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Film
You Don’t Nomi
From universally derided bomb to critically reappraised camp classic, Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls has been on a journey over the last 25 years: Jeffrey McHale’s documentary traces that trajectory in raucous detail. Available online from Friday. Guy Lodge
Art
Sights of Wonder: Photographs from the 1862 Royal Tour
Pyramids, pashas, Persia, the Parthenon and the prince: marvellous sepia images taken by the great Victorian photographer Francis Bedford touring the world with the future Edward VII. Online at the Barber Institute from Friday. Laura Cumming
Pop
Chloe x Halle
Following a delay out of “solidarity to all the beautiful black lives lost”, the singing R&B siblings release their second album, Ungodly Hour. Out Friday. Kitty Empire
Classical
Live from Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall’s live series continues with cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen (tomorrow); violinist Hyeyoon Park and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor (Tuesday); pianist Paul Lewis (Wednesday); flautist Adam Walker and pianist James Baillieu (Thursday); baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Joseph Middleton (Friday). Live on BBC Radio 3 at 1pm and in HD video online. Fiona Maddocks
Comedy
Mark Thomas - Showtime from the Frontline (live stream)
Having already entertained fans during lockdown with a live stream of his 2011 show Bravo Figaro, comedian Mark Thomas will be doing a live rendition of his acclaimed 2018 set Showtime from the Frontline. Watch the ticketed show about running a comedy club in a refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Jenin on YouTube on Tuesday at 7.30pm. Kadish Morris
Theatre
Lockdown Theatre festival
Bertie Carvel’s idea that plays with runs cancelled or cut short could be broadcast launches next weekend, promising new life not only to truncated productions but to radio drama. During the launch weekend (13-14 June) Radio 3 will transmit Rockets and Blue Lights (Saturday at 8pm) and Love Love Love (Sunday at 7.30pm); on Radio 4, Shoe Lady can be heard on Saturday (3pm) and The Mikvah Project on Sunday (3pm). Susannah Clapp
Books
Puffin Festival of Big Dreams
Party blowers at the ready! The world’s biggest children’s book publisher is celebrating its 80th birthday with a free, week-long online festival of draw-offs, quizzes and workshops. Featuring top authors including Jeff Kinney, Jacqueline Wilson, Nadia Shireen and even some real puffins. Online from tomorrow until Sunday. Imogen Carter
Dance
Push – Russell Maliphant Company
Where some companies have concentrated on sharing properly filmed works, choreographer Russell Maliphant has opened his digital archive to share pieces that were filmed for private use but are incredibly revealing in dance terms. Two versions of his 2005 classic are now available via his YouTube channel: one featuring himself and Sylvie Guillem, the other performed by Julie Guibert and Alexander Varona. Both are utterly riveting. Sarah Crompton
Art
Looking for Rembrandt
A compelling documentary combining biography, art history and extensive close-ups of Rembrandt’s work, homing in on The Night Watch, which was painted while his wife, Saskia, was dying. On BBC 4 on Wednesday at 12.45am. LC
Theatre
Adventures With the Painted People
David Greig’s new play is multilayered, quirky rom-com about an encounter between a Roman and a Pict somewhere near Pitlochry around 86AD. Part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s “Shades of Tay” project, plans for its staging have been postponed until 2021. So now the two-hander, starring Olivier Huband and Kirsty Stuart, will instead receive its world premiere on Radio 3 (tonight at 7.30, then available on iPlayer). The scheduled post-show talk has become a post-broadcast, online discussion with Greig and director Elizabeth Newman to be chaired by this writer. Clare Brennan
