Finborough Theatre, London

National Theatre, London

New End, London

Not many people could charm the nation on Fame Academy and earn plaudits for serious work at Bristol Old Vic and the National. Now the next stop for Kwame Kwei-Armah is... a pop album

The son of an Austrian banker who collaborated with the Nazis, and a Jewish mother who was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust, Harry Mulisch grew up in the Netherlands. He had ambitions to be a scientist, but became a writer and has used his fiction…

The café marron tree faced extinction until a specialist team from Kew stepped in. Alok Jha finds out how