‘Fervent abstraction’

Last Man Standing: Broomfield goes back to Biggie

Review: Shedding a Skin, at Soho Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: London Song Festival; Don Giovanni; Proms; Proms at St Jude’s

Review: Under Milk Wood, at National (Olivier) Theatre

Grooves: Beans on Toast; Soho Music Month; Josh Okeefe; Hollie Cook; Celeste

Richard Thompson: conventional wisdom

Black Book: the Gestapo’s most wanted Britons

Stall story: author in the market for writing inspiration

Five Strangers: murder on Parliament Hill Fields

Review: And Breathe… at Almeida theatre

Michael White’s classical news: I Fagiolini; Express G&S; City Music Foundation; Suite on Verses by Michelangelo

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: But What If You Die?; Testimony; seven methods of killing Kylie Jenner; Iris summer festival

As restaurants are starved of staff, Akoko hits the sweet spot

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard: protecting the summer blockbuster

Jackie: laughing all the way to the bonk

Bowling for jazz

In The Earth: wood and guts in forest horror

Caught in the dazzle of addiction

Now that’s what you call street art