With survivors and others affected still fighting for justice, Darkling is a story that must be remembered.

It’s really difficult to write about climate change for the theatre: focus on the global crisis and a play will lack personal drama; spotlight the personal and you risk losing the big picture.

Advance sales for the new Frida Kahlo exhibition topped 41,000, a Tate Modern record. At £25 a pop, it will be a commercial bonanza.

It’s street versus home in Ish, a coming of age story about a Muslim British Asian in the Bedfordshire town of Luton.

For a South Asian treat  and an eyeful of images go now to Christie’s, which is showing a wonderful, eclectic selection of paintings, sculptures and videos from the region.

Life Support is a doctors’-eye-view of the Israeli attack on Gaza. And what a visceral, appalling view it is.

‘This film will fry your brain’, proclaims a new documentary, Planet Israel.

I was in two minds about the new biopic of Nigerian-British photographer Misan Harriman — exciting shots of political demonstrations but is it a little too adulatory? —  until I read about right-wing cultural attacks on him.

What a tragically sad title for Itai Erdal’s monologue at the Finborough Theatre: Soldiers of Tomorrow.

What has Florence Nightingale got to do with the post-World War Two international development aid industry?

Theatre should make you think, but the Arcola is about to ask audiences to consider a particularly awkward and painful question: if you support international aid, do you really want to change the world — or do you just like the idea of helping?

Forget the academic jargon that infests the new blockbuster exhibition on Panafricanism at the Barbican and enjoy the fighting spirit, creativity, bite, diversity, drama and humour on show.

I felt sure that A Useful Ghost  - a Thai love story about vacuum cleaners - was a shoo-in for the most unusual film of the year. Until I saw Hen.

Is anti-Zionism antisemitic? If you think so, or perhaps have been accused of being antisemitic for supporting Palestinian protesters. Kaddish is for you.

Instead of the grimacing Maori warrior or dancer you might expect at Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific, you are confronted at the exhibition entrance by a pot-bellied figure of a Polynesian security guard.

One of the glories of London’s mega-galleries and museums is their willingness to put on exhibitions about important subjects that are of interest to only a few people.

A Useful Ghost is almost certainly the strangest film you will see this year.

The set-up is disarmingly simple: “Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian elections crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.”

Museum of Edible Earth is, of course, a tasting exhibition.