Critical list

TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
A reliably competent offering from Belgium’s Dardenne brothers, double Palme d’Or winners. Tense and beautifully wrought. CL
15, 95 mins

Camilla Long and Edward Porter

Theatre

THEATRE PICK — REGENERATION
A fine adaptation of the Pat Barker trilogy, powerfully performed and retaining all the ambiguity of the original. See review, in this section. CH
Royal & Derngate, Northampton, until Sept 20, then touring

TOAST
This revival of Richard Bean’s first play, set in a bread factory, casts an absolute hush — with Matthew Kelly superb as a veteran factory hand. See review, in this section. DJ
Park Theatre, London N4, until Sept 21

GUYS AND DOLLS
Frank Loesser’s 1950 musical fable of Broadway delivers lavishly, inducing a helpless haze of pleasure. MS
Chichester Festival Theatre, until Sept 21

THE CRUCIBLE
Yaël Farber’s version of Arthur Miller’s witch-hunt classic is so powerful, it feels conjured rather than directed. MS
Old Vic, London SE1, until Sat

Christopher Hart, David Jays and Maxie Szalwinska

Art

ART PICK — LATE TURNER
Were JMW Turner’s last years a period of unfettered experimentalism or simply of senile daubings? As it did with Matisse’s cutouts, the Tate seeks to help us understand the painter’s final phase as a creative high.
Tate Britain, London SW1, from Wed until Jan 25

RYAN GANDER
Wildly successful on the global art circuit, Gander has a homecoming of sorts, returning to the city where he studied. Expect old and new conceptual works.
Manchester Art Gallery, until next Sun

ANTHONY CARO: THE LAST SCULPTURES
Caro worked right up until his death last October, aged 89. In these final works, he experimented with Perspex, integrating it with his more usual wood and rusting steel.
Annely Juda Fine Art, London W1, from Thu until Oct 25

TITIAN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF VENETIAN PAINTING
A handful of Titian masterpieces are shown alongside works by his contemporaries Bassano, Lotto, Tintoretto and Veronese.
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, until next Sun

FOLKESTONE TRIENNIAL
The artists flooding the seaside town include Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Yoko Ono, who has kindly conceived an “instruction” for the good people of Folkestone to follow, visible in the Quarterhouse. Dare you disobey?
Various venues, until Nov 2

FRANK AUERBACH
Lucian Freud’s fine collection of his friend’s paintings and drawings, gifted to the nation, is on show in London before being dispersed across the country.
Tate Britain, London SW1, until Nov 9

BERND & HILLA BECHER
Alluring pictures of factories and other industrial structures by the influential German photographers, in the first London retrospective of their work since 1998.
Sprüth Magers, London W1, until Oct 4

Louis Wise

Comedy

COMEDY PICK — ROB NEWMAN
The comic attempts to prove his new theory of evolution — using Laurel and Hardy’s hand-pump railway trolley, mirror neurons and antelope squirrels as proof.
Square Chapel, Halifax, Sat

RUBY WAX
Wax tackles the issue of surviving the 21st century, using her recent master’s in cognitive therapy from Oxford as a manual.
Haymarket, Basingstoke, Sat

TOM STADE
Stade unpicks the Sliding Doors/chaos theory of life by imagining the possible routes he could have taken, using audience members as younger versions of himself.
Lowry, Salford, tonight

CARDINAL BURNS
The Burns boys drip filth, darkness, obscenity and tomfoolery, unleashing a series of skits with those characters off the telly that won them that Bafta. Makes a nice change.
Soho Theatre, London W1, from Mon until Sept 20

Stephen Armstrong

Dance

DANCE PICK — DRACULA
Northern Ballet revives David Nixon’s spectacular production inspired by Bram Stoker’s novel, with Victorian gothic designs. It’s set to music by Schnittke, Rachmaninov, Arvo Pärt and Michael Daugherty.
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, Tue-Sat

ELIXIR FESTIVAL
A weekend celebrating the talents of older artists at the Wells. Those still limber include the Swedish choreographer Mats Ek, who will be performing a duet with his wife, Ana Laguna, and the Pina Bausch veteran Dominique Mercy, dancing a piece by Pascal Merighi.
Sadler’s Wells, London EC1, from Fri until Sept 15

David Dougill

Pop

POP PICK — PHARRELL
He defined the sound of the Noughties and seems set to control this decade, too. Catch Mr Williams in Manchester and at the iTunes Festival (see below) on Wednesday, supported by Jungle.
Phones4u Arena, Manchester, Tue

CATE LE BON
The excellent Welsh-born singer-songwriter is now based in LA, but she’s come back to visit for a bit, to see what rain looks like.
O2 Academy, Oxford, Tue; Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, Wed; Koko, London NW1, Thu

LUKE SITAL-SINGH
Supports his recently released, raved-about debut album, The Fire Inside. Has “feelings”.
Scala, London N1, Wed; O2 Academy, Oxford, Thu; Gorilla, Manchester, Sat

SOHN
The singer-songwriter and producer (he worked on Banks’s album; see review, page 22) plays tracks from his own strong solo offering, Tremors.
O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London W12, Fri; Haunt, Brighton, Sat

ITUNES FESTIVAL
More A-listers fill out Apple’s music fest — from Calvin Harris to Robert Plant to Pharrell to Elbow.
Roundhouse, London NW1, until Sept 30

Louis Wise

Classical

CLASSICAL PICK — OTELLO
David Alden’s staging for English National Opera sees Stuart Skelton take his bow in Verdi’s most demanding tenor role. Leah Crocetto sings Desdemona; Edward Gardner conducts. HC
Coliseum, London WC2, Sat

ANNA NICOLE
Eva-Maria Westbroek is back as the tragicomic American celebrity for this revival of Richard Jones’s dazzling Royal Opera production of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s sellout work. Antonio Pappano is the conductor. HC
ROH, London WC2, Thu, Sat

GUILLAUME TELL
David Kempster stars in Welsh National Opera’s production of Rossini’s four-act French epic. Gisela Stille and Barry Banks sing the star-crossed lovers under David Pountney’s direction. HC
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Fri

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The orchestra offer an all-British Proms programme: Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Greensleeves and Symphony No 4, Harrison Birtwistle’s Exody and Walton’s Viola Concerto. PD
Royal Albert Hall, London SW7, Wed

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Franz Welser-Möst conducts two evening Proms, each containing a Brahms overture and symphony, and a UK premiere by the clarinetist Jörg Widmann. PD
Royal Albert Hall, London SW7, tonight, Mon

ALBAN GERHARDT AND CECILE LICAD
The cellist and pianist perform Fauré’s Sonata No 1, Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No 1 and Rachmaninov’s Sonata in G minor. PD
Wigmore Hall, London W1, Fri

Hugh Canning and Paul Driver

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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY
The show for all musical-lovers, created by Gerard Alessandrini, transfers with its crack cast from the Menier to the West End. Snort away at brilliant, irreverent takes on everything from Once to Wicked via The Book of Mormon.
Vaudeville, London WC2, from Tue until Nov 22

CHWALFA
Adapted from T Rowland Hughes’s book on the history of the Penrhyn slate quarry’s Great Strike, Chwalfa, meaning “upheaval”, will be the first production staged at the Theatr Bryn Terfel.
Theatr Bryn Terfel, Bangor, Sept 17-27

TRANSCENDER SERIES
A festival dedicated to “ecstatic, devotional and psychedelic music from across the globe” seems the perfect antidote to long autumn nights. Don’t miss Sir John Tavener’s last main concert work, Flood of Beauty, premiered by the Britten Sinfonia.
Barbican, London EC2, Sept 26-Oct 1

FKA TWIGS
The Gloucestershire singer and trained dancer Tahliah Barnett embarks on her most extensive tour to date. Her striking style, futuristic R&B sound and provocative lyrics are not to be missed.
Dome, Brighton, Oct 2, then touring

THE CORONATION OF POPPEA
Opera North’s first production of Monteverdi’s stylish revenge tragedy will be conducted by the baroque music specialist Laurence Cummings. The American mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy will play Poppea.
Grand Theatre, Leeds, Oct 4-30, then touring

GAME MASTERS
Sure to invoke button-bashing nostalgia, this show explores the work of some of the world’s most innovative video-game designers, including Shigeru Miyamoto (Donkey Kong) and Toru Iwatani (Pac-Man). There are plenty of games to play, too.
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Dec 5-Apr 20