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Tony Clayton-Lea previews the best of Madrid, London and New York

Tony Clayton-Leapreviews the best of Madrid, London and New York

MADRID

Culture Festival

The art of Madrid is opened up for all to see during Las Noches Blancas (white nights), when hundreds of venues and participants engage publicly with the city's art. September 13th. www.esmadrid.com/en.

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Rock

Coldplay (below) bring their hugely-successful new album (Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends) and stage show to Spain. September 7th. Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. www.coldplay.com.

Theatre

Well-known playwright and theatre director Tomaz Pandur reimagines the plays Dangerous Liaisons and Quartet in a new work titled Barroco. September 10th to 27th. Teatro Fernán Gómez. www.esmadrid.com/teatrofernangomez.

LONDON

Music Theatre

Former Kinks frontman, Ray Davies, makes his theatrical debut in Come Dancing at the Ilford Palais, a musical about one of the East End's most popular venues of the 1950s. September 13th to October 25th. Theatre Royal, Stratford. www.stratfordeast.com. Portraits

Sporting Lives: Contemporary Portraits of Athletes and Olympians is timed to coincide with the formal handover of the Olympic flag to London. Until December 31st. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place. www.npg.org.uk.

NEW YORK

Book Festival

The third Brooklyn Book Festival takes place in the New York neighbourhood in the Borough Hall and Plaza, and features collectors, readers and speakers. September 14th. www.brooklynbook.festival.org.

Exhibition

Dali: Painting and Film features the surrealist's collaborations with film-makers such as Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street. Until September 15th. www.moma.org.