Going out: Cinema<\/p>\n
Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy
Out now
You probably know what The Mummy is, but do you know what a Lee Cronin is? Allow us to assist: he\u2019s the Irish director responsible for effective indie horror The Hole in the Ground and the highest grossing entry in the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rises. His version of this classic horror sees a journalist (Jack Reynor) and his wife (Laia Costa) reunited with their child who went missing in the desert eight years ago, with nightmarish consequences.<\/p>\n
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Out now
Jude Law is, wait for it, Vladimir Putin, with Paul Dano as fictional spin doctor Vadim Baranov in a new thriller from Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper). Based on the l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise prize-winning debut novel from Giuliano da Empoli.<\/p>\n
Miroirs No 3
Out now
German director Christian Petzold returns with a new film (the title refers to the piano solo by Ravel) starring his regular collaborator Paula Beer as a classical piano student recuperating in rural idyll afrer a dramatic car crash.<\/p>\n
Glenrothan
Out now
Brian Cox (the Succession one, not the physics one) steps into the role of director for the first time to helm this comic tale of an estranged brother (Alan Cumming) returning to Scotland after 30 years away in order to make amends with his elder sibling (Cox). Catherine Bray<\/p>\n
Going out: GigsFloor filler \u2026 Amaarae. Photograph: Salome\u0301 Gomis-Trezise<\/p>\n
Amaarae
Roundhouse, London, 23 April
This one-off UK date from the American-Ghanaian singer promises a thoroughly immersive journey through Afrobeats, alt-pop and techno. Also worth noting before you leave the house: there\u2019s a strict all-black dress code. Michael Cragg<\/p>\n
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 22 April
A programme of English early-20th-century classical hits by Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Peter Warlock as you\u2019ve never heard them before. In collaboration with purveyors of immersive experiences Squidsoup, the leading period-instrument ensemble perform with a custom-built Concrete Voids 3D sound system, transforming the venue itself into another instrument. Flora Willson<\/p>\n
Dry Cleaning
Touring to 25 April; tour starts Dublin
Released in January, Secret Love continued Dry Cleaning\u2019s love affair with gloriously off-kilter art-rock, fusing post-punk\u2019s passion for noise with singer Florence Shaw\u2019s hypnotic spoken-word storytelling. This UK tour should also see them debut jagged recent single Sliced By a Fingernail. MC<\/p>\n
Nik B\u00e4rtsch\u2019s Ronin
Kings Place, London, 23 April; Turner Sims, Southampton, 24 April
The Swiss pianist-composer\u2019s unique genre-fluid band has spent 25 years practising what he has dubbed \u201cZen funk\u201d \u2013 Steve Reichian minimalism, Japanese ritual music, prog, jazz, electric-Miles and beyond. They\u2019re touring ninth album Spin, and a pleasing mix of experimentation and accessibility. John Fordham<\/p>\n
Going out: ArtMonster mash-up \u2026 Michaela Yearwood-Dan\u2019s I and I. Photograph: Michaela Yearwood-Dan\/Hauser & Wirth and Marianne Boesky Gallery\/Deniz Guzel<\/p>\n
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
The Whitworth, Manchester, to 18 October
It\u2019s all mashed together in Michaela Yearwood-Dan\u2019s art: painting, ceramics, sound, poetry, diaristic writing. For this, her first institutional exhibition in the UK, she creates a painting-focused and totally immersive, dizzying installation about colonial history, religious institutions and the process of collective and personal liberation.<\/p>\n
Katharina Grosse
White Cube Bermondsey, London, 22 April to 31 May
For her first show at White Cube in almost 25 years, Germany\u2019s Grosse has taken inspiration from a quote in Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Jane Eyre, seeing in it a sense of urgency and intensity that echoes her approach to art. This show will focus on sculpture and immersive works sprayed in situ all over the gallery\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n
The Music is Black: A British Story
V&A East, London, 18 April to 3 January
The impact of Black music on wider British culture is immense. This exhibition \u2013 the first at the V&A\u2019s new museum in Stratford\u2019s Olympic park \u2013 will be a joyful celebration of Black British music and the people who made it, combining archive material, photography, multimedia installations and musical instruments.<\/p>\n
Shaq\u00faelle Whyte Going out: StageHate watch \u2026 Joe Tracini. Photograph: Richard Jarmy<\/p>\n Joe Tracini I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven Driftwood Leap dance festival Staying in: StreamingTable manners \u2026 Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd in Half Man. Photograph: BBC\/Mam Tor Productions\/Anne Binckebanck<\/p>\n Half Man Unchosen Mint This Is a Gardening Show Staying in: GamesThat\u2019s life \u2026 Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Photograph: Nintendo<\/p>\n Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Staying in: AlbumsBlooming heck \u2026 Jessie Ware. Photograph: Jack Grange<\/p>\n Jessie Ware \u2013 Superbloom Zayn \u2013 Konnakol Honey Dijon \u2013 Nightlife Staying in: Brain food<\/p>\n 50 Weeks That Shaped America<\/a>
Wolverhampton Art<\/a> Gallery, to 31 August
Young Wolverhampton-born artist Shaq\u00faelle Whyte\u2019s Blackbirds Singing in the Dead of Night is a dark, atmospheric painting \u2013 and it has just been bought by Wolverhampton Art Gallery for its permanent collection. Now they\u2019re putting it on display alongside a handful of other recent paintings in a homecoming celebration for the 26-year-old painter. Eddy Frankel<\/p>\n
20 April to 1 July; tour starts Norwich
He may have followed his dad, Joe Pasquale, on to the panto circuit, but Tracini\u2019s standup is miles from his father\u2019s frothy light entertainment fare. The 37-year-old\u2019s new show is the starkly candid 10 Things I Hate About Me, which details his experiences of borderline personality disorder, drug addiction and debilitating panic attacks. Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n
Soho theatre, London, Tuesday 21 April to 2 May
Christopher Brett Bailey can turn a theatrical monologue into an out-of-body experience. Now he has adapted his own novella into a screwball solo show about a chance encounter with the devil (in a 7-Eleven). Miriam Gillinson<\/p>\n
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, to 30 May
Martina Laird\u2019s debut play is about self-determination and the search for family \u2013 set in 1950s Caribbean. Trinidad is on the brink of political independence and a new arrival in a downtown gentlemen\u2019s club is about to blow everything apart. MG<\/p>\n
Various venues, Liverpool, 24 April to 9 May
Liverpool\u2019s annual dance fest opens with Cathy Waller Dance<\/a>, featuring an inclusive cast of disabled and non-disabled dancers and a score by Mobo-winning jazz musician Lewis Wright. There\u2019s also youth and community dance, cabaret, workshops, a competition for emerging dance artists plus performances from Phoenix Dance and Akeim Toussaint Buck. Lyndsey Winship<\/p>\n
BBC iPlayer, 24 April
Baby Reindeer may be an impossible act to follow but Richard Gadd is trying with another pitch-black drama. Half Man is a decades-spanning study of masculinity that chronicles the intense bond between non-biological brothers Ruben and Niall (Jamie Bell and Gadd) and the violent act that transforms their relationship.<\/p>\n
Netflix, 21 April
There is no shortage of shows about cults, but this thriller set in a Christian sect looks more hair-raising than most. Trapped in a controlling marriage with Adam (Sex Education\u2019s Asa Butterfield), a young woman called Rosie finds a friend in a charismatic stranger. Christopher Eccleston and Siobhan Finneran co-star.<\/p>\n
iPlayer & BBC One, 20 April, 9pm
A gangland drama with a difference from Charlotte Regan, director of the acclaimed social-realist indie Scrapper. Emma Laird stars as Shannon, the cosseted daughter of a local crime lord (Sam Riley) who is desperate to carve out her own path \u2013 starting with a romance with Arran, played by rapper Loyle Carner.<\/p>\n
Netflix, 22 April
Having made waves early on in his career with satirical interview series Between Two Ferns, it seems only fitting that Zach Galifianakis should branch out into gardening content. Here the comedian guides us in the art of growing plants, something he deems a \u201cremedy to the human condition\u201d. RA<\/p>\n
Switch 2, out now
This endearingly bizarre game has you creating a bunch of tiny people and observing their antics as they live on an island together. Think Sims-lite with a lot of quasi-accidental comedy.
MOUSE PI for Hire
PC, Xbox, PS5, Switch 2, out now
A hand-animated black-and-white shooter about a cartoon mouse detective, this eye-catching game looks like what would happen if 1930s cartooning geniuses made Doom. Keza MacDonald<\/p>\n
Out now
On this sixth album, Jessie Ware leans further into decadent, plush pop, as showcased on lead single I Could Get Used to This and the recent Automatic. The pulsating Ride, meanwhile, is a full-on sticky dancefloor banger, fusing featherlight house with an Ennio Morricone sample.<\/p>\n
Out now
Following the country-tinged singer-songwriter vibes of 2024\u2019s Room Under the Stairs, the erstwhile One Directioner returns to the lovelorn R&B of his 2016 debut on this fifth album. Die for Me is very much Zayn does the Weeknd circa 2015, while the more tactile Sideways is the perfect vehicle for his versatile vocal.
Dorian Electra \u2013 Dorian Electra
Out 22 April
Texas-born experimental pop specialist Dorian Electra tackles a suite of cover versions on this follow-up to 2023\u2019s Fanfare. Across 10 tracks Electra sinks their teeth into the likes of Dylan\u2019s Mr Tambourine Man, Gorillaz\u2019 Feel Good Inc and Shakira\u2019s Hips Don\u2019t Lie, with entertainingly surreal results.<\/p>\n
Out now
Fresh from collaborations with Beyonc\u00e9 and Jamie xx, American producer and DJ Honey Dijon unleashes her bejewelled third album. Honouring classic house, soul and disco, all with a future-facing twist, Nightlife features guest spots from Greentea Peng, Rochelle Jordan and Chl\u00f6e. MC<\/p>\n
Podcast
Marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, this fascinating series from reporter Jody Avirgan examines key periods that shaped the country\u2019s history, from the US\u2019s entrance into the first world war to Obama\u2019s clinching of the Democratic nomination in 2008.<\/p>\n