Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Jury; Albion; theSpaceUK; Salomé; Puppet Picnic Festival

London in the stinging Sixties

Raise a glass to pub artist

Every gull for himself in Fledgling

A nation divided in The Trial

How the Sharps helped to blunt slave trade

Shifts: compassion and courage in a crisis

Grooves: Beans On Toast; #saveourvenues; Van Morrison; Camden Unlocked

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Flyboy and the Robot; Horrible Histories; Beckett; Comedy on The Terrace; Three Kings

The dark side of Dickens

Darker Pinocchio is truly enchanting

Holy unacceptable: racism and the Church of England

Beach boys and girls in Wild Swimming

Gypsy Queen shows pubs can bounce back

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Sāvitri; John Etheridge

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Strasbourg 1518; Monologues; Madame Kalamazoo; Her & Her; Three Kings

Max factor: Hampstead’s ‘incomparable’ dandy

Mental health: tales of hope

Young at art: first exhibition for Nargiz, 90

Bird in the Sky: homesick mechanic who vanished