The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading

Last chance

Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix Theatre, London WC2 (0844-871 7627). This exuberant production of the musical, starring the Australian comedian Rebel Wilson as Miss Adelaide, is “a joy” (The Stage). Wilson’s run ends on 21 August; show ends on 29 October.

Showing now

Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of

Nature at the Natural History Museum, London SW7 (020-7942 5000). This “compelling” exhibition explains how our planet blossomed with colour 500 million years ago, after the first animals developed eyes (London Evening Standard). Ends 6 November.

Book now

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, about the 17th century Salem witch-hunts, will be performed by Cube Essential Theatre at Cornwall’s open-air Minack Theatre, perched on cliffs overlooking the Atlantic. 12-16 September (www.minack.com).

Tina Brown – whose journalistic achievements include editing The New Yorker and founding The Daily Beast – will be in conversation with novelist Kathy Lette at London’s Royal Institution. The talk will focus on media, politics and Brown’s “Women in the World” initiative. 27 September (www.5x15.com).

Just out in paperback

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Virago £8.99). Atwood’s “sinister” 15th novel, about an impoverished couple who sign away their freedom for a better life, “is as gripping as it is chilling” (Sunday Times).