THEATRE Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee’s unflinching portrait of a marriage is one of the most embattled, harrowing and bitterly funny in all drama. This superb new Broadway production also boasts Kathleen Turner as Martha — a part she was born to play. CH
Apollo, W1
ART Gothic Nightmares The Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) is at the centre of this odd exhibition exploring the early-Romantic taste for the supernatural. But not just ghosties are here — fairies float about, too, especially in illustrations to Shakespeare. Blake and Gillray are the strongest artists on show; Fuseli was self-taught, and it shows.
Tate Britain, SW1, from Wed until May 1
OPERA Der Fliegende Holländer Bryn Terfel returns to the company where his career began to sing his first Dutchman in David Pountney’s production of Wagner’s first masterpiece. Annalena Persson is Senta, with Ian Storey as Erik and Gidon Saks as Daland. Carlo Rizzi conducts.
Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Fri
DANCE Rumble Made in Germany, and an award-winner on the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, this clever hip-hop and street-dance interpretation of Romeo and Juliet as an inner-city gangland war, with music by Alexandru Catona, is on an extensive UK tour.
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, Mon; MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling, Sat
COMEDY Mark Steel With Steel’s new series of lectures starting on BBC4, and his tour kicking off tonight, the last of the old guard of political stand-up proves there’s fight in him yet.
Y Theatre, Leicester, Sat
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CONCERTS City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conducts his orchestra in Debussy’s La Mer and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and the tenor John Daszak.
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Wed, Sat
POP African Soul Rebels A chance to fall in love with the effortless funk of Malian duo Amadou and Mariam, who are joined on a diverse triple bill by the Algerian folk balladeer Souad Massi and the controversial Sudanese rapper Emmanuel Jal.
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Fri; Lighthouse, Poole, Sat