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

Showing now

Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1 (020-7401 9919). This new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy stars André Holland, who is best known for the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, in the title role and Mark Rylance as Iago. Ends 13 October.

Blue Electric at Rada Studios, London WC1 (020-7908 4800). A one-off performance, this new opera is a collaboration between the composer Tom Smail and the author Alba Arikha. Based on Arikha’s acclaimed memoir, it follows a teenage girl in 1980s Paris. 7 August.

Following a £26m overhaul, the excellent RAF Museum, London NW9 (020-8205 2266), has reopened its galleries to mark the force’s 100th anniversary. Exhibits in its “captivating” free centenary exhibition range from a nuclear missile to a Second World War pilot’s lucky teddy bear (Sunday Telegraph).

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The Lovely Bones, Bryony Lavery’s stage adaptation of Alice Sebold’s bestselling novel will get its world premiere in Northampton before going on tour. 1-22 September, Royal & Derngate, Northampton (01604-624811), then Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham and Ipswich.

Just out in paperback

One Hot Summer by Rosemary Ashton (Yale £10.99). Ashton’s “compelling” micro-history of the sweltering summer of 1858 uses Dickens, Darwin and Disraeli to create a snapshot of London at the time (Daily Telegraph).