Michael White’s classical news: Classical Pride; Spitalfields Festival; Handel’s Semele

Grooves: BST Festival; All Points East; Wet Leg; Jeru the Damaja; Beth Gibbons

‘Old Odell’: out-of-work actor who kicked King George V out of his favourite chair

Artist’s feel for colour

‘I just love walking around and thinking of all the people here’

Start with St Jerome

Review: King of Pangea, at King’s Head Theatre

Review: The Midnight Bell, at Sadler’s Wells

Review: Stereophonic, at Duke of York’s Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: Proms at St Jude’s; Ragged Festival; Yevgeny Kissin; High Barnet Chamber Music Festival; Salon Music

How former kebab shop is ‘reimagining the pizza experience’

Moving pictures: how travel has influenced artists

‘I would finish a scene, only to witness it play out in real life a short while later’

Lollipop: powerful film that deals with poverty and homelessness comes from director’s heart

Novel performance as Camden is the stage for star-crossed lovers

Review: Our Cosmic Dust, Park 200

Review: The Reckoning, at Arcola Theatre

Michael White’s classical news: London Symphony Orchestra; Proms at St Jude’s; Chamber Domaine; Antoine Préat

Grooves: Alice Cooper; Aerial Salad; Chris Helme; Sophie B Hawkins; Dead Belgian

The rebel priest who stood bail for Oscar Wilde