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Fri, Mar 19, 5:00 PM. Tom Hiddleston plays the lead, architect Dr Robert Laing. JJ. He plays Nobby Grimsby, a football hooligan whose brother Sebastian, played by Mark Strong, is the family’s white sheep – an MI6 agent with a perfect life. Nothing will be sacred, particularly not the daydreams of bored 19th-century housewife Emma Bovary, in a touring show heading to Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton and Northampton. JJ12 January-24 April, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Bastiaansen et al. The cast is led by the very excellent Jonathan Goddard and Hannah Kidd. 48) Comic InventionDid you know that comics were invented in Glasgow? The form has a new star, though, in Grayson Perry. After failing in a task, she is sent to murder her own cousin as punishment. Expect the serious and the silly. Save Boston Egabudde 2021 Cultural Gala to your collection. 22) DheepanJacques Audiard won the Cannes Palme d’Or with this downbeat study of a Sri Lankan immigrant in France – a veteran of his homeland’s vicious civil war who transfers his battlefield skills to the rough housing estate he finds himself in. But this is also a piece in which Koechlin consecrates his deep passion for the stars of the screen; it’s a sequence of surreally heightened portraits in sound of Douglas Fairbanks, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo (a pagan choral for ondes martenot) and, in the final movement, Charlie Chaplin. PB 1 January (UK). Last year, it sold out both of its weekends for a cumulative attendance of 198,000 people. UK viewers will be intrigued by how America and ageing have affected her material, and BBC accountants wouldn’t object if she finds another Simpsons. AP22 January, Parlophone. TS23 and 26 January, Theatre Royal, Glasgow; 29-30 January, King’s theatre, Edinburgh. Henry Cavill returns as the latter while Ben Affleck shoehorns himself into cape and body armour as the Man of Bat. 105) FoalsLike some of their best songs, Foals’ career has owed much to the slow, steady build. In a year explosive with excellent TV (a record 455 "scripted original programs" were released in the U.S. in 2016), two miniseries rose to the top as must-watch events. 118) L’ÉtoileThe first time that Chabrier’s magnificently comedic confection of an opera has been staged at Covent Garden, and it receives a properly Gallic production from director Mariame Clément. For the first time ever, a Black … The New Zealander’s 2014 show Kraken showcased his estimable mime talent, but there’s more matter to its follow-up, and bigger laughs too. SOH19 March-3 July, V&A, London. 8) 13 HoursMichael Bay wades into the political arena with this account of the hot-potato crisis that led to the death of the US ambassador to Libya at the hands of militant Islamists in 2012. But this version by master adapter Andrew Davies really is finally almost here, with a cast resembling a United Nations summit of actors, including Paul Dano, Gillian Anderson, Jim Broadbent and Greta Scacchi. 65) Motown: The MusicalA big hit on Broadway, this show tells the story of Berry Gordy’s rise from featherweight boxer to heavyweight media mogul, founder of the Motown label and mentor to Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and many others. JJ30 January-20 April, Royal Academy, London. It should make for a provocative take on Britishness as seen from the outside. Stories began appearing midway through 2016 asking whether it was the worst year ever.It wasn’t.It’s wasn’t even the worst year in the last half century. AP5 February (UK), 26 December (Aus). CA14 January, Transworld. LG5-27 February, Everyman, Liverpool. 15) TrumboScreenwriter Dalton Trumbo was one of the highest-profile casualties of the Hollywood blacklist, unable to get any credit for his film work between 1945 and 1960. JJ30 January-24 April, Two Temple Place, London. BL14 January-11 March. It was Thomas Aikenhead, a loud-mouthed, free-thinking student in Edinburgh in 1697. – and this film has the potential to be a Stonewall-style embarrassment for him, and to attract the ire of politicos who see this as part of a plan to knock Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. MLBegins early 2016, Channel 4. 34) Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to MatisseMonet’s paintings of his garden are some of the most radical works of the 20th century. 11 Most Memorable Pop Culture Moments of 2016. 49) Glasgow InternationalNew works, site-specific commissions, exhibitions and events at more than 57 spaces across Glasgow. The test will be in how the writers, led by Neil Biswas, find ways of creating jeopardy for a protagonist with such a built-in advantage. MacRae’s music, with its intense lyricism and sharp dramatic intuition, ought be the ideal medium to bring this supernatural drama to life. CA27 January, Jonathan Cape. Redmayne exudes a doomed glamour, and it features an outstanding co-lead in Alicia Vikander, playing Elbe’s wife, Gerda Wegener – an accomplished artist and free spirit. 10) Innocence of MemoriesTurkey’s Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk is the quasi-subject of this poetic travelogue by British director Grant Gee, following his earlier film essay on WG Sebald. With English dialogue and Anglo-American stars (Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano and Jane Fonda also feature), Youth represents Sorrentino’s big play for the international art cinema circuit. The cast will already have Bafta prize juries salivating. Jenny Hill, who conceived it, is joined by nine other female singers from Scotland and England, including Eliza Carthy and Karine Polwart. 81) Robert Newman: The Brain ShowNo one does comedy quite like Robert Newman, the ex-Mary Whitehouse Experience rock’n’roll comic turned activist, novelist and cerebral mainstream refusenik. Goode is always brilliant at teasing out the extraordinary in ordinary lives and this should be a very fruitful collaboration that explores the trauma of grief and the discovery of life amidst death, Angela Clerkin stars as the wife who drops dead in the middle of doing the ironing. Bartabas is inspired by the power of ritual, and in this work evokes the ceremonies of religion and the stage, accompanied by live performances of the Gregorian motets by composer Tomás Luis de Victoria. MBOpens 11 February at Shaftesbury theatre, London. Shu Qi plays a princess who is abducted as a child by a nun in exile, and trained to become a killer for the purpose of assassinating corrupt politicians. It is no coincidence that Monet conceived the display of his waterlily decorations in the Orangerie in Paris as a war memorial. 24) TruthA Broadcast News-type drama of journalistic integrity in the classic American style, based on a true story. He is the subject of this new play by Simon Armitage, a collaboration between Told By an Idiot, National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Lyceum. 135) JerichoITV’s search for a period piece to replace Downton Abbey has taken them to the late 19th century and the working class. Couples representing a variety of lifestyles and generations (though presumably over 17) compete in driving challenges under the instruction of Dermot O’Leary, with the winners going bumper to bumper with Top Gear’s The Stig. Then touring. Featuring 50 songs, with great numbers from My Girl to Dancing in the Street, it may be the ultimate jukebox musical. TS4-18 March, ENO, London. Azar Nafisi, author, Reading Lolita in Tehran I can name a few amazing, as well as a number of disappointing, cultural events for 2006, but none … Bob Odenkirk resumes his winning performance as title character Saul Goodman in episodes expected further to depress the New Mexico tourist board. 127) Wynton Marsalis/Wayne Shorter/Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraThe 82-year-old saxophonist Wayne Shorter remains one of jazz’s most revered and influential living artists, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is the most famous bandleader on the circuit, so a gig pairing the two is a momentous rarity. The day after the full moon in March each year. The film adaptation, from Shark Tale co-director Rob Letterman, was a long time coming, but its mix of live action and animation pulled in the crowds when it was released in the US in October, besting big name directors Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro with Bridge of Spies and Crimson Peak respectively. 99) Yoko Ono: Yes, I’m a Witch TooYes, I’m a Witch Too is a follow-up of sorts to 2007’s Yes, I’m a Witch, in which Ono once more underlines that her music, once reviled, has undergone a vast re-evaluation in recent years. MB.26 January-18 May, Lyttelton, London. Holi Festival in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. AP29 January (UK), 15 January (US), 14 January (Aus). PB12 February (UK), 5 February (US), 18 February (Aus). INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND DIGITAL CULTURE (ICCIDC) Istanbul, Turkey 16 April. The latest is an investigation of the 15 types of raptor that breed in the highlands and islands of UK, from hen harriers in Orkney to the sparrowhawks of Warwickshire. 52) Undressed: A Brief History of UnderwearFrom corsets and crinolines to boxer shorts and bras, the V&A will be raiding the underwear draw this spring to put on a big show of smalls throughout the ages. 110) Loretta Lynn: Full CircleGiven the languid nature of her music, you’d hardly expect the country legend to rush back into the studio. LG7-19 March, Battersea Arts Centre, London. 11) The 33The rescue of 33 Chilean miners after a cave collapse in 2010 was always a certainty for a cinema adaptation, given that it was one of the most heartwarming news stories of the past 10 years. 121) Boris GodunovA new production from Richard Jones of Mussorgsky’s epoch-making opera of power, corruption, politics and community is already a mouth-watering prospect. Selections by Claire Armitstead, Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Robin Denselow, John Fordham, Lyn Gardner, Harriet Gibsone, Michael Hann, Jonathan Jones, Tim Jonze, Mark Lawson, Brian Logan, Judith Mackrell, Tshepo Mokoena, Sean O’Hagan, Alexis Petridis, Andrew Pulver, Adrian Searle, Tom Service and Oliver Wainwright. OW16 April-12 March, V&A, London. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Break Up. How are they going to feel about this wacky out-of-copyright mashup, based on the bestselling novel? 90) Shylock Is My Name by Howard JacobsonThe series of 400th-anniversary Shakespeare reimaginings continues, with the Booker laureate Howard Jacobson squaring up to The Merchant of Venice. TM4 March, Sony Legacy. MLBegins 7 January, ITV. Backing is provided by guitars and n’goni, special guests include John Paul Jones and Devendra Banhart, and highlights include an exquisite treatment of Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit. 4) Room Based on Emma Donoghue’s novel, and indirectly inspired by the Fritzl and Kampusch cases, this movie tells the terrifying story of a woman and her infant son kept captive in a tiny room. 130) Melody GardotThe transformation of Melody Gardot from a singer of demure intimacies to raw and hard-rocking blues and gospel music has swelled this unique artist’s global following. His last, at the Southbank Centre in 2015, was a masterclass in playfully amoral male sex comedy, and bodes mouthwateringly for a 2016 tour. CA9 February, Hogarth Shakespeare. Cultural events as means of enlightment and entertainment for people in the modern world are currently gowing in number, scale and variety. PB4 March (UK). PB15 January (UK), 28 January (Aus). While not the most fashionable of 19th-century French artists today, Delacroix was a key figure both for his contemporaries and for later artists including Courbet, Géricault, Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse and even Kandinsky, all of whom are included here. This exhibition promises a more intimate understanding of the 17th-century painter whose works are highlights of this collection. Coinciding with this, the Courtauld Gallery will show more than 30 of Botticelli’s amazing drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, alongside other outstanding Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, many from the time of Botticelli. 23) Hitchcock/TruffautThis very enjoyable documentary is a record of a pioneering act of cinema criticism that changed the way we think of cinema as an art form. A silent comedy sketch show with animal rights undertones, it bagged Wakenshaw his own Comedy award nomination and a legion of swooning fans in Edinburgh. MLChannel 4. Then there’s a whole day of concerts, talks, and events that celebrate Andriessen’s essential achievement in contemporary music: the composer who is still, at the age of 76, the signal inspiration for Dutch musical culture. 120) AkhnatenPhelim McDermott’s new staging of Philip Glass’s operatic meditation on religious ideology and regime change in ancient Egypt – the first in London for 30 years – follows his inspired production of Glass’s Satyagraha, also for ENO. Not forgetting the 1950s Playtex rubber girdle. AS29 January-15 May, Whitechapel Gallery, London. Now he comes in from the cinema for his first collaboration with the BBC in 29 years. The principal addition is Catherine Zeta-Jones as a glamorous reporter. 75) XThere appears to be no end to Alistair McDowall’s imagination. 91) Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald LockhartNo publishing year would be complete without a hymn to avian life. Find out what events are happening in Los Angeles, including our Heritage Month Celebrations, and other cultural events throughout the year. AP5 February (UK), 5 February (US). There’s even a specially commissioned giant canoe, in what promises to be an epic cultural encounter. 1 with $75 billion, number of world's billionaires shrinks to 1,810, Mar 2 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record, Mar 7 Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL, Mar 7 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals failed drug test for meldonium at Australian Open in January, subsequently suspended for 15 months, Mar 8 Turner Classic Movies show several of Claire Trevor’s films to honor the 106th anniversary of her birth, Mar 14 President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria, Mar 17 Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of "Car Wash" controversy, Mar 19 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Synder and starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, first premieres in Mexico City, Mar 20 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour, Mar 23 GPR investigation of Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard's skull probably has been stolen, Mar 25 Zayn's [Zayn Malik] solo debut album "Mind of Mine" is released, 1st British male artist to debut at No. Debut solo show parts follow his strategies to get in the toilets of the more lauded Stephen and. 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