From “The Mummy” by Lee Cronin to Zane: Your Complete Entertainment Guide for Next Week | culture

Checkout: cinema

Lee Cronin The Mummy
Out now
You may know what a mummy is, but do you know what Lee Cronin is? Let us help: He’s the Irish director responsible for the effective indie horror film The Hole in the Ground and the highest-grossing entry in the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rises. In his version of this horror classic, journalist (Jack Reynor) and his wife (Laia Costa) reunite with their daughter who went missing in the desert eight years ago, with horrific consequences.

Wizard of the Kremlin
Out now
Jude Law is Vladimir Putin, with Paul Dano as fictional doctor Vadim Baranov in a new thriller from director Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper). Based on the l’Académie française award-winning debut novel by Giuliano da Empoli.

Mirror No. 3
Out now
German director Christian Petzold returns with a new film (the title refers to Ravel’s piano solo) starring his frequent collaborator Paula Beer, who plays a classical piano student recovering in a rural area after a dramatic car accident.

Glenrothan
Out now
Brian Cox (the succession person, not the physicist) takes on the role of first-time director to helm this comedy about an estranged brother (Alan Cumming) who returns to Scotland after 30 years in order to patch things up with his older brother (Cox). Catherine Bray

Checkout: Gigs

Amarai
Roundhouse, London, 23 April
This one-off British date from the Ghanaian-American singer promises a fully immersive journey through Afrobeats, alternative pop and techno. Also worth noting before leaving the house: there are strict rules for all-black clothing. Michael Cragg

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 22
A program of early 20th century English classics by Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Peter Warlock as you’ve never heard them before. In collaboration with immersive experience providers Squidsoup, the leading instrumental band performs using a specially designed 3D Concrete Voids sound system, transforming the venue itself into another musical instrument. Flora Wilson

Dry cleaning
Touring through April 25; The tour begins Dublin
Released in January, Secret Love continues Dry Cleaning’s love affair with glam art rock, fusing post-punk’s passion for noise with singer Florence Shaw’s hypnotic spoken word narration. This UK tour should also see them debut new single Sliced ​​By a Fingernail. MC

Ronin Nick Bartsch
King’s Place, London, April 23; Turner Sims, Southampton, April 24
The unique Swiss pianist and composer’s ensemble has spent 25 years practicing what he calls “Zen funk” – Steve Raichian’s minimalist music, Japanese ritual music, prog, jazz, electro and beyond. They’re touring their ninth album, Spin, a brilliant mix of experimentation and accessibility. John Fordham

Checkout: art

Michaela Yearwood Dunn
The Whitworth, Manchester, Until October 18
It’s all woven together in Michaela Yearwood-Dunn’s art: painting, ceramics, sound, poetry, and memoir writing. For this, her first institutional exhibition in the UK, she has created a stunning, painterly-focused and fully immersive installation about colonial history, religious institutions, and the process of collective and personal liberation.

Katarina Gross
White Cube Bermondsey, London, From April 22 to May 31
For her first show at White Cube in nearly 25 years, German Gross was inspired by an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, seeing in it a sense of urgency and intensity that reflects her own style of art. This show will focus on immersive sculptures and works that will be sprinkled on site on all walls of the gallery.

Black Music: A British Story
V&A East, LondonFrom April 18 to January 3
The influence of black music on wider British culture is enormous. This exhibition – the first at the new Victoria and Albert Museum in Stratford’s Olympic Park – will be a joyful celebration of black British music and the people who made it, bringing together archival materials, photography, multimedia installations and musical instruments.

Shaquille White
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Until August 31
Young Wolverhampton-born artist Shaquille White’s Black Birds Singing in the Dead of Night is a dark, atmospheric painting – and it has just been purchased by the Wolverhampton Art Gallery for its permanent collection. Now they are displaying it alongside a few other recent paintings in a homecoming celebration for the 26-year-old painter. Eddie Frankel

Checkout: platform

Joe Tracini
April 20 to July 1; The tour begins in Norwich
He may have followed his father, Joe Pasquale, onto the panto circuit, but Tracini’s stand is miles away from the light, frothy entertainment provided by his father. The 37-year-old’s new show is a brutally honest show called 10 Things I Hate About Myself, which details his experiences with borderline personality disorder, drug addiction and debilitating panic attacks. Rachel Aroesti

I saw the devil at 7-Eleven
Soho Theatre, London, Tuesday 21 April to 2 May
Christopher Brett Bailey can turn a theatrical monologue into an out-of-body experience. He has now adapted his novella into a one-man show about a chance encounter with the devil (at a 7-Eleven). Miriam Gillinson

Driftwood
The other venue, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 30 May
Martina Laird’s debut play is about self-determination and the search for family, and is set in the Caribbean in the 1950s. Trinidad is on the verge of political independence, and a newcomer to the downtown gentlemen’s club is about to blow things up. mg

Leap dance festival
Various venues, Liverpool, from 24 April to 9 May
Liverpool’s annual dance festival kicks off with Kathy Waller’s Dance, featuring an inclusive line-up of disabled and non-disabled dancers and MOBO Award-winning jazz musician Louis Wright. There are also youth and community dances, cabaret, workshops and a competition for emerging dance artists as well as performances from Phoenix Dance and Akeim Toussaint Buck. Lindsey Winship