From The Beast to The Acolyte: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Going out: Cinema

The Beast
Out now
Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour) and George MacKay (Femme) star as the couple at the heart of this arthouse sci-fi epic, loosely based on Henry James’s 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle and spanning three time periods, from director Bertrand Bonello (House of Tolerance).

Young Woman and the Sea
Out now
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the 21 miles from England to France. Now, nearly 100 years later, director Joachim Rønning is bringing her story to the big screen, with Daisy Ridley as the Olympic gold medallist who conquered the Channel.

My National Gallery, London
Out 4 June
This doc has assembled a glittering grab bag of celebs, from Claudia Winkleman to Michael Palin, via Jacqueline Wilson and Princess Eugenie, to each share a favourite art work in the National Gallery, talking about what their chosen piece means to them.

Sting
Out now
When lonely 12-year-old New Yorker Charlotte decides to nurture a spider that emerges from an egg that falls from the sky, it’s all fun and games – until it isn’t. Fans of Little Shop of Horrors might be able to guess the rough trajectory of subsequent events – Charlotte’s Web this isn’t. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi
Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham, 6 June
Harpists are rare in jazz, but one of the most revered was Alice Coltrane, wife of jazz revolutionary John. Polish-Ukrainian harp virtuoso Alina Bzhezhinska and Coltrane-esque saxophonist Tony Kofi recreate the couple’s magic. John Fordham

Blond Eckbert
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 7 June
Judith Weir is a featured composer at this summer’s Aldeburgh festival, which opens with a new production of her third full-length opera, first seen at English National Opera in 1994, and based on a short story by 18th-century German writer Ludwig Tieck. Robin Norton-Hale directs for English Touring Opera, with Simon Wallfisch as Eckbert and Flora McIntosh as his wife Berthe. Andrew Clements

LA Priest
1 to 8 June; tour starts Salford
Having recorded 2023’s Fase Luna in a South American jungle, former Late of the Pier frontman Sam Eastgate decamped to his shed in Wales to create last month’s EP, the psych-pop opus La Fusion. Both will be given an airing during this week-long tour that includes no jungles or sheds. Michael Cragg

Liam Gallagher
1 to 28 June; tour starts Sheffield
The Little James hitmaker returns to UK arenas to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oasis’s debut album Definitely Maybe. The next best thing to a reunion will be to see Liam growl through the record in full, plus some B-sides, to honour “the most important album of the 90s bar none”. MC

Going out: Art

Johnny Vegas and Emma Rodgers
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, to 31 March
Liverpool sculptor Rodgers, whose public commissions include the city’s statue of Cilla Black and a giant Liver Bird, collaborates with comedian and potter Vegas in a show that entwines their preoccupations. Both are fascinated by the symbolism of flight, and their work is built around the myth of doomed birdman Icarus.

John Lyons
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, to 25 August
Strange beings abound in the paintings of this Caribbean British artist and poet whose art and writing illuminate the folk tales of Trinidad. Expressive brushwork and magic realist colours enflame his fantastical scenes yet he has a toughness that prevents them drifting off into whimsy. There are shades of Max Beckmann.

Vanessa Bell
The Courtauld, London, to 6 October
The Bloomsbury artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, gets an intimate focus amid the art that inspired her. Bell and friends were among the first people in Britain to appreciate the vision of Cézanne, in whose paintings the Courtauld specialises. Her portraits and still lifes are sensitive responses to French modernism.

Reverb
180 Studios, London to 28 September
Whatever your taste in music or art, you are likely to find something that suits in this echoing subterranean wonderland. It’s a retrospective of London sound art instigators The Vinyl Factory, with a new installation by Theaster Gates, artworks by Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller and more, plus 100 vinyl pressings by artists from Nan Goldin to Fred Again. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

A Lovely Weekend
Fairfield Social Club, Manchester, to 9 June
This three-day comedy fest looks especially enticing thanks to a carefully curated lineup of great newcomers (Kyrah Gray, Paddy Young) and the more established likes of Amy Gledhill and Olga Koch. Rachel Aroesti

A Hunger Artist
Old Fire Station, Oxford, 4 & 5 June
Choreographer Arthur Pita and ex-Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson are reunited following The Metamorphosis for another Kafka adaptation – this time his final book about an artist who locks himself in a cage and starves himself as a public spectacle. Lyndsey Winship

A Child of Science
Bristol Old Vic, 5 June to 6 July
Tom Felton stars in this new production about the pioneers behind IVF. Bruntwood prize winner Gareth Farr’s play explores the true story behind the way Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards and Jean Purdy changed the world – and the many obstacles they had to overcome. Kate Wyver

Wedding Band: A Love Hate Story in Black and White
Lyric Hammersmith, London, to 29 June
Alice Childress’s 1966 play sees a Black seamstress fall in love with a white baker in South Carolina during the first world war. This revival is courtesy of Monique Touko, after the success of her production of School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play. KW