Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex PassOut now Widely popularised by an episode of Friends in which Ross makes an ass of himself with Isabella Rossellini, the notion of the “celebrity sex pass” completes some sort of cultural loop here as another Friends star, Jennifer Aniston, comes full circle to play a version of herself, the subject of Tom’s (Michael Cassidy) get-out-of-jail lust freebie. A romcom from David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer). The IncomerOut now This British comedy follows a pair of isolated siblings, Isla (Gayle Rankin) and Sandy (Grant O’Rourke), whose parents disappeared 30 years ago.
Having fended for themselves ever since, they aren’t eager to welcome Daniel (Domhnall Gleeson), who has been given the task of relocating them from their remote Scottish island home. Super NatureOut now Filmed on Super 8mm film via cameras sent to 40 collaborators across 25 countries and five continents, this nature documentary is the brainchild of director Ed Sayers, and edits together footage of all creatures great (including rhinos) and small (snails). Late FameOut now Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee star in Kent Jones’s adaptation of a posthumously published novella by Austrian modernist author Arthur Schnitzler.
Dafoe plays a post office worker and former poet living in downtown Manhattan who is flattered by the attention of a group of wealthy young writers who apparently want to revive his career. Catherine Bray Hilary Duff6 to 15 September; tour starts Dublin After breaking a decade-long musical hiatus with February’s Top 5 album, Luck … Or Something, the artist formerly known as Lizzie McGuire keeps up the momentum with this arena tour. Probably best to save your voice for 2003 teen-angst classic So Yesterday.
Michael Cragg Melanie MartinezThe O2, London, 11 September; touring to 12 September With the follow-up to March’s alt-pop opus Hades apparently due by the end of the year, the gloriously OTT New York curio brings her head-spinning show to the UK. Expect elaborate set pieces, skin-singeing flames and theatrical, dark-hued anthems. MC Tête-à-Tête: The Opera festivalThe Cockpit, London, 8 to 20 September It may be annual, but this showcase by the Cornwall-based new opera powerhouse is always one of a kind.
This year’s crop of novelties features Orpheus and Mary, Queen of Scots, folk horror, morris dancing and Old Norse: a typically colourful retort to anyone who thinks that opera is dead. Flora Willson Emma RawiczLondon, 5 September; Manchester, 9 September; Gateshead, 10 September The whirlwind evolution of UK sax original Emma Rawicz since her 2022 debut album at 19 now finds her leading her own exciting orchestra, working with A-list players, and gigging all over Europe. She brings the big band to Ronnie Scott’s (5 September), then follows that up with shows with her fusion-angled Inkyra quintet.
John Fordham Monika SosnowskaSouth London Gallery, London, 10 September to 22 November Ultra-minimal installation and half-tonne hanging sculptures all about architecture and its impact on everyday life by this Polish artist, who uses a whole raft of industrial materials to look at the legacies of modernism and communism. The Bayeux TapestryThe British Museum, London, 10 September to 11 JulyThe world-famous Bayeux tapestry is finally making its long-awaited journey back to England for the most hyped, hotly anticipated and sure-to-sell-out blockbuster exhibition in a decade. A Mughal SongbookThe Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 8 September to 7 MarchA fascinating, colourful, melodious look at the ornate pages of the Plowden songbook, a rare manuscript of songs from the Mughal empire, which ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from 1526 to 1857.
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