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Mail critics’ pick of the week’s must-see events

ON STAGE THE STEPMOTHER

OPHELIA LOVIBOND (right) stars in Githa Sowerby’s 1924 drama about a young woman forced to reassess her marriage to an older man after her stepdaughter comes to her looking for help. Will Keen plays the shady husband in Richard Eyre’s production of the play by the feminist writer best known for her drama about a wealthy industrialist, Rutherford & Son.

Previewing now; opens Thursday, Minerva Theatre, Chichester (01243 781312; cft.org.uk). PATRICK MARMION

ON DISPLAY TRUE TO LIFE

THIS brilliant exhibition is a smack in the eye for anyone who says 20thcentury art had to go towards abstraction. It is a towering lineup of masterpieces by artists from Mary Adshead to Harold Williamson.

True To Life: British Realist Painting In The 1920s & 1930s, runs till October 29 at the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Edinburgh; nationalgalleries.org ROBIN SIMON

ON AIR OKLAHOMA!

OKLAHOMA! added fresh scope to the Broadway musical when it was first staged in 1943. The first collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, it is revived at the Albert Hall tonight as conductor John Wilson (pictured) brings his orchestra to the Proms.

Radio 3 broadcasts live from 7.30pm, with TV coverage from 8pm on BBC4 (bbc.co.uk/proms). ADRIAN THRILLS

ON TV QUACKS

THIS bloodthirsty new comedy from the writer of Rev stars Rory Kinnear (right) as a celebrated Victorian surgeon, slicing and dicing in front of an audience who think it ‘more fun than Madame Tussauds’. Rupert Everett and Matthew Baynton also appear. Tuesday, 10pm, BBC2. SIMONE ANDREWS