Opening this week
THE PREMIERE
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Odeon Leicester Square, WC2
TONIGHT
Andrew Garfield makes his debut as Peter Parker, with on- and off-screen flame Emma Stone and new supervillain Rhys Ifans joining him on the red carpet.
THE OPERA
Coliseum, WC2
TOMORROW
Good and evil battle it out in David Alden’s new production of Britten’s all-male opera, with Benedict Nelson in the spotlight.
THE DANCE
Greenwich Borough Hall, SE10
THURSDAY
Handspring Puppet Company, who put Warhorse’s Joey on the stage, returns to bring a dance theatre adaptation of Ted Hughes’s poem to life.
THE FESTIVAL
LONDON 2012
Various locations
THURSDAY
After months of waiting, the cultural extravaganza finally kicks off — if you don’t know what it’s all about yet, you certainly will by the end of the week.
THE FIRST NIGHTS
National, Lyttelton, SE1
TOMORROW
Stephen Beresford has a heavyweight cast (Julie Walters, right, Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory) for the premiere of his play about a feisty high-society dropout and her wayward offspring.
THE GIG
Albert Hall, SW7
TOMORROW
The American country-pop sweetheart, who recently made the news for her public shock-horror support of gay marriage, plays her first UK show.
