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

Showing now

My Beautiful Circus at Oxford University Parks, Oxford (www.giffordscircus.com). Retrochic Giffords Circus returns with a show that includes startling acrobatics, performing turkeys and a troupe of dachshunds. Until 25 June; then Chiswick House, London W4, 28 June-9 July, and Windsor and on until 30 September.

Pressure at the Ambassadors Theatre, London WC2 (020-7395 5405). David Haig stars in his own “gripping” play about the Scottish meteorologist, James Stagg, who persuaded Eisenhower to postpone the D-day landings (Times). Ends 1 September.

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The wonderfully acerbic American singersongwriter John Grant is touring his forthcoming album: Symphony Hall, Birmingham (0121-780 3333) on 16 August; then Bangor, Edinburgh, and on (www.johngrantmusic.com).

A musical version of Alison Bechdel’s graphic coming-of-age memoir Fun Home – a multiple Tony Award-winning hit on Broadway – is opening here. “Musical theatre at its best” (Huffington Post). 18 June-1 September, Young Vic, London SE1 (www.youngvic.org).

Just out in paperback

Pale Rider by Laura Spinney (Vintage £10.99). An account of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic could be dreary, but Spinney focuses on both the people and the quack cures. “I’ve seldom had so much fun reading about people dying” (Times).