; Incineration Festival; Aaron Jonah Lewis

How the arts thrived at ‘the University of Barbed Wire’

Noci: Pre-pasta-ously good

Feud for thought: revisiting The House of Hunger

‘There is no technology riding to the rescue while capitalism is the dominant political philosophy’

Cold snap: quest to photograph snow leopard in The Velvet Queen

Meat given the chop as the Old Crown flourishes

Review: The Corn is Green, at Lyttelton Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: ENO chorus; Don Pasquale; Alexander Karpayev; Jakub Jozef Orlinski

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Wolf Cub; The Lad Himself; Mary Seacole; Uncle Vanya

‘Althea was a design icon – but there wasn’t a single book about her work’