Going out: Cinema

You, Me & Tuscany
Out now
Where would the romcom be if everyone told the truth? When impulsive cook Anna (Halle Bailey) tells a porky pie about being engaged in order to justify her presence in an abandoned Tuscan villa, a train of events leading to true love is – naturally – set in motion. Regé-Jean Page and Nia Vardalos co-star.

The Stranger
Out now
In 1930s Algiers, a young man, Meursault, commits murder. The premise will be familiar to Albert Camus ride-or-dies, for this is indeed an adaptation of the literary giant’s debut, from François Ozon. Rising French actor Benjamin Voisin plays the unassuming antihero, with Pierre Lottin as the dodgy neighbour whose private life spells trouble.

California Schemin’
Out now
James McAvoy’s directorial debut, this comedy is based on the true story of a pair of Scottish rappers who found their careers stymied by narrow-minded record execs who kept comparing them to the Proclaimers. Naturally, they decided to pretend to be a California duo, Silibil N’ Brains, and, amazingly, it worked. Sort of.

Father Mother Sister Brother
Out now
Jim Jarmusch assembles an all-star cast including Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling and Cate Blanchett for a trio of intergenerational family dramas set in three different countries, and which won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Peaches
15 to 20 April; tour starts Dublin
After returning to the fray in February with slimy seventh album No Lube So Rude, the Canadian electro-punk maverick heads to various UK cities to wreak havoc. Expect clattering noise grenades and sweary sex bangers. Michael Cragg

Miguel
Manchester, 13 April; Birmingham, 14 April; London, 16 April
Best known for his lush, often horny R&B slow jams, LA’s Miguel returned last year with Caos, a densely textured, genre-agnostic deep dive into our turbulent times. It will be intriguing to see how songs such as RIP work alongside loved-up anthems such as Adorn and viral hit Sure Thing. MC

Neil Cowley Trio
11 to 23 April; tour starts Bradford-on-Avon
Since the mid-00s, versatile former funk pianist Neil Cowley has successfully performed punchily rockish jazz with an empathic trio, alongside solo work in contemporary classical music and electronica. The trio reconvene to tour Built on Bach, their new album exploring JS Bach’s timelessly dizzying ideas with canny input from global music, funk and jazz. John Fordham

Brodsky Quartet & William Barton
14 April, London; 15 April, Leeds; 16 April, Nottingham; 17 April, Bristol
The venerable British string quartet were founded more than 50 years ago but remain as adventurous as ever. Here they join forces with Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton for a programme that ranges across centuries and continents, featuring works by Purcell, Janáček and Stravinsky alongside music by contemporary Australian composers. Flora Willson

Going out: Art

Donald Locke
Camden Art Centre, London, to 30 August
Back in the 1950s, Guyanese-British artist Locke took all the formality of minimalism and infused it with the weight of colonial history. His approach to ceramics, painting and sculpture – combining the language of modernism with the symbols of Guyana and southern American Black culture – paved the way for a generation of artists to drag the stuffy old art world into the post-colonial future. This show has been travelling around the UK since starting at Spike Island in Bristol last year, and this is the last stop on its tour, so catch it while you can.

Paula Rego
Victoria Miro, London, 16 April to 23 May
Rego challenged everything – power structures, family dynamics, political inequality, societal cruelty – and she did it all with a big, imposing, subversive approach to figurative painting. But this ambitiously museum-quality exhibition looks at how drawing was central to the Portuguese artist’s practice, focusing on preparatory sketches, studies and archival material.

Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style
King’s Gallery, London, to 18 October
The King’s Gallery has been rifling through the attic and has found a whole load of boxes filled with Queen Elizabeth II’s old tat, and now they’re putting it all on display. This show promises an in-depth look at the sartorial inclinations of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, from her childhood, straight through the princess years style choices to her final decades in charge. From her christening robe to her coronation dress, they’ve got it all. We are not amused, but we are very chic.

Extraction
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, to 26 July
Talk about timing. Artland’s big spring exhibition is taking viewers on a filthy trip through the world of energy just as the attacks on Iran send the price of gas and oil through the stratosphere. The artists – including Marguerite Humeau with her biomorphic sci-fi sculptures, and John Gerrard with his ominous approach to digital video art – are tackling the way energy has shaped society, all in a landscape that’s haunted by traces of the shale gas industry, the petroleum economy and the renewables market. Eddy Frankel

Going out: Stage

James Acaster
14 April to 27 August; tour starts Prescot
When it comes to UK standup, nobody rivals Acaster’s combination of mainstream appeal, brainy subversion and eccentric edge. Lately, the Kettering-born comedian’s left-field badinage has even become a hit on the US talkshow circuit. See what surprises he has up his sleeve on his brand new tour. Rachel Aroesti

Scottish Ballet: Starstruck
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 16 to 18 April; touring to 9 May
There’s romance, Greek gods and backstage drama in this jazz ballet by Broadway and MGM legend Gene Kelly, set to music by Gershwin, Ravel and Chopin – and it’s as delightful as that sounds. Friday night’s performance is followed by a post-show talk with Kelly’s widow, Patricia Ward Kelly. Lyndsey Winship

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Old Vic, London, to 23 May
Clint Dyer directs a bold new staging of Ken Kesey’s novel, set inside a psychiatric facility – where Nurse Ratched (Olivia Williams) rules supreme, until new patient Randle P McMurphy blows it all apart. With a cracking cast including Aaron Pierre and Giles Terera. Miriam Gillinson

Tweedy’s Massive Circus: The Big Number 2
Old Farm, Moreton-on-Marsh, to 19 April; touring to 31 May
The standout star of Gifford’s Circus, Tweedy the clown is branching out on his own this year. Blending absurdism and a deceptive athleticism, childlike glee with a grownup twinkle in his eye, Tweedy is a one-off – and a genuine delight for all the family. MG

Staying in: Streaming

Euphoria
Sky Atlantic/Now/HBO Max, 13 April, 9pm
Using the four-year gap between seasons to time-jump – a break that also saw many cast members (Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi) become household names – Sam Levinson’s salacious high-school drama (above) reunites with its now twentysomething protagonists to flirt provocatively with themes including drug debt, sugar babies and social media sex work.

Margot’s Got Money Troubles
Apple TV, 15 April
Prolific showrunner David E Kelley turns Rufi Thorpe’s novel about a young mother making ends meet by creating out-there OnlyFans content into a zingy dramedy. Elle Fanning plays the titular Margo, Michelle Pfeiffer is her ex-Hooters waitress mum and Nick Offerman her former pro-wrestler dad.

Beef
Netflix, 16 April
Season one of Lee Sung Jin’s dark comedy anthology chronicled the road rage-induced feud between a rich, unhappy woman and a poor, unhappy man. Its second outing sustains the haves v have-nots theme by following two warring couples who work at an exclusive country club, starring Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac.

Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future
Channel 4, 15 April, 9pm
Invariably entertaining and often profoundly illuminating, Perry’s programmes about taste, identity and masculinity have turned the artist into one of our best documentarians. Now he’s crossing the pond to gain insight into the threats and benefits of AI – findings he will later transform into a custom artwork. RA

Staying in: Games

Dosa Divas: One Last Meal
Switch/Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, PC; out 14 April
In this RPG, your sister runs an evil fast-food conglomerate that wants to replace your kingdom’s food culture with slop. So you and your shambling cute robot set out to stop her, cooking up an Indian-inspired storm along the way.

Replaced
Xbox, PC; out 14 April
This extremely Blade Runner-inspired action game about a rogue AI trapped in a human body looks extremely cool: its eye-catching, detailed art sits between 2D and 3D, and appropriately the game mixes modern play with 1980s cyberpunk inspirations. Keza MacDonald

Staying in: Albums

Holly Humberstone – Cruel World
Out now
Nearly three years after her alt-pop debut, Paint My Bedroom Black, written in constant transit while on tour, the Brit-winning singer-songwriter returns with this more settled follow-up, filled with big, Chappell Roan-worthy singalong choruses. Highlights include the title track and To Love Somebody.

Wu Lyf – A Wave That Will Never Break
Out now
Fifteen years after releasing their debut album, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain, the Manchester post-rock outsiders are back with this seven-track follow-up. Produced by Spaceman 3’s Sonic Boom, who also worked with MGMT and Beach House, its led by the surprisingly euphoric-sounding Love Your Fate.

My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
Out now
Former Black Midi bassist and occasional frontman Cameron Picton’s new band explore the weirder reaches of indie-rock on this short sharp shock of a debut. Lead single Love Story takes its purposely banal lyrics about cooking dinner and launches them skywards in the song’s final third.

Squarepusher – Kammerkonzert
Out now
Tom Jenkinson’s latest album under his Squarepusher moniker is a typically invigorating affair, riffing on ambient soundscapes, orchestral moods and chunky electronic riffs. Songs such as the bass-heavy K2 Central and K7 Museum, with its unsettling harpsichord jitters, feel perfectly out of this world. MC

Staying in: Brain food

MF Doom: Long Island to Leeds
Podcast
In this podcast, BBC DJ Afrodeutsche goes in search of the reason why lauded US rapper MF Doom came to spend the final years of his life in Leeds. Conversations with locals and famous fans reveal his impact.

Access O’Keeffe
access-ok.okeeffemuseum.org
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has recently made available hi-res digital scans of the modernist painter’s artworks, as well as contemporary responses and fascinating archive materials including her photographs and letters to her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

Illuminated: Journey Through a Cow
12 April, Radio 4, 7.15pm
Part documentary and part audio experiment, this engrossing piece uses field recordings and interviews with farmers, artists and scientists to trace the journey of a cow’s digestive system – from grass through four stomachs to dung. Ammar Kalia