The future music director led brisk performances including new work by Julia Adolphe

Cross-stitch, espionage and possibly time-travel converge in E.V. Crowe’s new play

Sutton Foster adds new life to Neil Simon’s musical but the sexual politics need updating

The long-lived satirical news show combines political observation with daft whimsy

The series captures individuals at rest among their homes, documenting their interiors in meticulous detail

Sobering year-on-year auction totals; Bowie bonanza; mature artists to the fore; brisk business in Shanghai

The Art Market

The photographer vividly documents the world of work

The band chugs through a landscape of glowering riffs, lightning-flash solos and scorched-earth drumming

Live recording is taken from concert performances, but conductor Jaap van Zweden rouses much of the drama

Isabelle Faust fields a delicate palette of colours, barely touching the strings at times

A vibrant, multi-textured series of songs that use a soulful bassline and jazzy, psychedelic synths

Strings swoop and swoon, ouds and angular Turkish rhythms compete with twanging guitars

Album employs thumb-slapped bass and chunky dance beats, and is redolent of an age of lotharios with permed hair

A reimagined mix of Ellington classics and standards, packed with rhythm, invention and wit

A graceful musical shimmer, a place of easily flowing rhythms and deft psychedelic effects

The composer talks about his work, his influences — and the need for affection in music

Mahan Esfahani makes the most of his harpsichord’s range of timbres and embellishes repeats

The cast is first-class, but David Alden’s staging is a missed opportunity

Director Justin Lin keeps things moving swiftly in fitting tribute, 50 years after first TV episode

Officially sanctioned document of the band’s live performance period captures the excitement that greeted their arrival

With new movies by Ken Loach and the Dardennes in cinemas, is it the genre for our times?

Beige boiler suit meets bogeyman once again in Paul Feig’s comedic reboot of 1984 film

State-of-the-art stagecraft meets a career-best performance by Simon Russell Beale

The US artist was one of life’s great collaborators, working with music, choreography and every kind of media. Five artists share what he means to them