Be there first: After all the brouhaha over the From Russia paintings, this is surely the show to see in its opening week. Stunning, inspirational works by the likes of Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich come to the Royal Academy from Saturday. This is jaw-dropping art you'd normally only get to see with a deep, heavy, carbon-footprint inducing flight to Russia, we're lucky enough to have it on our doorsteps until......

Finding a musical to truly like can be difficult these days. Musicals can be a bit pointless and ridiculous (hello We Will Rock You!) and often most fun if you’re a) drunk or b) intending to get drunk afterwards and thus not paying attention. However, we have finally come across not one but two musicals, currently playing in London, which are certainly worth our time. First up: Hairspray, the musical based on the 1988......

In the first of several upcoming book competitions, we've got five copies of this little gem to give away, courtesy of Snowbooks. "How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe And All That Surrounds It" lives up to its wordy, quote-derived title with over 500 pages of reminiscences and interviews with the great satirist. According to the blurb on Amazon (cos we haven't read it yet): A raft of figures from Cook's life, from colleagues to......