Things to do in London this weekend, from Billie Eilish to Bill Bailey

Sadler’s Wells East — until February 9

The caller Sadler’s Wells East opens this week, a behemoth of a theatre dedicated to dance. The inaugural performance, Our Mighty Groove, turns the auditorium into an immersive dancefloor, blurring the lines betwixt assemblage and performers. Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu’s blend of nine styles is “fused with African and modern dance” for the main show; erstwhile it ends, instrumentality astir and fto your hairsbreadth down astatine the after-party.

White Cube Bermondsey — until April 6

Who is Theaster Gates? A professor, an artist, a sculptor, a curator, a translator, an archivist? Yes: each of that and more. His latest enactment — 1965: Malcolm successful Winter: A Translation Exercise — honours the archives of Ei Nagata, a Japanese writer who was a fewer feet distant from Malcolm X erstwhile helium was assassinated successful New York. Nagata committed the remainder of his beingness to preserving the activist’s legacy. Gates’s large-scale installations and films proceed this archival work, exploring blackness successful Japan and Japanese culture.

One for those who are sick of each eastbound London spot being £100 a caput for immoderate natty vino and a azygous lamb chop. Slurp Noodles is simple: good, true-to-form Thai dishes, focused connected authentic nam tok noodle soup. Try kuaijab, a peppery pork crockery spiked with duck blood, oregon lad na, heavy noodles topped with an adjacent thicker gravy. Delicious, and a bargain here. Downstairs is Dang’s, serving spicy fried chickenhearted and immoderate expertly made cocktails.

Fans inactive missing Motherland tin capable the void with this follow-up. Lucy Punch returns arsenic Amanda, navigating the trials and tribulations of parenthood. Only this time, she’s besides navigating divorced life, and has moved from beauteous Queen’s Park to somewhat little beauteous South Harlesden (“Darling, fto maine successful earlier I get mugged,” deadpans her mother, a joyful Joanna Lumley). As crisp and cringe-inducing arsenic ever.

This imaginable Oscar-winner — it has been nominated for champion archetypal screenplay — charts the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics, erstwhile Israeli athletes were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists. Viewers are thrust wrong the ABC Sports workplace arsenic the journalists there, wholly unequipped to woody with the gravity of unfolding events, effort to navigate the quality portion becoming unwitting players successful the precise negotiations they are broadcasting. Gripping hardly cuts it; modern parallels are near to the audience.

As the satellite churns with Donald Trump astatine the reins successful America — not to notation the crises successful Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East — this publication is alternatively timely. In the cheery words of the blurb we “are entering a caller epoch of planetary cataclysm”. You can’t ever unplug from world — and heavyweight intelligence Robert D Kaplan is an perfect usher to the madness and (ray of light) the solutions.

Missed this atmospheric debut medium from past week? Get up to velocity with Kathryn Mohr’s critically acclaimed release. It’s discordant and occasionally melancholic — possibly partially due to the fact that the task was written astatine a originative residency successful an abandoned food mill successful Iceland. Bizarre, eh? Still, there’s a richness of texture to the record, the Oakland-born creator piling earthy lyrics and ambient grunge into each song. Alt-rock astatine its modern best. Mohr is 1 to archer radical you knew astir earlier she was cool.

Giacco’s Bar — February 9

Up-and-coming London cook Jemma Harrison is hosting a pop-up astatine Giacco’s Bar successful Highbury. The archetypal serving was a bona fide deed past play and the 2nd day is this Sunday, for luncheon and dinner. Harrison, who has Camille and Westerns Laundry connected her CV, volition beryllium serving latkes with saccharine radicchio and sheep’s cheese, duck schnitzel successful mushroom condiment and a peculiar fried chickenhearted challah rotation (only 15 of these each day). Remember the name.

Ronnie Scott’s — March 20

Joe Webb is simply a softly spoken, self-effacing young Welshman who conscionable happens to beryllium a monster connected the piano. Over the past mates of years, helium has proved to beryllium the astir fiercely talented jazz pianist of his generation, capable to play with dizzying dexterity and astatine a velocity that by rights should beryllium illegal. He is Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Franz Liszt rolled into one, but helium looks similar the mislaid subordinate of Oasis. His debut album, Hamstrings & Hurricanes, was a captious deed and this amusement promises to beryllium a blinder.