Philip Pullman will help choose this year’s winners of award set up in memory of the keen young writer who died aged 13 in 2021The Martha Mills young writers’ prize has opened for entries on the theme of “A Secret”.The competition, run by the London Review Bookshop, invites 11- to 14-year-olds living in the UK to submit up to 500 words of any type of...

O2 Arena, London There’s some magic amid the cheese as the trio revisit a stacked catalogue of hits – and gamely give their old choreography a goIt’s difficult to say exactly what Take That are going for on their This Life tour: a 41-date behemoth that has shifted more than 700,000 tickets. Video interstitials show the three remaining members doing...

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Two of Mendelssohn’s symphonies plus his second piano concerto were almost too much of a good thing, but not when played with such delicacy and spiritThree nights, three concertos and five symphonies: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is approaching its deep dive into Mendelssohn with the kind of intensity this still-slightly-underrated...

Soho theatre, London Phil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a performer is undeniableClown is the hippest thing in comedy right now, thanks in no small part to the American act Doctor Brown, who launched its new wave by winning the...

Rapper trails summer release of The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) with a fictional crime report suggesting that the antic character will meet a violent endOne of the great alter egos in pop could be meeting a grisly end, as Eminem announces his first album since 2020: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).Set for release on an unspecified date...

The 27-year-old American actor has gone from the Disney channel to new classy arthouse threesome drama Challengers, via a massive blockbuster and a hot-button TV series. So can she convince as an Oscar contender?Actor-model-producer Zendaya Coleman – universally known mononymously, without her last name – has never been short of attention, but it feels...