1. The Stay At Home Festival

If laughter is the best medicine, good news: a bunch of top comics have banded together to launch this free online festival, hosted by Robin Ince. Live-streamed highlights include appearances from Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss (Monday), Jo Brand (Wednesday) and Sara Pascoe (Thursday), as well as Ince's co-star from Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, physicist Brian Cox (Tuesday). Tristram Fane Saunders

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Hastened to Curzon Home Cinema where it can be eagerly lapped up, this heady romantic drama, set in Tbilisi, is about the sexual awakening of an ambitious young Georgian dancer, played in a ferociously lithe acting debut by Levan Gelbakhiani. His desire for a charismatic rival drives a story that never goes quite where you expect, and the photography is radiantly lovely.Tim Robey

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Childrens author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, whose books Lost & Found; Stuck are treasured classics for bedtime reading, has launched #stayathomestorytime on his Instagram Stories. At 6pm UK time each day he will read aloud one of his books and talk about its making. Videos will be posted on his website afterward and children can ask Jeffers questions about each book via his Facebook page. We are all at home, but none of us are alone. Lets be bored together, he says.Lucy Davies

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This gorgeously produced book was published to accompany the new Tate exhibition and its arguably better than being there. Many of Beardsleys most beautiful black-and-white drawings were for The Yellow Book, the naughty fin de siecle magazine that published Oscar Wilde. By reproducing them in book form, for up-close private perusal, the Tate has put them back where they belong.TFS

Published by Tate Publications; tate.org.uk

This excellent freeview platform will be streaming two productions of works by Mozart this coming week: on Tuesday, Lucio Silla from Brussels's Thtre de la Monnaie featuring the excellent British tenor Jeremy Ovenden in the title role; and on Friday Le Nozze di Figaro in John Cox's delightfully traditional staging from Garsington Opera. Both then remain available on demand for six months.Rupert Christiansen

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This marvellously imaginative reworking of the 1841 Romantic masterpiece made a strong impression upon its unveiling in 2016, since when it has continued to mature like a robust burgundy. It sets the doomed central romance (originally playing out in the Rhineland of the Middle Ages) amid a tragically 21st-century-feeling migrant crisis, and boasts thanks to English National Ballets ever-marvellous corps the most genuinely terrifying army of spectres around.Mark Monahan

Available on DVD from Opus Arte; opusarte.com

On his sixth albu, Baxter Dury, the talented son of Ian Dury,mixes spoken word and slinky grooves in a series of surrealist late-night vignettes. Dury essays the provocative ambiguity of a Pinteresque lounge lizard prone to evasive circumlocution and parodic gangsterism, all set to gorgeous bass heavy dub beats conjuring theEighties hits ofGrace Jones.Neil McCormick

Released by Heavenly Recordings; heavenlyemporium.com

The Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire, two choruses and heroic-voiced Bryan Hemel join forces to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Berliozs death with his immense Requiem. Gustavo Dudamel conducted this performance at Notre-Dame Cathedral.Ivan Hewett

Sky Arts, Sunday March 22, 10.00am 12.00pm; sky.com

Stephen Sondheim turns 90 this weekend, so its only right and proper to hit "play" on his witty and wise (if inclined to the didactic) fairy-tale mash-up from 1986, lovingly brought to arboreal, al fresco life at Regents Park Open Air Theatre in 2010 by Timothy Sheader to mark his 80th. Listen out for Judi Dench as the (puppeteered) giant and hug close the newly poignant sentiments of the final song: No One is Alone.Dominic Cavendish

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Released in cinemas just weeks ago, Alla Kovgans film about Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) is now available to watch on demand. Blending original footage of him both conversation and action, it is also packed with typically otherworldly performances by his celebrated Dance Company, and makes for a fascinating and often beautiful voyage through the mind and work of one of dances great iconoclasts.MM

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