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Summer arts preview 2017

Guardian critics pick the best in UK arts and entertainment to look forward to this season

  • Summer 2017's dance highlights

    The standout dance of summer 2017

    Tap thunders into new territory, 25 performers make 10,000 moves, Lady Macbeth is laid bare and a young boy goes on a journey through gender transition
  • Hellblade - Senua’s Sacrifice – PC, PS4

    Summer 2017's best video games: from Uncharted to Splatoon 2 and Tacoma

  • Summer arts preview 2017

    Summer 2017's finest art, design and photography

  • From left: A Trip to the Moon; Django Bates; Spooky Men’s Chorale; Chineke! Orchestra; Songhoy Blues.

    The top classical, world, folk and jazz of summer 2017

    Comedy choirs, desert rock, a trip to the moon and a musical tour of Hull are the standout sounds of the season. Plus Django Bates jazzes up Sgt Pepper
  • Simon Stephens

    Fatherland: look back in anger, love and pride

  • Clockwise from top left … Ink; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Nina Hoss; Girl from the North Country; and The Tempest.

    Summer 2017's essential theatre: from the rise of Murdoch's Sun to Dylan's dustbowl blues

  • ‘Would it get financed at all?’ … Okja.

    'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig

  • Composite: Film summer preview 2017: It Comes At Night, The Square, Atomic Blonde, Rough Night and Okja

    Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years

  • Clockwise from Top Left: ELO / PJ HARVEY / LADY LESHURR / LANA DEL RAY / ENIMEN

    Summer 2017's hottest pop: with Guns N’ Roses, Nas, Haim, KLF, Eminem and PJ Harvey

    Haim ride a sun-kissed wave, MIA raves into Meltdown, Axl Rose does the unthinkable, PJ Harvey pulls on her feathers, Jarvis Cocker reimagines Hollywood – and the KLF write a book
  • Composite: Comedy summer preview 2017: Rob Delaney, Sara Pascoe, Bourgeois & Maurice, Sam Simmonds and Penn & Teller

    The must-see standup of summer 2017: Daniel Kitson, Sara Pascoe, Rob Delaney and more

    The star of Catastrophe brings carnality, the elusive Kitson attempts to ‘alter language’, Sara Pascoe goes dating, while Hannah Gadsby goes out with a bang
  • Offred and Ofglen in The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Hate crimes, honour killings and FGM: how The Handmaid's Tale captures our age of fear

  • Look here … from left: Glow, Poldark, Vlogglebox, Game of Thrones and The Tick.

    The unmissable TV shows of summer 2017

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