KINGSTON MUSIC
Grace Petrie And David Rovics
The Cricketers
Fairfield South
April 25
Two of the biggest names in radical folk music, both much admired by this paper’s reviewers, come together for this special evening at The Cricketers. US singer-songwriter David Rovics performs alongside Leicester-based singer-songwriter Grace Petrie, best known for her LGBT liberation anthem Farewell To Welfare. Also on the bill are Kingston local Tim OT, Stew Simpson and James Lamb. At a mere fiver, how can you miss if you’re in this neck of the woods?
www.songsfrombelow.net

LONDON EXHIBITION
Lynn Chadwick Retrospectives
Blain Southern
Hanover Square, W1
May 1-June 28
This retrospective features a range of seminal bronzes by Lynn Chadwick from the 1950s and 1960s, among them Teddy Boy & Girl — one of the works that earned Chadwick the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1956 – as well as the monumental Stranger III (1959, pictured). These, along with Beast XVI (1959), Black Beast (1960) and Moon of Alabama (1957) illustrate Chadwick’s interest in human and animal forms and the mainstay of his artistic practice — the blurring the lines between figuration and abstraction. Recommended.
www.blainsouthern.com

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON THEATRE
The Roaring Girl
Swan Theatre, Waterside
Until September 30
Sebastian has a problem. He’s in love with a girl but his father won’t agree to their marriage. In desperation he turns to the one person who can help him, the fearless and feisty “roaring girl” Moll Cutpurse. In this version of  Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s Jacobean comedy, London is a city fuelled by greed and desire and the charismatic, cross-dressing heroine Moll (Lisa Dilllon, pictured) has the world wrapped around her little finger. As she cuts a joyously independent path through the underhand scheming and petty vendettas of the London underworld, Moll proves more than a match for any man. Should be well worth seeking out.
www.rsc.org.uk

LONDON MUSIC
Raga To Reggae On The Road
Garratt Lane, SW18
May 3-5
Produced by Tara Arts, Raga To Reggae On The Road takes to the bars, beer gardens and streets over the bank holiday weekend with three diverse world music concerts, targeted at all ages, on offer. British-Bengali band Khiyo, above, including Sohini Alam play a local pub, there’s a club performance of virtuoso guitar from Guiliano Modarelli who plays jazz with strains of classical Indian, Arabic and Flamenco and Javier Camilio and Friends perform Cuban and Latin-American beats on a local estate. The performance will climax with Holi, a popular Indian tradition where there will be a colour festival with explosions of powder paint. And it’s all free.
www.tara-arts.com