Going out: Gigs

Paul van Dyk
SWG3, Glasgow, Boxing Day
Dance music behemoth Cream involves Glasgow for a Boxing Day blowout headlined by famend German DJ, producer and musician Paul van Dyk. The highest-tier supporting forged consists of Chicago home pioneer Felix da Housecat and trance experimentalist Giuseppe Ottaviani. Put together to sweat off any residual hangovers and mince pie extra. Michael Cragg

Piers Lane
Wigmore Corridor, London, Wednesday 28 December
Most classical venues go into hibernation between Christmas and New Yr, however the Wigmore Corridor makes a degree of filling the hole. The pianist Piers Lane provides the primary of its Christmas week concert events: a programme that options Grieg’s Holberg Suite and Liszt’s Christmas Tree Suite, along with sonatas by each composers. Andrew Clements

Liane Carroll’s Chilly Turkey!
Ronnie Scott’s, London, Boxing Day (two exhibits) & Tuesday 27 December
Singer-keyboardist Liane Carroll is without doubt one of the UK’s most revered and affectionately regarded exponents of a repertoire embracing swing, blues, gospel and soul. These post-Christmas dates at Ronnie’s are a daily, and all the time rejuvenating, date within the jazz calendar. John Fordham

Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Princes Road Gardens, Edinburgh, Friday 30 December
Billed as being for “disco divas of all ages”, this pre-Hogmanay occasion, headlined by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and her travelling, sequin-heavy disco occasion, is the right warmup for the subsequent evening’s New Yr’s Eve bash (headlined by the Pet Store Boys). Help comes from Clare Grogan’s Altered Photographs. MC

Going out: Artwork

JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana
Tate Liverpool, to 4 June
Snow and ice abound on this highly effective collection of a few of Turner’s eeriest work . His Arctic whaling scenes take you to the North Pole – however there’s no sight of Santa or his elves. As an alternative whaling crews trapped in ice greet the pale solar by frozen mist, to Fofana’s soundtrack.

Hieroglyphs
British Museum, London, to 19 February
Magic for the vacations from the traditional tradition whose spells have haunted millennia. Historic Egyptian writings had been understood as magical even earlier than they had been deciphered: their decoding revealed the efficacious phrases of texts reminiscent of The E book of the Lifeless. This exhibition takes you on a journey from marvel to understanding.

The Residing Assortment
Towner Artwork Gallery, Eastbourne, to 31 August
Celebrating its centenary in 2023, this south coast gallery begins proceedings with a survey of its assortment. Loads right here to make you button your coat, from William Nicholson’s windswept farm lit by chilly wintry daylight to an Ivon Hitchens portray of the sky damaged into gray and blue daubs over dappled earth.

Winslow Homer
Nationwide Gallery, London, to eight January
Darkish storms rage on this exhibition of one of many US’s defining artists. Homer painted the ocean as a savage inhuman maelstrom filled with monsters. His depictions of sharks are scary, however simply as doom laden are his scenes of rescue and catastrophe within the raging, ice-cold Atlantic – they arrive from winter’s coronary heart. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

Let’s All Dance the Nutcracker
Sadler’s Wells: Lilian Baylis Studio, London, Christmas Eve to New Yr’s Eve
Ballet for the youngest of audiences (infants and upwards) that prides itself on clear storytelling. That is an edited down model of the perennial Christmas ballet with Tchaikovsky’s much-loved music that matches Clara, the Mouse King and the Sugar Plum Fairy right into a 50-minute, “kid-sized” package deal. Lyndsey Winship

Carl Donnelly
Up the Creek, London, Friday
South London establishment Up the Creek is thought for internet hosting a brutally quickfire open-mic evening – in addition to the odd famous person eager to check new materials. But it surely additionally caters for individuals who choose a protected pair of palms, such because the comic Donnelly – one of the vital seasoned acts on the circuit – could be very a lot within the first class. Be a part of him this twixmas for some deceptively easy-going observational fare. Rachel Aroesti

Orlando
Garrick theatre, London, to 25 February
Neil Bartlett adapts Virginia Woolf’s fantastically slippery novel a couple of younger nobleman who catapults by 4 centuries of historical past, and switches gender alongside the best way. With a star-making flip from Emma Corrin . Miriam Gillinson

Claus: The Musical
The Lowry, Salford, to eight January
Based mostly on The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, written by L Frank Baum (The Great Wizard of Oz). Quirky story a couple of younger Santa, deserted as a child and adopted by a wooden nymph. With music from Andy Collyer. MG

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Staying in: Streaming

Marie Antoinette
Thursday, 9pm, BBC Two & iPlayer
One other leftfield – if somewhat much less outrageous – tackle royalty comes courtesy of Deborah Davis, AKA the multi-award-winning screenwriter of The Favorite. There was no scarcity of fictional portrayals of the final queen of France, but when Davis’s earlier work is something to go by, this drama could possibly be the sparkiest, cleverest and most fascinating but.

Prince Andrew: The Musical
Wednesday, 9pm, Channel 4 & All 4
Following the bizarre sycophancy of The Crown’s newest season, this wildly irreverent Comedian Strip-esque biopic seems like a welcome corrective. Comic Kieran Hodgson writes and stars because the not-so-grand Duke of York alongside Munya Chawawa as Prince Charles, Harry Enfield as Blair and drag queen Baga Chipz as Thatcher.

With out Sin
Wednesday, ITVX
Vicky McClure ditches the action-woman schtick to play a mom who confronts the person apparently answerable for the brutal killing of her teenage daughter on this new drama. Each a nail-biting homicide thriller and a delicate examine of grief, it reunites McClure with Johhny Harris, who was completely chilling as her abusive father in This Is England ’86.

Mayflies
Tuesday, 9pm, BBC One & iPlayer
Additionally sloughing off the police work for extra emotional fare is McClure’s Line of Responsibility compadre Martin Compston, who leads this adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s 2020 novel – a young story of male friendship set between the Eighties and the current day – alongside Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen. RA

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Staying in: Video games

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Out now, Nintendo Change
The perennial Nintendo Christmas household favorite has simply been up to date with model new programs. Get ’em downloaded in time to avoid wasting your self from Charades.

Sports activities Story
Out now, Nintendo Change
A form of cross between sports activities sport and 90s pixel-art function taking part in sport, this indie effort has you attending the Hogwarts of sports activities. Keza MacDonald

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Staying In: Albums

SZA – SOS
Out now
5 lengthy years after her critically adored debut, Ctrl, and with only a smattering of singles within the interim, honey-voiced R&B famous person Solána Rowe lastly releases its follow-up. The proper soundtrack to the emotional winter wallow, lead single Shirt is a fancy paean to self-preservation.

Little Simz – No Thank You
Out now
It has been a spectacular 12 months for rapper Simbiatu Ajikawo, AKA Little Simz. Her fourth album, 2021’s Generally I May Be Introvert crashed into the UK Prime 5, incomes her a tardy Brit for greatest new artist, in addition to the Mercury prize. She cements that mainstream success with this sometimes multilayered fifth album.

Ab-Soul – Herbert
Out now
Taking a equally laid-back strategy to music-making as labelmate and former collaborator SZA, this album from rapper Ab-Soul arrives six years after his final, Do What Thou Wilt. Manufacturing comes from DJ Dahi (Drake, Vampire Weekend) and Sounwave (Kendrick Lamar, FKA twigs), who conjures up latest single Gang’Nem’s swirling atmospherics.

Alicia Keys – Santa Child
Out now
The 15-time Grammy winner (under) joins the more and more busy Christmas albums market with this 11-track assortment of previous classics (Schubert’s Ave Maria) and comparatively new (Completely satisfied Xmas (Conflict Is Over) yuletide hits. As an additional present, there’s additionally a handful of originals, together with the latest single December Again 2 June. MC

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Staying in: Mind meals

Branson
Sunday, Sky Documentaries
This four-part collection on the life and profession of Richard Branson has confirmed a priceless perception not solely into the entrepreneur however into our fascination with billionaires and their egos. This week’s closing episode charts Branson’s area race.

Add to Cart
Podcast
With January gross sales across the nook, this energetic podcast from comedian Kulap Vilaysack and journalist SuChin Pak analyses the broader societal forces driving our procuring habits, from make-up merchandise to the facility of illustration.

Literature Clock
On-line
A literary counterpart to the artist Christian Marclay’s video work The Clock, this ingenious web site from Johannes Enevoldsen compiles passages from books that reference the precise time you’re studying them. Meander from Dave Eggers scenes to Jules Verne. Ammar Kalia