From The Drama to Malcolm in the Middle: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

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R-Patz and Zandaya star in a romcom with bite, and the lovably dysfunctional family is back in a revival of the turn-of-the-millennium comedy hitThe DramaOut now It is hard to imagine a more zeitgeist-flavoured proposition than Zendaya and Robert Pattinson starring in a dark romantic comedy from A24 – and frankly we are here for it.The pair play a couple whose relationship is tested by the revelation of brand new information during their engagement.Directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario).Kim Novak’s VertigoOut now The notional star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterly ode to obsession is James Stewart, but it is the image of Kim Novak in her iconic dual role that endures.Documentarian Alexandre O Philippe sits down with the actor as she discusses her career in general and her iconic work on Vertigo in particular.

The Super Mario Galaxy MovieOut now Make way, multiplexes, for the big Easter holiday family animation: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key are back, in voice form, in a Super Mario adventure set in outer space, with new elements including the introduction of Bowser Jr, voiced by Uncut Gems director Benny Safdie.FuzeOut now The work of Scottish director David Mackenzie (Hell Or High Water) is hard to pigeonhole, but he certainly seems to have been on a run of thrillers in recent times: this is his latest, and it sees Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and Gugu Mbatha-Raw caught up in chaos following the discovery of an unexploded second world war bomb in London.Catherine BrayJessie JTuesday to 14 April; tour starts Birmingham After a turbulent few years, Jessie J returned to the UK charts last year with her slick sixth album Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time.Expect her to showcase those newer songs on this tour, alongside early hits Domino and anti-capitalist anthem Price Tag.Michael CraggJamie Woon6 to 9 April; tour starts Glasgow After becoming a critical darling in the early 2010s, British singer-songwriter Woon disappeared after 2015’s second album, Making Time.

More than a decade later, he’s back on the road in support of last October’s 3, 10, Why, When, which showcases his lithe, featherlight vocals and sonic experimentation.MCThe National Youth OrchestraBridgewater Hall, Manchester, 9 April, ; Royal Festival Hall, London, 11 April From choreography to kazoos, performances by the UK’s top orchestra for 13- to 19-year-olds often feature a surprise or two – and always fizz with energy.Their latest tour sees pPrincipal conductor Alpesh Chauhan lead the charge through emotionally epic works by Wagner, Prokoviev and Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi.Flora WillsonThe Wonder of StevieConcorde Club, Eastleigh, 10 April; touring to 11 NovemberThe ageless music of soul-funk giant Stevie Wonder is lovingly celebrated by eloquent vocalist Noel McCalla and exciting Jools Holland saxophonist Derek Nash, fronting a powerful and popular sextet that made its album debut with the repertoire in 2021.Stevie’s five-decade career will feature, with classics including Superstition and My Cherie Amour.

John FordhamCecily BrownSerpentine Gallery, London, to 6 September The Serpentine has gone mad for paintings.A gallery often associated with cutting-edge installations has opened starry shows by Doig, Hockney and now Cecily Brown.This British painter who has worked for years in New York has created brushy, expressionistic, green-dappled new works in direct response to Kensington Gardens.Henry Moore: The Shelter DrawingsHenry Moore Studio and Gardens, Perry Green, nr Bishop’s Stortford, to 25 October Huddled bodies in sepulchral shelters, humanity surviving in the depths of a bombed city: the drawings Moore made of Londoners taking refuge from Nazi air raids in underground stations are his greatest works.Echoes of Etruscan art add to the timeless intensity as he sees monumental dignity in platform sleepers.

CatwalkV&A Dundee, to 17 January 2027 Who knew the catwalk had a history? But of course it does, and this exhibition tells the tale of high fashion’s most famous ritual since its beginnings in the late 1800s.Among the designers whose glamorous or shocking catwalk shows are revisited are Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Mary Quant.Halima Cassell Tate St Ives, to 4 October This British artist who was born in Kashmir creates geometric, swirling, enticing abstract art that’s very much in the tradition of St Ives and its modern artists.In this museum close to the home and studio of Barbara Hepworth, she proves Hepworth’s spirit is alive in the art of today.Jonathan JonesA Doll’s HouseAlmeida theatre, London, to 23 May Romola Garai, who is always especially mesmerising on stage, stars in Anya Reiss’s contemporary version of Ibsen’s domestic tragedy.

When scandal threatens to wreck Nora and Torvald’s marriage, will they find a way to restore peace – and prosperity – at home? Miriam GillinsonJake Roche Soho theatre, London, 7 to 11 April The son of Shane Richie and Coleen Nolan, Roche charts how his own dreams of stardom came true – thanks to a No 1 single with his boyband Rixton – then spectacularly fell apart in a comedy musical that digs into nepo baby-dom, failure and the surreality of celebrity life.Rachel AroestiElixir festivalSadler’s Wells, London, 7 to 27 April The annual festival celebrating older dancers opens with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal – there’ll also be a long parade of dancers performing Bausch’s Nelken Line through east London’s Olympic Park.Another highlight: the brilliant 67-year-old Louise Lecavalier, once dance’s most athletic performer, who also toured with David Bowie.Lyndsey WinshipKiss of the Spider WomanCurve theatre, Leicester, to 25 April Paul Foster directs a rare revival of Kander and Ebb’s (Cabaret, Chicago) darkly charged Tony-winning musical.Set in a brutal Argentine prison, two cellmates form a fraught bond – as they fantasise about films and the dangerously seductive Spider Woman (Anna-Jane Casey).

MGMalcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair Disney+, 10 April Post-Scrubs revival, another kooky 2000s comedy makes a comeback.Reuniting most of the original cast (including Bryan Cranston), this reboot opens with the eponymous Malcolm happily estranged from his ludicrously dysfunctional family – until they suddenly decide to force him back into the fold.Twenty Twenty SixiPlayer & BBC Two, 8 April, 10pm Ian Fletcher lives! Following stints at the Olympics and the BBC, Hugh Bonneville’s managerial maven pops up again in Miami to take on the role of “director of integrity” at an unnamed international football tournament in John Morton’s ongoing satire of bureaucracy and corporate culture.The Miniature WifeNow & Sky Atlantic, 9 April, 9pm A man invents a device that drastically reduces the size of objects and accidentally turns it on his family.That’s the plot of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids – and also the premise of this new comedy-drama, starring Matthew Macfadyen as the aforementioned scientist and Elizabeth Banks as his newly tiny spouse.

The TestamentsDisney+, 8 April Ann Dowd returns as Aunt Lydia – now the head of a girls’ school in Gilead – in this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel, set 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale.Her pupils include Agnes (One Battle After Another’s Chase Infiniti), who bonds with new Canadian student Lucy as insubordination brews.RAThe House of HikmahPC, out 8 April This gorgeous narrative adventure, set during the Islamic Golden Age, is in the style of the PlayStation classic Journey and shares its composer, Austin Wintory).Lead character Maya processes the grief of losing her father by exploring a puzzle-filled realm.People of NotePS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC; out 7 April Struggling solo artist Cadence travels across urreal musical landscape recruiting members for a new band while battling harmony-hating foes.

An intriguing blend of rhythm action and role-playing adventure,Keith StuartDermot Kennedy – The Weight of the WoodsOut now Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy returns with his first album in four years,The follow-up to 2019’s Without Fear and 2022’s Sonder, both UK No 1s, it features the arena-ready sad singalong Funeral, and the slowburn Refuge, co-written with Mikky Ekko (Rihanna, Teddy Swims),Thundercat – DistractedOut now Genre-hopping LA musician Stephen Bruner continues to dive headfirst into music’s ballpit on this guest-heavy fifth album,ThunderWave is a blissed-out futuristic R&B duet with Willow, while the funk-laden I Did This to Myself, which features Flying Lotus, shimmies on to the dancefloor.

Arlo Parks – Ambiguous DesireOut now Inspired by nights out at various queer clubs in New York, and the British sounds of acts such as the Streets, the Brit-winning Parks switches things up on this third album.Mixing skittering beats, airy atmospherics and emotional catharsis, Ambiguous Desire feels primed for late-night reflection.Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, Surf Gang – Pompeii // UtilityOut now After collaborating on one another’s projects for years, rappers Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE, plus rap collective Surf Gang, come together for this 33-track double album.Songs like Minty and Earth mix impressionistic verses and shifting sonic textures that gradually appear from the haze.MCClose ReadingsPodcast This fascinating series (above) from the London Review of Books sees experts unpicking the tropes and texts that exemplify different genres, from Shakespeare’s narrative poetry to Dostoevsky and Flaubert’s realism, through fantasy fiction and beyond.

Learn Ancient GreekYouTube Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies has made this comprehensive 114-part course for learning Ancient Greek available for free on its YouTube channel.Academics Leonard Muellner and Belisi Gillespie cover accents, grammar and extensive vocabulary.Storyville: André Is an IdiotTuesday, 10pm, BBC Four & iPlayerDeeply moving and strangely hilarious, this film follows André Ricciardi’s mission to die on his own terms following a terminal bowel cancer diagnosis.Partly a PSA to encourage colonoscopies it also muses on end-of-life care.Ammar Kalia
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Rising star ‘Wreck-It Will’ Sherman has roots in US rugby’s past and eyes on its future

Will Sherman may be the future of US rugby, but his roots are in the game’s American past. The 22-year-old standout second-row forward for Anthem Rugby Carolina in Major League Rugby is the son of Wade Sherman, a member of a champion Cal Berkeley team that included Mark Bingham, who on 11 September 2001 was one of the Flight 93 passengers who fought their hijackers and kept it from reaching Washington.“There was a super old photo that my dad pulled up, and the first time I heard that story was from him,” Sherman said. “He was like, ‘That guy standing to my left is an American hero.’”Sherman “loves telling the story” of how his dad found rugby – which after all is the reason he found it too

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NCAA women’s Final Four: UCLA 51-44 Texas; South Carolina 62-48 UConn – as it happened

On paper, South Carolina would be favored in the final. They beat an unbeaten and nearly unbeatable team convincingly. But as we’ve seen tonight, when you get the very best teams together in a competitive cauldron, what bubbles to the surface remains to be seen.Until then …Last bit on Auriemma – in the postgame interviews, Auriemma said he doesn’t regret what he said in his in-game interview about the officials, noting that he had a player change her jersey after it was ripped. But that player, Sarah Strong, ripped her own shirt

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Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley have tense postgame exchange after South Carolina shock UConn in Final Four

UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley had a heated exchange on the sideline after the Gamecocks beat the undefeated Huskies 62-48 in Friday night’s semi-final of the women’s NCAA Tournament.South Carolina ended UConn’s winning streak at 54 games and secured a return trip to the national championship game.As the two met in front of the scorer’s table with 0.1 seconds left, Auriemma appeared to go to shake Staley’s hand and began yelling in her direction. Staley responded with words of her own

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County cricket: Gay makes hay on opening day to blast season’s first century

DIVISION ONESophia Gardens: Glamorgan 99-4 v YorkshireSouthampton: Hampshire v Essex 219-3Grace Road: Leicestershire 15-1 v Sussex 361Taunton: Somerset 292-6 v NottinghamshireEdgbaston: Warwickshire v Surrey 328DIVISION TWOThe County Ground: Derbyshire 391-4 v WorcestershireChester le Street: Durham 335 v Kent 50-2Lord’s: Middlesex 279-5 v GloucestershireWantage Road: Northamptonshire v Lancashire 346-7The spectre of the Ashes loomed over day one of a new Championship season, every innings, every wicket, a play in one act sent straight to the laptop of Brendon McCullum.England Lion Emilio Gay won the race to the first century of the season for Durham, a classy innings, fierce on the loose ball, and in tricky conditions at Chester-le-Street. When he was finally out, a fourth catch of the day to Kent’s Zak Crawley, he had pocketed 128 from just 140 balls.Crawley’s turn with the bat went about as well as Jamie Smith’s and Ollie Pope’s over at Edgbaston, two boundaries before falling lbw to Matthew Potts for nine.At Grace Road Tom Clark embroidered a stylish 101, as Sussex gave promoted Leicestershire a bloody nose in the morning session, racing to 155 for two by lunch

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Foakes to the rescue for Surrey as County Championship makes its earliest start

The County Championship whirred back into life on Good Friday, with 3 April its earliest start in history. By extension, Rory Burns claimed the record for its earliest dismissal, with Surrey’s captain run out 10 minutes into the day’s play at Edgbaston in a scene usually reserved for the village green.Cricket really can be a sod sometimes. All that pre-season graft, all those hours dreaming big, only to plink a drive early on, think it has beaten mid-off, and set off for the run in good faith. The throw from Warwickshire’s Ed Barnard may have been wild but Kai Smith mopped up smartly at the stumps

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Timeforshowcasing into Classic contention after Burradon success

Charlie Johnston picked up a decent bonus on top of the trainer’s share of the prize money after backing Timeforshowcasing for the Burradon Stakes at Newcastle on Friday at prices up to 25-1, and could now fast-track his filly into Classic company at either Newmarket or the Curragh next month.Timeforshowcasing was up against some promising colts and geldings in the Listed contest over a mile but travelled easily through the early stages before taking it up at the furlong pole and holding off the late challenge of Padraig Dawn by a neck.“All day I’ve been thinking, ‘what do people know that I don’t?’, because this filly worked last Thursday and I thought she was in phenomenal order,” Johnston said.“She was 6-1, went out to 10-1, then 16s and she’s won at 25-1. I hope my bookmaker gives best odds guaranteed