Goldsmith\u2019s Centre for Contemporary Art<\/a>, London, to 13 December
Expect an outsider\u2019s portrait of Britain in this debut UK institutional exhibition for Evelyn Taocheng Wang, taking a heavily conceptual look at what makes us so uniquely us (humour, reserve, period dramas) through sculpture, painting and installation. Eddy Frankel<\/p>\n
Going out: StageHome front economics \u2026 The Standard of Living.<\/p>\n
The Standard of Living
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, to 12 December
James Graham has an uncanny way of combining character and country. His latest play stars Rory Kinnear and is about the radical economist John Maynard Keynes, set against the backdrop of a Britain reeling from the first world war. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Miriam Gillinson<\/p>\n
Rhys James
30 September to 15 May; tour starts Folkestone
Yet to achieve household-name status, 35-year-old James is widely considered one of UK standup\u2019s master craftspeople. His new show Chop Logic combines a relentless stream of ingenious gags with the story of his circumcision. Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n
Murder Before Evensong
Watermill theatre, Newbury, to 14 November
Rev Richard Coles\u2019s cosy crime novel is adapted for the stage. It\u2019s 1988 in the peaceful village of Champton, where life centres on the church, but a shocking murder changes everything and the rector is pulled into the investigation. MG<\/p>\n
Thick & Tight
Tuesday to 28 November; tour starts Newcastle upon Tyne
The Guardian\u2019s best dance show of 2025 goes on tour. A hilarious, subversive, offbeat treat from uncategorisable duo Thick & Tight and guests, Natural Behaviour mixes dance, text, lip-sync and silliness in surreal sketches. Subjects include the writer James Baldwin, lesbian seagulls and the dust in Quentin Crisp\u2019s flat. Lyndsey Winship<\/p>\n
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Prime Video, 2 October
Catherine Zeta-Jones goes full madcap camp \u2013 and even gets to keep her native Welsh accent \u2013 in this big, bonkers crime caper about an ex-con art dealer whose past catches up with her. Daniel Ings, Raff Law and Sidse Babett Knudsen also star.<\/p>\n
Sky Atlantic & Now, 2 October, 9pm
It\u2019s Sienna Miller v Dominic West in this deluxe new thriller from George Kay (Lupin, The Long Shadow). A film star and tech titan face \u201cthe biggest divorce trial in British legal history\u201d, meaning their respective teams of lawyers, including Nick Mohammed, will stop at nothing in order to come out on top.<\/p>\n
Netflix, 1 October
Zoe Kazan follows in her grandfather Elia\u2019s footsteps with this adaptation of Steinbeck\u2019s 1952 opus. Florence Pugh gets her teeth stuck into one of fiction\u2019s most notorious antiheroines in Cathy Ames, whose author described her as having a \u201cmalformed soul\u201d. Christopher Abbott plays her abandoned husband.<\/p>\n
Channel 4, 1 October, 10pm
A former couple \u2013 promising young architect Lil (comedian Lara Ricote) and directionless graduate Ben (Samuel Bottomley) \u2013 are forced to cohabit in a London flat due to a watertight rental contract in this sweet and goofy will-they-won\u2019t-they (get back together) comedy from Jess Bray. RA<\/p>\n
PC; out 29 September
A cyberpunk life-simulation where, instead of running around with a futuristic pistol and getting caught up in gang wars, you are just trying to make a living. Starting out with a food stand, you can eventually own the night through a network of bars, restaurants and clubs \u2013 and learn everything about the city from your loose-lipped patrons.<\/p>\n
All platforms; out 29 September
Outcast monster hunter Geralt of Rivia gets caught up in the dark machinations of phantom huntsmen and warring kings in this updated and complete version of an all-time great role-player. If you have somehow yet to play this eastern European dark fantasy masterpiece, you really have run out of excuses. Keza MacDonald<\/p>\n
Out now
After Sabrina Teitelbaum\u2019s first pop-leaning incarnation as BAUM imploded in 2020, the New Yorker morphed into alt-rocker Blondshell. While the musical backdrop is heavier and more guitar-based, that pop nous still runs through this third album, especially on the galloping Fur Elise.<\/p>\n
Out now
Named after her local pub, the fourth album \u2013 and her first for the much-loved label 4AD \u2013 by Melbourne-based songwriter Julia Jacklin is full of lovingly crumpled rock. Exploring reinvention, longing and excavation, songs such as The Hardest Thing and I Wish are full of unforgettable melodic nuggets.<\/p>\n
Out now
After getting lost in the major-label system, US bop-maker Tinashe has thrived as an independent artist. On her eighth album she dabbles in hyperpop elasticity via the undulating Melatonin, while the low-slung Crash Out adds trap and R&B to the mix.<\/p>\n
Out now
The French synth-pop outfit, led by Anthony Gonzalez, return with their 10th album, and first in three years. Worked up from demos recorded in 2024 as a way of capturing the spirit of the band\u2019s earlier work, it opens with the blown-out alt-pop of the cinematic Blister Sunrise. MC<\/p>\n