Cartwright Hall Art<\/a> Gallery, Bradford, 27 September to 22 February
Is the Turner prize still relevant? Can it start national conversations? Head for Bradford, this year\u2019s UK city of culture, to find out as the shortlisted artists strut their stuff. Photographer Rene Mati\u0107 and painter Mohammed Sami stand out for their striking work. Zadie Xa and Nnena Kalu also compete.<\/p>\n
Marie Antoinette Style
V&A South Kensington, London, to 22 March
The French queen whose life ended brutally is revived here as a style icon. Echoes of the ancien r\u00e9gime\u2019s rococo fashions in modern pop culture are juxtaposed with 18th-century paintings and objects in\u00a0a show that brings together the historical and contemporary \u2013 or does\u00a0it trivialise a tragic past?<\/p>\n
Yuki Kihara
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 3 October to 1 March
Two white male icons are deconstructed in a show that combines Paradise Camp, an installation inspired by Gauguin\u2019s paintings of Tahiti, with a video entitled Darwin Drag. Gauguin\u2019s images of the Pacific are mocked and reclaimed by this queer, indigenous artist who also gives the theory of evolution a twist. Jonathan\u00a0Jones<\/p>\n
Going out: StageShe has a lot of Clout \u2026 Stevie Martin.<\/p>\n
Stevie Martin
2 October to 6 December; tour starts Manchester
For the modern standup, in-person performance is only half the job \u2013 making popular social media content is now non-negotiable. In Clout, Martin, who pivoted from live sketch to viral videos in lockdown, (she has since appeared on Taskmaster and in Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping) \u2013 entertainingly deconstructs the demands of online and IRL comedy. Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n
Bacchae
National Theatre: Olivier, London, to 1\u00a0November
Heartstopper actor Nima Taleghani\u2019s very first play premieres on the Olivier stage. It\u2019s a modern take on Euripides\u2019s The Bacchae, infused with spoken word, music and dance and helmed by the National\u2019s new director Indhu Rubasingham. Miriam Gillinson<\/p>\n
Syncopated
Liverpool Playhouse, to\u00a04 October
The real-life story of an African American jazz band who toured the UK in 1919, set against the Liverpool docks and rippling with memories and music. From leading Black British theatre company Talawa and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse. MG<\/p>\n
Dance Umbrella
Various venues, London, and online, 2 to 31 October
The annual contemporary dance fest makes a point of presenting artists from around the world who aren\u2019t well known (yet) to UK audiences. This year there\u2019s cutting-edge performance from Colombia, Sweden, Senegal and more. You can also buy a digital pass to watch a specially selected programme of dance films online. Lyndsey Winship<\/p>\n
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BBC One & iPlayer, 3 October, 9.30pm
An appearance from Norfolk\u2019s finest is always a gift from the comedy gods, but this new series, in which Alan\u00a0addresses the nation\u2019s mental health, crisis feels especially promising. Steve Coogan returns to satirise yet another era of British telly.<\/p>\n
Disney+, Tuesday
This new series isn\u2019t quite the direction you\u2019d expect an ascending Hollywood leading man to go in, but Glen Powell proves he doesn\u2019t take himself remotely seriously with an Adam Sandler-esque comedy about a disgraced college quarterback who dons prosthetics in the hope of scoring a second chance at American football stardom.<\/p>\n
Channel 4, 30 September, 9.15pm
She\u2019s the biggest pop star on the planet, but Taylor Swift is yet to get the rigorous, academic-adjacent documentary treatment. This new series is here to change that: directed by Guy King (Our Falklands War), it enlists cultural commentators, industry insiders and fans to discuss a career that has transformed the music business.<\/p>\n
BBC One & iPlayer, 29 September, 9pm
The excellent Northern Irish cop drama moves beyond the mean streets of Belfast and into a more superficially middle-class milieu for its third series \u2013 but our officers are in as much mortal danger as ever. Si\u00e2n Brooke and Martin\u00a0McCann return, with Michael Smiley joining the cast as intelligence officer Colly. RA<\/p>\n
PlayStation 5; out 2 October
The hugely anticipated follow-up to 2020\u2019s open-world samurai epic is set more than 300 years after the original. You play a wandering, and extremely cross, mercenary who enacts painful vengeance upon the outlaws who left you for dead.<\/p>\n
PC, PlayStation, XBox; out 30 September
Or for something completely different, bask in the magnificence of some of the planet\u2019s most Instagrammable choo-choos as you pilot them along routes both famous and pretty. If you\u2019re wondering: \u201cDoes does that include the Riviera route between Exeter and Paignton?\u201d, you can relax \u2013 it does. Luke Holland<\/p>\n
Out now
Keen to prove she doesn\u2019t just emerge from hibernation for Christmas, Mariah Carey releases her 16th album, and first in seven years. Home to the Eric B & Rakim-sampling throwback Type Dangerous and the dancehall-tinged Sugar Sweet, the album features assists from Kehlani and Anderson .Paak.<\/p>\n
Out now
A song on the recent Bridget Jones soundtrack, a Sam Fender support, and a handful of excellent soul-pop bops have shifted the London singer-songwriter into the big leagues. This second album is already home to two Top 10 singles, while next year\u2019s arena tour is basically sold out.<\/p>\n
Out now
This follow-up to the New York noise merchants\u2019 2023 opus 3D Country arrives in the wake of frontman Cameron Winter\u2019s critically adored 2024 solo album, Heavy Metal. Back to\u00a0his day job, Winter\u2019s penetrating growl rips through the jazz-meets-post-rock Trinidad, before smoothing out on plucky lead single Taxes.<\/p>\n
Out now
On her fifth album, Swedish pop star Larsson bottles her sun-kissed emotional exuberance into a tight 30 minutes. The title track is a Jersey Club banger by way of Scandinavia, the rowdy, chant-heavy Pretty Ugly is a glorious headache, while Crush fuses EDM with lustful lyrics. MC<\/p>\n![\"Podcast:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/233.png\")
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Podcast
Music journalist Rob Fitzpatrick\u2019s series about the history of influential independent music labels begins with a deep dive into Beggars Banquet. He traces its development from platforming punks to signing Gary Numan and building an indie empire.<\/p>\n
YouTube
Mixing remastered archival footage with lively explainers, Lost in Time\u2019s videos deliver engaging insights into the past, from turn-of-the-20th-century colourised cityscapes of New York and London to analysis of the Roman empire\u2019s technological developments.<\/p>\n
BBC Sounds, out now
Journalist Runako Celina\u2019s two-year investigation into the death of Ugandan 23-year-old Mona Kizz explores not only the circumstances surrounding her fall from a Dubai tower block but the double standards of the city\u2019s high society. Ammar Kalia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going out: Cinema One Battle After AnotherOut nowClocking in at nearly three hours, this loose adaptation of Thomas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-46186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}