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Sting
Out now
When lonely 12-year-old New Yorker Charlotte decides to nurture a spider that emerges from an
egg that falls from the sky, it’s all fun and games – until it isn’t. Fans of Little Shop of Horrors
might be able to guess the rough trajectory of subsequent events – Charlotte’s Web this
isn’t. Catherine Bray
Going out: Gigs
Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi
Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham, 6 June
Harpists are rare in jazz, but one of the most revered was Alice Coltrane, wife of jazz revolutionary
John. Polish-Ukrainian harp virtuoso Alina Bzhezhinska and Coltrane-esque saxophonist Tony
Kofi recreate the couple’s magic. John Fordham
Blond Eckbert
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 7 June
Judith Weir is a featured composer at this summer’s Aldeburgh festival, which opens with a new
production of her third full-length opera, first seen at English National Opera in 1994, and based
on a short story by 18th-century German writer Ludwig Tieck. Robin Norton-Hale directs for
English Touring Opera, with Simon Wallfisch as Eckbert and Flora McIntosh as his wife
Berthe. Andrew Clements
LA Priest
1 to 8 June; tour starts Salford
Having recorded 2023’s Fase Luna in a South American jungle, former Late of the Pier frontman
