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

Last chance

Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at the British Museum, London WC1 (020-7323 8181). This “marvellous exhibition” shows Rodin’s sculptures, including The Kiss and The Thinker, alongside the Parthenon Marbles that the artist so revered (Guardian). Ends 29 July.

Showing now

Queens of the Coal Age at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (0161-833 9833). This “politically impassioned” play by Maxine Peake tells the true story of four women who occupied a Merseyside colliery (Times). Until 28 July; then 7-29 September, New Vic, Newcastleunder-lyme (01782-717962.

Jane Bown: The Observer at Proud Central, London WC2 (020-7839 4942). Retrospective of the late, great photojournalist Jane Bown, who captured everything from postwar Britain to the rise of celebrity culture. Ends 12 August.

Book now

Sam Shepard’s True West is getting a starry revival. Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn will star as the brothers in this blackly comic tale of sibling rivalry. 23 November-16 February 2019, Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2 (0330-333 4814).

Just out in paperback

Lullaby by Leïla Slimani (Faber £8.99). In her tense “psycho-thriller” about a Parisian couple whose children are battered to death by their nanny, Slimani “illuminates the darkest fears of a great many parents” (Sunday Times).