From The Sheep Detectives to Rivals: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead | Culture

Going out: Cinema

The Sheep Detectives
Out now
Few can claim a writing career as varied as Craig Mazin, creator of TV’s Chernobyl, co-writer of several Scary Movie and The Hangover films, and co-creator of The Last of Us. Here, he turns his hand to a comedy-mystery about sheep, starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson. Adapted from a novel by Leonie Swann.

Kokuho
Out now
Two-time Japan Academy film prize best director winner Lee Sang-il directs this prestige adaptation of Shuichi Yoshida’s novel. It holds the record for the highest-grossing Japanese live-action release ever in Japan – an impressive feat for a nearly three-hour-long period drama set across five decades in the kabuki theatre world.

Mortal Kombat II
Out now
Fatality! For a generation of gamers, the words Mortal Kombat will always have a nostalgic quality, taking us back to a time of parent-baiting video game violence. This sequel picks up where the 2021 reboot left off, with Karl Urban joining the returning cast members Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Ludi Lin in Earthrealm.

Romería
Out now
Director Carla Simón returns with the tale of Marina (Llúcia Garcia), an 18-year-old orphaned as a child, who must track down her extended family to help fill in university funding forms, leading to encounters with an array of estranged aunts, uncles and cousins. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Rüfüs Du Sol
London, 13 May; Dublin, 15 May
Despite rarely troubling the UK charts, the Australian dance trio have become a streaming goliath, with 2016’s Innerbloom closing in on half a billion streams on Spotify alone. Hence these two massive arena shows, part of the tour for Grammy-nominated fifth album Inhale/Exhale. Michael Cragg

Wesley Joseph
Manchester, 12 May; London, 13 May; Birmingham, 14 May
Walsall-raised genre polymath Wesley Joseph’s debut album, Forever Ends Someday, channels soul, sparse electronica and creeping trip-hop, all anchored by his widescreen lyricism. Its highlights will be showcased at these three shows. MC

The Choral Pilgrimage 2026
Old Royal Naval College, London, 12 May; touring to 17 October
Harry Christophers and his choir the Sixteen’s annual tour has become a highlight of the choral year. The programme this time combines music by two Spanish Renaissance composers with modern works by Kerensa Briggs and James MacMillan. Flora Willson

Andy Sheppard
Stoller Hall, Manchester, 15 May
The first night of the Manchester jazz festival (15 to 24 May) includes UK sax legend Andy Sheppard, a personification of the event’s creative view of jazz traditions. Sheppard brings longtime associates in pianist Rita Marcotulli and bassist Michel Benita. John Fordham

Going out: Art

Henry Moore
Kew Gardens, London, 9 May to 31 January 2027
Kew and Henry Moore: a marriage so perfect the only surprise is that it’s taken this long for anyone to make it happen. And they’ve gone all out, with 30 of Moore’s monumental sculptures dotted around the place in the largest ever presentation of outdoor works by the English modernist.

Parham Ghalamdar
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, 13 May to 1 August
Broken ceramic airframes, melted glass, aluminium sheets: Parham Ghalamdar’s show at Blenheim Walk is full of ruins and wreckage. The Iranian’s work is meant to be an exploration of folklore, theology, violence and cosmology, a post-apocalyptic exploration of life after war.

Photo London
Kensington Olympia, London, 14 to 16 May
The UK’s leading photography fair returns for its 11th year, this time making its debut at Olympia after a decade at Somerset House. This year’s edition will feature the usual major international photography galleries, but it’s the Discovery section – with its focus on young galleries and artists operating outside the mainstream – where you’ll find the most interesting stuff.

Zineb Sedira
Tate Britain, London, 13 May to 17 January 2027
The Tate Britain commission is an intimidating prospect. Past artists have filled the gallery’s neoclassical central hall with a war plane, piles of trash, people dressed like squashes and even a whole semi-detached house. Franco-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira is next to take up the challenge, with a new multi-sensory installation exploring ideas of diaspora, identity and the history of cinema. Eddy Frankel

Going out: Stage

Sharon Wanjohi
Soho theatre, London, 13 to 16 May
Channelling both Trisha Goddard and Instagram wellness influencers, the east London comedian’s self-help satire In the House proffers fittingly ridiculous advice for young people in a world where self-optimisation reigns and capitalism’s promises are crumbling fast. Rachel Aroesti

Breakin’ Convention
Canterbury, 9 May; Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 May; Nottingham, 15 & 16 May; touring to 6 June
The long-running London hip-hop dance festival heads out on a national tour. Local acts join the lineup at each venue, alongside the Olivier award-winning Traplord by Ivan Michael Blackstock, and female dance collective Femme Fatale. Lyndsey Winship

Care
Young Vic, London, 11 May to 11 July
Alexander Zeldin’s plays are always exquisitely observed and deeply compassionate affairs. This UK premiere is about the ripple effect of a grandmother’s fall, her relocation to a care home – and the surprising riches she discovers there. Miriam Gillinson

The Psychic
York Theatre Royal, to 23 May
Following the success of Ghost Stories, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman are back with another supernatural spookfest. It’s about a TV psychic who is branded a charlatan and then caught up in a disturbing seance. MG