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Artist Sarah Lucas. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A big year for Sarah Lucas, with a solo show at Tate Britain (26 September to 14
January 2024), featuring her brash, bold and provocative art all the way from the YBA
stuffed-figure era to the sculptures and photographs of the present day. And even
bigger, in a sense, is the show Lucas is curating for Firstsite Colchester (11 February to
18 June), abruptly titled Big Woman. One in the eye for an ageist, male-centred world,
this anthology features works by leading female artists, including Angela Bulloch, Polly
Morgan, Georgina Starr, Gillian Wearing and Lucas herself. Laura Cumming

Theatre

Musicals on stage

Witney White (left) and Beverley Knight in Sylvia at the Old Vic, London, in 2018, when it was a
work in progress. Photograph: Manuel Harlan

The year sees a bounty of theatrical song. In January, the new hip-hop musical Sylvia,
celebrating the suffragette movement and the life of Sylvia Pankhurst, will open at
London’s Old Vic, starring Beverley Knight and Sharon Rose. Nicholas Hytner’s
production of Guys and Dolls is due to rock the boat in March at the Bridge in London,
where seats will be wrapped around the action so that the audience is transported from
Manhattan sidewalks to Havana bars. It is spiffing news that Operation Mincemeat,