NEWCASTLE EXHIBITION
Sean Scully
Until May 28
Hatton Gallery
King's Road
Laing Art Gallery
New Bridge Street

This major retrospective of work by Sean Scully, renowned as the master of post-minimalist abstraction, revisits two seminal sites in his career — Newcastle, where he studed painting at the university, and Liverpool. On show in two galleries are works demonstrating the confidence of Scully’s earlier works and his continued fascination with stripes and the spaces in between.

hattongallery.org.uk/laingartgallery.org.uk

LONDON DANCE
Balletboyz: 14 Days
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, EC1
April 26-28

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After its premiere in the autumn of last year, BalletBoyz return with this unique project — four pieces created in just 14 days with choreographers Javier de Frutos, Craig Revel Horwood, Ivan Perez and Christopher Wheeldon. With music by Scott Walker, Charlotte Harding, Joby Talbot and Keaton Henson, they've created a series of works playing with the concept of balance and imbalance, described by one critic as “a paradox of muscular impact and weightless flight” never been seen before on stage.

sadlerswells.com

LONDON MUSICAL
Caroline, Or Change
Hampstead Theatre
Eton Avenue, NW3
Until April 21

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With Donald Trump in the White House and protest in the air, this 2003 musical by Tony Kushner and the composer Jeanine Tesori gets a timely revival. Inspired in part by Kushner’s own boyhood, it’s an almost entirely sung-through story of race, religion and the grotesque economics of exploitation starring the great Sharon D Clarke (pictured). Recommended.

hampsteadtheatre.com

STAFFORD/TOURING COMEDY
Grumpy Old Women to the Rescue
Gatehouse Theatre
Eastgate Street
March 31

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Fed up with flogging their guts out and always having to be in charge, the Grumpy Old Women — Jenny Eclair, Dillie Keane and Lizzie Roper — have put their knobbly old feet up in retirement, free at last to practise their extreme colouring-in, ukelele orchestra and novelty fudge- making. But with the world in a bigger mess than ever before, is there anything that can tempt them off their backsides to unleash their superpowers and once more come to the rescue? Ninety minutes of “full-fat, batteries included” comedy promised. Touring until end of June.

grumpyoldwomenlive.com