On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights
The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead
‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation
The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works
Straight Acting by Will Tosh review – out on stage
A rich study of queer desire in Shakespeare, from cosplay in The Merchant of Venice to gender fluidity in Twelfth Night
On my radar: Golda Schultz’s cultural highlights
The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in London
Tracey Emin and Imelda Staunton get damehoods in king’s birthday honours
Others honoured from cultural world include the writer Monica Ali, choreographer Wayne McGregor and children’s laureate Joseph Coelho
Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst
Hopkins’ Sigmund Freud locks horns with Matthew Goode’s CS Lewis in an imaginary encounter that is watchable but not terribly profound
Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age
Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much
Romeo n Juliet 4EVA review – Jamaican teens breathe fresh life into Shakespeare romance
What started life as a reality show following kids in schools putting on Shakespeare has become a rather lovely adaptation with performances that give the pros a run for their money
Viola’s Room review – Punchdrunk’s gothic tale of puzzling wonder
Helena Bonham Carter narrates as a bare-footed audience explore exquisite rooms in this unsettling, grief-soaked journey into the night
Hide the marmalade! Paddington Bear is back – and this time he’s gone immersive
The fluffy accident-prone favourite is donning his red wellies and duffle coat for a magical new ‘experience’ that is half-theatre and half-party. Our writer braces herself for a look behind the scenes
On my radar: Anjana Vasan’s cultural highlights
The actor on an electrifying production at the Old Vic, her favourite TV show since Succession and one of the best plates of spaghetti she’s ever had
Matthew Rhys on Dylan Thomas: ‘He was the rock star poet’
The actor is playing the writer in a dramatic reading of a one-act play that carries a special meaning for those involved
The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel
Emma Rice directs an ebullient RSC version of the landmark 1990 story of sex, music, class and racism
‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth
He was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As he appears as Shardlake, the star recalls the parts that made him – and explains why this latest character is like the Lone Ranger
On my radar: Shami Chakrabarti’s cultural highlights
The politician and lawyer on Salman Rushdie’s remarkable memoir, Manchester’s magnificent music school and powerful depictions of wars both real and imagined