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

Showing now

Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears at the White Cube, London SE1 (whitecube.com). Colossal nude statues and “raw, expressive” paintings feature alongside films and photographs in this “soul-searching show” of new works (Guardian). Ends 7 April.

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The exuberant seven-piece band Police Dog Hogan are taking their brand of country, pop, folk and bluegrass on the road for two footstomping gigs. Cambridge Junction on 2 March and O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London W12, on 15 March (policedoghogan.com).

Matthew Broderick is making his West End debut as a tormented astronomer in The Starry Messenger by Kenneth Lonergan, the writer/ director of Manchester by the Sea. 16 May10 August, Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (starrymessengerplay.com).

There are several events already booking at the Hay Festival, including a talk by Booker winner Anna Burns about her novel Milkman, and the international lawyer Philippe Sands in conversation with the geographer and author Jared Diamond. 23 May-2 June, Hay-on-wye, Wales (hayfestival.com).

Just out in paperback

Death Notice by Zhou Haohui (Head of Zeus £8.99). The first in a trilogy that is China’s bestselling crime series ever, it features a cat and mouse game between police and a serial killer who “crowdsources” victims (Sunday Times).