- Visionary Romanian director Silviu Purcarete rarely visits Britain but the Bath Shakespeare festival has persuaded him over. He brings his love of spectacle and riot to Twelfth Night, at the Theatre Royal, Bath, from 14th March.
- Pip Hall has carved poems by Meg Peacocke into stone, and secreted them on paths along the River Eden. Poetry Path is part of the Words by the Water festival, centred on the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, from 10th March.
- The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, has built a desk-sized plinth to display the cluster of sculptures Freud kept in his study, arranged as if they were his captive audience. "Freud's Sculpture" is on now.
- Serious scholarship and spirited song have marked out early music group Joglaresa. They perform Magdalena, their portrait of Mary Magdalene in song, at the King's Hall, Newcastle, on 4th March.
- Soprano Felicity Lott and baritone Thomas Allen sing their way from Mendelssohn through Mozart to Sondheim in Duets and Showstoppers at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, on 4th March.
- Anne Karpf and Helena Kennedy reinvestigate the ten commandments in Taking (on) the Tablets at the Royal National Hotel, London, on 5th March, as part of Jewish book week.
