Sting: more musically talented than Garry Kasparov. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features Finally, you’ll be impossibly grateful to learn that Sting has thrown you a bone, in the form of an interview with the New York Times. As is traditional in such cases, we must congratulate the interviewer... 

Rob Bryden and Steve Coogan play food critics in The Trip, Michael Winterbottom’s new sitcom for BBC2. Photograph: BBC/Revolution Michael Winterbottom, the British film director who made Welcome to Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People – and was criticised for his controversial 9 Songs... 

Stewart Lee will be at The Big Comedy Caravan. The Big Comedy Campervan, Scarborough Like swallows, stand-ups migrate once a year. But in their case they go north, for the annual trade fair, meat market and genuine cultural mecca that is the Edinburgh festival fringe. However, a select few... 

Salute to Sondheim … Simon Russell Beale, Judi Dench and Bryn Terfel at Prom 19. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Ever since the mid 1990s Stephen Sondheim’s songs have been heard more or less regularly at the Proms but never before has a whole concert been devoted to his work. Sondheim’s... 

Salute to Sondheim … Simon Russell Beale, Judi Dench and Bryn Terfel at Prom 19. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Ever since the mid 1990s Stephen Sondheim’s songs have been heard more or less regularly at the Proms but never before has a whole concert been devoted to his work. Sondheim’s...