FIRST REVIEW - CANNES: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson offers a charming and beautifully filmed parable of young love.
FIRST NIGHT: Detroit, National's Cottesloe
Lisa D’ Amour’s shrewdly observed play finds both comedy and pathos in the decay of the suburbs.
OPERA REVIEW: Falstaff, Covent Garden
Under-rehearsed revivals are one thing. For a new co-production with La Scala and Toronto, there can be no excuse for such an operatic omnishambles.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: Woody Allen: a documentary
FIRST REVIEW: Presented on the opening day of the 65th Cannes Festival is Robert Weide’s documentary about the back in-vogue writer-director.
DANCE REVIEW: Rambert Dance Company/L’Après-midi d’un faune/ What Wild Ecstasy, Sadler’s Wells
Celebrating his 10th anniversary as artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, Mark Baldwin offers his modern-day take on Nijinsky's 100-year-old ballet.
POP REVIEW: Fun., XOYO
The Billboard chart toppers you've probably never heard of prove they're no one hit wonders, channelling both Queen and Panic! At The Disco in an energetic set.
JAZZ REVIEW: Robert Glasper Experiment, Barbican Hall
The laid-back Texan pianist-composer proves he and his band really can walk the walk.
POP REVIEW: Haim, Shacklewell Arms
LA sisters get down and dirty in Dalston: if Haim can sign a deal, get ready for one of the albums of the year.
COMEDY REVIEW: Russell Brand, Lyric Theatre
Brand is back: as playful as ever, the newly single Hollywood star waxes lyrical in an off the cuff work-in-progress.
ART REVIEW: Island Stories: 50 Years of Photography in Britain, V&A
An engrossing encounter with tales of time and place in this visual documentary of British life.
Cannes Film Festival - in pictures
Follow the glitz and glamour as stars arrive for the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Bring on the Wah! Wah! Girls
The classical mujra dancers of 16th-century India have been turned into pole dancers in contemporary Britain, writes Tanika Gupta, whose new musical plays with the theme.
The latest in extreme theatre
Based on a cover-to-cover reading of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby — with two intervals — Gatz is the latest in extreme theatre, says Fiona Mountford.
Opening this week
From Kirsten Stewart's latest premiere to the first night of Danny DeVito's West End play and Jay-Z at the O2.
POP REVIEW: Ladyhawke, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Pip Brown showcases polished new material and bangs out the classics in an occasionally awkward, but ultimately successful comeback.
A Slow Air, Tricycle - review
David Harrower’s low-key but richly rewarding two-hander with Lewis Howden and Susan Vidler.
JAZZ REVIEW - Lewis Wright, Pizza Express Jazz Club
Only 24, though professional for nearly a decade, the Young Musician of the Year winner confirms his boy wonder status.
FILM OF THE WEEK: The Dictator
Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen rules as his latest monstrous and monstrously funny character.
CLASSICAL REVIEW: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons, Barbican Hall
Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and Metamorphosen make a fascinating pairing in the second concert of the Royal Concertgebouw's residency.
THEATRE REVIEW: Babel, Caledonian Park
A promenade performance as part of the World Stages programme, but one that severely lacks definition.
COMEDY REVIEW: Simon Amstell, Reading Hexagon
So angsty he makes Woody Allen look like Will.i.am, Amstell explores why he feels so lonely.
DANCE REVIEW: Snow White/Ballet Preljocaj, Sadler’s Wells
A fetish twist on a fairytale classic as Prelijocaj lets his imagination run away with him with spectacular results.
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The art market again defied the global economic gloom with a Mark Rothko sunset painting becoming the world’s most expensive contemporary artwork.
Tamara Rojo: ‘I danced in private for George Osborne’
The Royal Ballet’s principal ballerina, tells Jasmine Gardner about her special show at Number 11, how the company failed Sergei Polunin and her new job at the ENB.
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